Stir Plate
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on this magnetic stir plate read “THERMO ELECTRIC MFG. CO. / DUBUQUE, IOWA” and “MODEL SP-1025B.” The Thermo Electric Manufacturing Company was established in Chicago in 1942, moved to Dubuque in 1943, and specialized in furnaces for university and hospital laboratories where constant temperatures were critical and in industries for heat-treating metal. It also made hot plates, incubators, laboratory lights and magnetic stirrers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: California, Stanford
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Stanley N. Cohen, MD and Stanford University Medical Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0757.30
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0757.30
label: accession number
content: 1987.0757
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Stir-Plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 18 cm x 17.5 cm; 6 5/16 in x 7 3/32 in x 6 7/8 in