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1. Vol 1 The Machine Everybody Mislabels It was sold to me as an embalming machine. Its maker's own 1926 catalogue says otherwise — and so does a 1917 advertisement. What I actually own is a Sorensen 'Tankless' No. 60, the Dr. S. Yankauer Outfit for Pressure and Suction.
2. Vol 2 Pressure and Suction: The Circuit One motor, one twin-cylinder air pump, two ports and two bottles — and the reason the dip tube in the ether bottle is an inlet rather than an outlet.
3. Vol 3 Inside the Machine The eccentric pump, the flywheel and belt reduction, the universal motor, and the valves — what can be read from the outside of Machine No. 10010, and what is still waiting behind a cover plate.
4. Vol 4 Care, Repair and Bringing It Back Conservation of a hundred-year-old ungrounded bench appliance — what to stabilise, what to leave alone, why the cord is the most dangerous thing on the machine, and the irony of an arcing motor built to sit beside an open ether bottle.
5. Vol 5 Dr. Sidney Yankauer The Mount Sinai laryngologist whose name is on this outfit, whose suction tip is in every operating room on earth, and whose tidiest origin story is the one the record does not support.
6. Vol 6 C. M. Sorensen Co., and Dating This Machine A firm that made pressure and suction apparatus for sixty years, moved twice, patented nothing, and ended inside Vernitron — and why, with all of that on the table, Machine No. 10010 still cannot be dated to a year.