Petri Dish with Cover
name: label: maker
content: Corning
notes: label: Description
content: The Petri dish was devised in the 1880s by Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921), a German microbiologist who worked as assistant to the bacteriologist, Robert Koch. This example is made of Pyrex.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0158.13
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0158.13
label: accession number
content: 2015.0158
objectType: label: Object Name
content: petri dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.8 cm x 6 cm; 23/32 in x 2 3/8 in