Person Record

Metadata

Name

Strome, Albert L.

Other Names

Albert Lawrence Strome

Born

Dec. 1879

Deceased

1948

Deceased

Teeswater

Father

Noah Strome

Mother

Caroline

Spouse

Myrtle Howson, m. Nov. 17, 1909

Children

Myrtle Lueba c.1918

Occupation

Albert Strome of Teeswater was a garage owner and machinist by trade. Wanting to have a "safe, efficient, and durable apparatus for measuring gasoline and delivering it to suitable receptacles", Strome patented the inner workings of a gasoline pump in 1915 (Canadian Patent 168677). His design featured a fuel measuring mechanism located outside the dispensing tank. It also had a hose below the dispensing tank, rather than at the top. In this way, Strome’s design utilized gravity to dispense fuel through the hose rather than by further manual pumping (fuel had to be manually pumped from the main holding tank to the dispensing tank and then out). At the top of his drawings issued to the patent office, the pump is titled "Measuring & Dispensing Apparatus for Gasoline and the Like". Though he didn’t invent the radio tube tester, Strome built the one in the BCM&CC Collection himself and was likely used in his shop.