Mohr
notes: label: Description
content: The nineteenth century German pharmacist Karl Friedrich Mohr developed calibrated pipettes like this these for transferring specific amounts of a liquid . Mohr pipettes were manufactured by the Kimble Glass Company at its factory in Vineland, New Jersey from at least 1920. By the mid-1920s, Kimble had a special line of Kollegiate glassware for high school and freshman college courses. This included two sets of Mohr pipettes, one of which had a pipette very similar to this one. From 1959, Mohr pipettes were among the goods that could be purchased for high school use with matching funds from the U.S. federal government under the National Defense Education Act. This particular example was sold under the name Kimax 51, a trademark first used by Kimble Glass Company in 1963. Calibrated at a temperature of 20 degrees centigrade, it held up to 2 milliliters, with divisions to 1/10 of a milliliter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon B. Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0020.14
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0020.14
label: accession number
content: 1998.0020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pipette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.9 cm x .7 cm; 13 3/4 in x 1/4 in