Gasoline Pump, 1910
Gasoline Pump, 1910
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- Description
- The Tokheim Oil Tank and Pump Company, of Fort Wayne, Indiana produced this gas pump during the early 1900s. This moveable ability of the tank reflects the fact that before gas stations were a widespread phenomenon, many hardware stores sold gasoline to motorists. This mobile pump may have replaced the old system of buying gasoline by the bucketful in some stores.
- As Americans took to the wheel, they needed to buy gasoline-if they owned a gasoline powered car, rather than a steam or electric model. Entrepreneurs and inventors came up with technologies and systems in order to get gasoline to the consumers before there were a plethora of gas stations.
- Object Name
- gas pump
- Pump, Gas
- pump, gasoline
- Other Terms
- Pump, Gas; Road
- date made
- ca 1910
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- rubber (part: material)
- brass (part: material)
- Measurements
- overall: 69 in x 40 in x 35 in; 175.26 cm x 101.6 cm x 88.9 cm
- ID Number
- TR.326808
- catalog number
- 326808
- accession number
- 265699
- Credit Line
- American Oil Company
- See more items in
- Division of the History of Technology: Transportation, Road
- America on the Move
- Exhibition
- America On The Move
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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