Electromagnetic Machine
date: label: Date made
content: 1880 - 1889
name: label: maker
content: F. G. Otto & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: The paper label in the lid of the wooden box reads in part: “Dr. Drescher’s Pocket Electro-Magnetic Machine No. 1.” And “Manufactured by / F. G. OTTO & SONS / Sole Proprietors of / Dr. Drescher’s / Patent Electro-Magnetic Apparatus.” Another label reads “OTTO FLEMING / 720 ARCH ST. / PHILADELPHIA.” Luis Drescher was a physician in New York with several patents to his name. F. G. Otto & Sons began in business as such in New York in 1875, making and selling surgical and other medical apparatus
label: Description
content: Ref: “Galvanic Battery for Doctors,” Scientific American (Sept. 4, 1852), p. 404.
label: Description
content: Luis Drescher, "Electro-Magnetic Machine," U.S. Patent 221,291 (November 4, 1879).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.031
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.031
label: catalog number
content: M-14161
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapy coll object
label: Object Name
content: battery, faradic current
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mercury bisulphate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cord, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 6 in x 3 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 15.24 cm x 9.525 cm