Trade catalogs from Dempster Brothers

Date: 1900s

Company Name: Dempster Brothers

Place: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Topic (Romaine Term): Waste Management (including water treatment; recycling; refuse collection; industrial waste; etc.)Topic: "Recycling (Waste, etc.)"Refuse and refuse disposalRefuse disposal industryWater -- Purification

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Location: Trade Literature at the American History Museum LibraryCollection: Smithsonian Libraries Trade Literature Collections

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Record Id: SILNMAHTL_13796

Type Of Material: Trade catalogsTrade literature

Notes Content: Dumpsters and dumpster trucks ; Dempster Dumpmaster was introduced in the 1950's and was the first commercially successful front-loading garbage truck. Built by Dempster Brothers, they used the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically emptying standardized metal containers, which had been patented by the company in 1937. Arms at the front picked up a mobile garbage bin, called a dumpster, lifted it over the cab to tip it into the hopper. A rearward travelling compacting panel compressed the garbage stored in the truck, and was also used to push it out through a door at the back when the truck was emptied. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dempster_DumpmasterIncludes: Trade catalogBlack and white imagesColor imagesPhysical Description: 5 pieces; 1 box

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Record Id: SILNMAHTL_13796