Flash Point Tester
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: As petroleum products became increasingly popular, and explosions became ever more problematic, there was a need for reliable flash point testers. The inscription on this example reads “TYCOS / STANDARD / U.S. BUREAU OF MINES FLASH POINT TESTER No. 222 / EIMER & AMEND, NEW YORK, USA.” Tycos was the trade name of the Taylor Instrument Company in Rochester, New York.
label: Description
content: Ref: David Talbot Day, <i>A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry</i> (New York, 1922), vol. 1, pp. 638-640.
label: Description
content: Irving C. Allen and A. S. Crossfield, “Investigations with the U.S. Bureau of Mines Modification of the Abel-Pensky and Pensky-Martens Flash-Point Testers,” <i>The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry</i> 5 (1913): 908-910.
label: Description
content: Tycos ad in <i>Petroleum Magazine</i> (June 1920): 62.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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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.316417
label: catalog number
content: 316417
label: accession number
content: 223721
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flash Point Tester
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 6 in; 27.94 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 13 1/4 in x 10 3/8 in x 9 7/8 in; 33.655 cm x 26.3525 cm x 25.0825 cm