Pump
name: label: Associated Name
content: Milton Roy Co.
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this item reads “Mini Pump / mR / Technology in Fluids / Milton Roy Co. / St. Petersburg, Florida . . . / Model 196-31 / Serial IP-1454. . .” Robert T. Sheen (1910-2000), son of Milton Roy Sheen (1884-1947), invented the metering pump in his father's basement in Pennsylvania, in 1936. The two men established the Milton Roy Co., a fluid instrument firm, soon thereafter. The firm established a branch office in Florida in 1953.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Rockefeller University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0188.01.18
label: accession number
content: 1996.0188
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0188.01.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pump
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: insulated wire (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.8 cm x 15.2 cm x 17.1 cm; 9 in x 6 in x 6 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 9 13/16 in; 17.145 cm x 16.51 cm x 24.92375 cm