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Jeffrey Portable Pulverizer 1913


Jeffrey Portable Pulverizer

Pulverizer made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, 1913. It was a type D, portable pulverizer, the first of that type. This kind of pulverizer was used to crush limestone into fine powder which farmers spread on fields to enrich soil and increase crop yield. Pulverizers were belt-driven and powered by steam or gasoline engines.

Creator: Fred A. Behmer of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company ; Photographer

Creation Date: 1913

Place: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)

Media Type: Cyanotype ; Photographic Print (Black and White)

Collection Number: P 251

Collection Title: Jeffrey Manufacturing Company Collection

Image Number: AL01316

Copyright: Contact the Ohio Historical Society

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