{"id":247,"date":"2011-04-22T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/2011\/04\/22\/thingamajig-2\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:02:00","slug":"thingamajig-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2011\/04\/22\/thingamajig-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thingamajig"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alethea Drexler, archives assistant
\nmcgovern@exch.library.tmc.edu<\/a>
\nThingamajigs often make for short posts because I don’t want to give too much away.\u00a0 This one will be an especially short post because, in all honesty, I have no idea what it is.\u00a0 (I guess that solves the “give too much away” problem, doesn’t it?\u00a0 I can’t give you what I don’t have.)
\nToday’s thingamajig comes from Manuscript Collection 135: Mann Realia, item 18.6.
\nWe have a silver cylinder.\u00a0 The body of the device is five and a half inches long and about an inch in diameter.\u00a0 The small wheels on the ends screw in and out.\u00a0 There is some sort of twist-on attachment on one end.
\nThe smaller attachment was in the envelope with the cylinder.\u00a0 It has a threaded end that apparently could have been screwed into something else.\u00a0 It’s not clear how the two are related, if they are related at all.
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Your guess is as good as mine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nYou can unscrew one end of the cylinder and pull it apart.
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The interior component.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nInside is a perforated screen stuffed with . . . stuff.\u00a0 It looks like cotton wool or some other absorbent material.
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Stuffed with . . . stuff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThis has a faint residual smell that might be burnt, or might just be old, it’s hard to tell which.\u00a0 The material looks as though it could be scorched but it could also simply be aged.
\nThe perforated screen suggests that this was meant to hold something volatile.\u00a0 My first thought was that the stuffing could be soaked in something that was meant to be inhaled at a controlled rate.
\nI promise to spend next week researching this, but if you have any guesses, send them along!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alethea Drexler, archives assistant mcgovern@exch.library.tmc.edu Thingamajigs often make for short posts because I don’t want to give too much away.\u00a0 This one will be an especially short post because, in all honesty, I have no idea what it is.\u00a0 (I guess that solves the “give too much away” problem, doesn’t it?\u00a0 I can’t give […]<\/p>\n

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