Flash Point Tester
name: label: maker
content: Eimer and Amend
notes: label: Description
content: In its annual report submitted to the governor in early 1903, the New York State Board of Health mentioned the many accidents caused by oil lamps and oil cans, and called for “a more general test of illuminating oils.” This instrument, designed for determining the flash point of illuminating oils, might have been used for that purpose. The inscription on one metal tag reads “OIL TESTER / N.Y. STATE / BOARD OF HEALTH.” That on another reads “EIMER & AMEND / MAKERS / NEW YORK.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Eimer & Amend, <i>Illustrated Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus, Assay Goods, and Laboratory Supplies</i> (New York, 1910), p. 272.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas, <i>Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents</i> (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 452.
label: Description
content: Boverton Redwood, "The Tagliabue Open Flash-Point Tester," <i>Petroleum and Its Products</i> 2 (1906): 546.
label: Description
content: Boverton Redwood, "The Tagliabue Closed Flash-Point Tester," <i>Petroleum and Its Products</i> 2 (1906): 576.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania Chemistry Lab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316215
label: accession number
content: 217523
label: catalog number
content: 316215
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flash Point Tester
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 4 1/2 in; 35.56 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 7 in; 28.575 cm x 17.78 cm