Instruments & Innovation

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This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

Start Over Exhibition ExhibitLab ✖ Format Physical Object ✖ Subject Breastfeeding ✖ Subject Breast pumps ✖

Vessels (Containers), Glassware

Manual breast pump with black bulb
- After 1920 – before 1959
Glass tube with a collecting reservoir that opens into a funnel (or breast piece). Round black rubber pump attached to one end of the glass.
- Subject Women--Health and hygiene, Breast pumps, Breastfeeding, Medical instruments and apparatus, Glassware, Pediatric nursing, Health
Vessels (Containers), Glassware

"Omega" manual breast reliever with red bulb
- After 1920 – before 1959
Glass tube with a collecting reservoir that opens into a funnel (or breast piece). Round red rubber bulb attached to one end of the glass. Stamp in black ink on red bulb reads "Ingram's/'Omega'/London."
- Subject Women--Health and hygiene, Breast pumps, Breastfeeding, Medical instruments and apparatus, Glassware, Pediatric nursing, Health

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Manual breast pump with black bulb

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