Flash Point Tester
name: label: maker
content: C.J. Tagliabue Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: The expanded use of kerosene in the mid-nineteenth century led to a search for ways to test the volatility of petroleum products, to reduce the incidence of accidental fires. Giuseppe Tagliabue, an Italian immigrant working in New York, invented a flash point tester in 1861. The C. J. Tagliabue Manufacturing Company produced many instruments of this sort. The inscription on this example reads ”C. J. TAGLIABUE MFG. CO. 1385 PATENTED AUG 7, 1917 - AUG 13, 1918 MADE IN U.S.A.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles J. Tagliabue, “Closed Oil-Tester,” U.S. Patent 1,236,123 (Aug. 7, 1917), assigned to the C. J. Tagliabue Manufacturing Company.
label: Description
content: Charles J. Tagliabue, “Oil-Tester,” U.S. Patent 1,263,145 (April 16, 1918), assigned to the C. J. Tagliabue Manufacturing Company.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas, Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 451.
label: Description
content: C. J. Taglibue Manufacturing Co., TAG Manual for Inspectors of Petroleum (1946).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of McKinley Sr. High School
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.336674
label: catalog number
content: 336674
label: accession number
content: 1978.0799
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flash Point Tester
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.8 cm x 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm; 9 in x 5 in x 5 in
label: Measurements
content: box: 34.3 cm x 16.5 cm x 16.5 cm; 13 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in