Kjeldahl Digestion Rack
name: label: maker
content: Precision Scientific Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Kjeldahl digestion rack, designed to determine protein, nitrogen and ammonia content of organic compounds, was developed by the Danish chemist, Johan Gustav Christoffer Thorsager Kjeldahl (1849–1900). A tag on this example reads in part “MODERN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND / PRODUCTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT / ENGINEERED AND BUILT BY THE / PRECISION SCIENTIFIC CO. / Made in U.S.A. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0184.022.1
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0184.022.1
label: accession number
content: 2017.0184
objectType: label: Object Name
content: digestion rack
label: Object Name
content: public health
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: asbestos (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 cm x 5 cm; 21 1/4 in x 1 31/32 in