Test Tube Rack
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Heil (1854-1919) was born in Germany, moved to the United States in 1872, graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, and established the Henry Heil Chemical Co. in 1882. Heil Scientific, as the firm was later known, donated this complex wooden test tube rack to the Smithsonian in 1959.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Heil Chemical Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus</i> (St. Louis, 1904), p. 408.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316632
label: catalog number
content: 316632
label: accession number
content: 225570
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Test Tube Rack
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in x 12 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 17.145 cm x 31.115 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 19 3/4 in x 9 3/8 in; 21.59 cm x 50.165 cm x 23.8125 cm