Anaerobic Jar
date: label: date made
content: after 1916
notes: label: Description
content: An anaerobic jar produces an anaerobic environment to culture bacteria that would die or fail to grow in presence of oxygen. James McIntosh and Paul Fildes, both British pathologists, introduced a form in 1916, and an improved version in 1921. This example is of that sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: Paul Fildes and James McIntosh, “A New Apparatus for the Isolation and Cultivation of Anaerobic Micro-Organisms,” Lancet (April 8, 1916): 768-770.
label: Description
content: James McIntosh and Paul Fildes, "An Improved Form of McIntosh and Fildes' Anaërobic Jar," British Journal of Experimental Pathology 2 (1921): 153–154.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Xavier University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0055.01
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0055.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0055
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar, anaerobic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 24.13 cm x 13.97 cm x 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 5/8 in x 5 7/16 in x 4 3/4 in; 24.4475 cm x 13.81125 cm x 12.065 cm