Vacuum Pump
date: label: date made
content: 1940s
label: date made
content: 1920's
name: label: maker
content: Bendix Aviation Corporation. Eclipse-Pioneer Division
notes: label: Description
content: A tag here reads in part “VACUUM PUMP / TYPE B-11A-EA” and “ECLIPSE AVIATION / DIVISION OF / BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION / BENDIX, N.J. MADE IN U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Vincent Hugo Bendix (1881-1945), inventor and industrialist, established the Bendix Corp. in Chicago in 1914. The firm was restructured as Bendix Aviation in 1929 and, in 1937, it announced plans for a large factory in Bendix, N.J. (a town formerly known as Teterboro).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Teterboro
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0837.03
label: accession number
content: 1986.0837
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0837.03
label: serial number
content: B-15868
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vacuum pump
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in; 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in; 23.495 cm x 26.67 cm x 22.225 cm