Hydraulic Press
name: label: maker
content: E. S. Ritchie & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: When new, this “improved” hydraulic press cost a whopping $40. The "E. S. RITCHIE & SONS / BOSTON" inscription indicates a date in the second half of the nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. S. Ritchie & Sons, <i>Ritchie’s Catalogue of Physical Instruments</i> (Boston, 1878), p. 20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jay A. Lewis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0084.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0084
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0084.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hydraulic press
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35.9 cm x 43.8 cm x 15 cm; 14 1/8 in x 17 1/4 in x 5 29/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/8 in x 6 in x 18 1/8 in; 35.8775 cm x 15.24 cm x 46.0375 cm