Boiler tube fork tool
name: label: maker
content: Ingersoll Rand
notes: label: Description
content: This tool would have been used for fitting and altering boiler tubes. One end is skinnier and rounded, and the other is wider, octagonal, and ends in a fork shape of two prongs. One prong is slightly curved with a pointed end, and the other is blunt.
label: Description
content: This object was gifted by Larry L. Culp from the Culp Welding & Machine Company. Culp was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up primarily in the nearby Maryland suburb of Rockville. His grandfather founded the Culp Welding Company, a small welding business that his father then took over. Culp Welding stayed in steady business for decades, rarely employing more than a dozen workers at one time. Larry Culp sometimes helped on the shop floor, where he observed his grandfather and father run the business. Informed by these experiences and values, Culp became Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of General Electric Company, an American multinational conglomerate, on October 1, 2018.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Silver Spring
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Larry L. Culp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.3119.18
label: nonaccession number
content: 1994.3119
label: catalog number
content: 1994.3119.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Boiler Tube Tool, (Fork), Welding Equipment
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 1 1/2 in x 3/4 in; x 25.4 cm x 3.81 cm x 1.905 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/8 in x 1 5/8 in; x 25.7175 cm x 4.1275 cm