Horismascope (Albumoscope)
date: label: patent date
content: 1901-01-08
name: label: maker
content: Nelson, Baker and Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on the base of this glass vessel read “PAT'D JAN. 8TH 1901” and “NELSON BAKER & CO. / DETROIT, MICH.” Nelson Baker & Co. was a pharmaceutical supply house in Detroit, organized in 1890.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ralph C. Robinson, “Chemical Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 665,468 (Jan. 8, 1901).
label: Description
content: “In Testing Urine for Albumin use the HORISMASCOPE.” Nelson, Baker & Co. ad in Detroit Medical Journal 2 (1903): xxiii.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12874
label: patent number
content: US665468A
label: catalog number
content: M-12874
label: accession number
content: 287162
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Albuminometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)