Scleroscope
date: label: date made
content: 1928
notes: label: Description
content: This is a scleroscope, made in 1928 by Shore Instrument & Manufacturing Co., NY. This particular model is a Model C2, Serial No. 20206, which was sold to Rice Barton Fales on January 17, 1928.
label: Description
content: A scleroscope is used for testing hardness of metals and used to measure rebound hardness. This one has a black rounded end and a glass tube with a guage on top. A tube, broken in two pieces with a bulb on one of the pieces, lies around the object having once been attached.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rice Barton Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0624.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0624.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0624
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scleroscope
label: Object Name
content: scleroscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 6 3/8 in x 16 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 16.1925 cm x 41.91 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - scleroscope: 6 1/2 in x 5 5/8 in x 16 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 14.2875 cm x 41.91 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - broken piece: 7 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 19.685 cm x 4.445 cm x 4.445 cm