Forcing and Lifting Pump
Forcing and Lifting Pump
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- Description
- The University of Michigan moved to Ann Arbor in 1841, and began classes in natural philosophy (what we now call physics) two years later. This forcing and lifting pump came from that school, and may have been used at an early date.
- Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments (New York, 1848), vol. 1, pp. 233-235.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lifting and force pump
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18 1/2 in x 5 in; 46.99 cm x 12.7 cm
- overall: 19 1/4 in x 8 3/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 48.895 cm x 21.2725 cm x 13.335 cm
- ID Number
- PH.319721
- catalog number
- 319721
- accession number
- 239024
- Credit Line
- Gift of the University of Michigan Department of Phhysics through Mr. Arthur Dockrill
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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