Test Glass
notes: label: Description
content: Conical 8-oz. test glass with graduations, pouring lip, and foot. The form, sometimes termed a graduated measure glass, is associated with Thomas Clark (1801-1867), a Scotsman who, in 1833, became professor of chemistry at Marischal College in Aberdeen.
label: Description
content: Ref: Richard Griffin & Co., Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus (Glasgow, 1841), pp. 55 and 82-83.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Apparatus</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 2, p. 65.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Department of Defense, U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316466.075
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content: 316466.075
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content: 223721
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Graduate
label: Object Name
content: test glass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 171 mm x 77 mm; 6 3/4 in x 3 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 17.145 cm x 9.525 cm x 8.5725 cm