Fermentation Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Theobald Smith (1859-1934), an epidemiologist then working at the Bureau of Animal Industry, introduced this type of glass tube for studying fermentation and gas production in 1893. This example has no foot.
label: Description
content: Ref: Theobald Smith, “Fermentation Tube with Special Reference to Anaerobiosis and Gas Production among Bacteria,” Wilder Quarter Century Book (Ithaca, N.Y., 1893): 187-233.
label: Description
content: Eimer & Amend, Revised and Enlarged Catalogue of Bacteriological Apparatus (New York, 1907), p. 101.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas, Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents (Philadelphia, 1914), p. 209.
label: Description
content: Hans Zinsser, “Biographical Memoir of Theobald Smith,” Reviews of Infectious Diseases 9 (1987): 636-654.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Barbara A. Keppel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0311.236
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0311.236
label: accession number
content: 1985.0311
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fermentation Tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 136 mm x 76 mm; 5 3/8 in x 3 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 in x 1 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 7.62 cm x 3.81 cm