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Pinson Bomb

Inventory Number 10461


Item type
Object
Physical material
Metal
Ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter: 122mm Height: 105mm Weight: 1667g
Inventory No
10461
Accession Number
1998-7

Description

Cylindrical metal drum with a nozzle, a vice screw, and a third projection on the top. It is a pressure container designed to deliver concentrated ether vapour to a mask, or to add to a gas flow.

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Invented 1921 by Kenneth Bernard Pinson (b.1890) & Stanley Rawson Wilson (1882-1927).

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