hydraulic vice/press
Date1850-1900
Inventory Number1996-1-0422
ClassificationHydraulic Press
Subject
Maker
Charles Cuthbert
Place of Origin
Dimensions56 x 62 x 16.5 cm (22 1/16 x 24 7/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Material
DescriptionThis object has multiple components. The first, the base, is a small wooden rectangle elevated by small wooden strips on both short ends. (The wooden strip on one of the ends seems to have been damaged.) Atop this base are two thicker bases.
The first is a rectangle with a protruding semi-circle on both of the short ends. From there sprout two wooden pillars. Both the pillars are connected at the top by a darker wooden piece that reuses the same shape as the base. Built between the two pillars is a similarly shaped plate (with a tiny hole in the center) which rests on a somewhat cylindrical component which rests atop the base. Different components of this dominant part of the instrument are all splattered with multiple kinds of residue.
The second base, much smaller than the first, is a metal cylinder immediately beside the first base. (On its other side is the maker's signature.) From this stout cylinder a series of tapering components rise up approximately 2/3s of the way up the pillar. It connects to the pillar twice: once by enclosing a very long wooden lever attached to the pillar near the plate (the lever is shaped like a broom stick, though with grooved detail); the second point of attachment is near the top of this series of tapering components.
The first is a rectangle with a protruding semi-circle on both of the short ends. From there sprout two wooden pillars. Both the pillars are connected at the top by a darker wooden piece that reuses the same shape as the base. Built between the two pillars is a similarly shaped plate (with a tiny hole in the center) which rests on a somewhat cylindrical component which rests atop the base. Different components of this dominant part of the instrument are all splattered with multiple kinds of residue.
The second base, much smaller than the first, is a metal cylinder immediately beside the first base. (On its other side is the maker's signature.) From this stout cylinder a series of tapering components rise up approximately 2/3s of the way up the pillar. It connects to the pillar twice: once by enclosing a very long wooden lever attached to the pillar near the plate (the lever is shaped like a broom stick, though with grooved detail); the second point of attachment is near the top of this series of tapering components.
Signedon small plaque on base: Cha. Cuthbert / LONDON.
Martin J. Buerger
Date: 1945-1960
Object number: 1998-1-1673a
Martin J. Buerger
Date: 1941-1944
Accessories: film holder (a); metal screen (b); small rectangular metal counterweight (c)
Object number: 1996-1-0185
Camille Sébastien Nachet
Date: 1856-1862
Accessories: oculars (2): 2 , 3; objectives (6) in fitted box (1029b): 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, along with substage condenser and oblique Nachet prism condenser; cup diaphram; flat case with parts box (1029c) holding diffuser, camera lucida; stage micrometer; ocular micrometer; wet specimen trough, 4 slides in red leather box (1029d); bull's eye condenser.
Object number: 1029a
Nachet et Fils (I)
Date: 1862
Accessories: 6 objectives in box (1157b) with 1 substage condenser; oblique prism condenser; 3 oculars; 1 cup diaphragm, 1 diffuser, ; camera lucida; stage and eyepiece micrometers; liquid trough; 3 dissecting knives; prepared slides in box (1157d); plain slides; cover glasses; bull's eye on jointed arm(1157e); Amici's illuminator prism with stand (1157f); compressorium (1157g); case with parts box (1157c).
Object number: 1157a
French
Date: circa 1890
Accessories: Leyden jars (2)
2 rubber pulley belts
Object number: DW0890
Wild Heerbrugg Ltd.
Date: 1960
Object number: 1997-1-0722
Benjamin Martin
Date: circa 1766
Accessories: rope cord belt
glass globe
conducting pad
in folder: photographs, page containing description, history, and discussion of design, note from Ebenezer Gay regarding conservation work, excerpt from David Pingree Wheatland and I. Bernard Cohen, A Catalogue of Some Early Scientific Instruments at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1949), woodcut with picture of instrument from B. Martin, Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy (1759): 139.
X-ray images of parts of the machine can be found in C1-A7.
Object number: 0013
