Medal
notes: label: Description
content: Benjamin Pike, Jr. (1808-1864) won this silver medal in 1845. The obverse has a female figure (representing Columbia) facing left, eagle, shield, phrygian cap, cornucopia, spinning wheel, sheaf of wheat, sailing ship, and "AMERICAN INSTITUTE / NEW-YORK / R. LOVETT." The reverse has "Awarded to / B. Pike Jr. / for a Galvanic Battery / & Apparatus / for DECOMPOSING / Water / 1845.” The design is the work of Robert Lovett (1796-1874), a medal artist who worked in Philadelphia and New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.334872
label: catalog number
content: 334872
label: accession number
content: 312744
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.16 mm x 51.3 mm; 5/32 in x 2 1/32 in