Drug Mill
date: label: Date made
content: After 1873
name: label: Inventor
content: Baker, John G.
label: maker
content: Enterprise Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Drug mill devised by John G. Baker (1833-1901), a prolific inventor, vice president of the Enterprise Manufacturing Co., and recipient of the John Scott Legacy Medal. An inscription on the knob reads “Pat. Oct 21, '73.” An inscription on the handle reads “The Enterprise MFG. Co. Philadelphia.”
label: Description
content: Ref: John G. Baker, “Improvement in Grinding-Mills,” U.S. Patent 143.867 (Oct. 21, 1873), assigned to The Enterprise Manufacturing Company.
label: Description
content: “John G. Baker Passes Away,” American Artisan and Hardware Record (Dec. 14, 1901): 20.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ferris State College, School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.312142.119
label: catalog number
content: 312142.119
label: accession number
content: 312142
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drug mill
label: Other Terms
content: Drug Mill; Manufacturing And Dispensing Equipment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)