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A hinge (of Lead) Cast at one heat, and at the same time with the pin. and pr[esented] by Mr. Adam Stewart

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 22, 1815

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 76

Notes:

Stewart was "an ingenious mechanician" of Philadelphia who devised Stewart's Spring Saw. The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences 2 (1821): 141 and Plate 3