Test Glass
notes: label: Description
content: V-shaped test glass with graduations, pouring lip, and foot. The form, sometimes termed a graduated measure glass, is associated with Thomas Clark (1801-1867), a Scotsman who, in 1833, became professor of chemistry at Marischal College in Aberdeen.
label: Description
content: Ref: Richard Griffin & Co., Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus (Glasgow, 1841), pp. 55 and 82-83.
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content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Apparatus</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 2, p. 65.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Department of Defense, U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316466.074
label: catalog number
content: 316466.074
label: accession number
content: 223721
objectType: label: Object Name
content: test glass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 95 mm x 54 mm; 3 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 13/16 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 12.22375 cm x 6.35 cm x 5.715 cm