Air Pump
date: label: date made
content: 1854
name: label: maker
content: Chamberlain, Nathan B.
notes: label: Description
content: Benjamin Wofford (1780-1850), a resident of Spartanburg, S.C., bequeathed $100,000 to “establish a college of literary, classical and scientific education to be located in my native district and to be under the control of the Methodist Church of my native state.” When Wofford College opened in 1854, Prof. Warren DuPre was sent north to acquire scientific apparatus, and probably bought this large lever-action air pump from N. B. Chamberlain in Boston at that time. Chamberlain advertised it as an “American” air pump, acknowledging, however, that it was based on the design of John Leslie (1766-1832), a professor in Edinburgh.
label: Description
content: Ref: N. B. Chamberlain, <i>Price Catalogue and Description of Philosophical Apparatus</i> (Boston, n.d.), p. 6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Wofford College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325962
label: accession number
content: 256314
label: catalog number
content: 325962
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Air Pump
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 in x 18 in x 54 in; 106.68 cm x 45.72 cm x 137.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 18 in x 43 in; 76.2 cm x 45.72 cm x 109.22 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 53 1/2 in x 42 in x 17 5/8 in; 135.89 cm x 106.68 cm x 44.7675 cm