Corrugated Metal Tubing Associated with Herman Hollerith
Corrugated Metal Tubing Associated with Herman Hollerith
- Description
- This corrugated copper tube is closed at one end. It may be a sample made using Hollerith's patented "Apparatus for corrugating metal tubing" (Patent 349,718, September 28, 1886).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tube
- maker
- Hollerith, Herman
- Physical Description
- copper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.1 cm x 3.6 cm x 3.6 cm; 2 in x 1 13/32 in x 1 13/32 in
- ID Number
- 1995.3037.04
- nonaccession number
- 1995.3037
- catalog number
- 1995.3037.04
- Credit Line
- Gift of Richard Hollerith Jr. for the Herman Hollerith Family
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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