Homogenizer
notes: label: Description
content: This device, designed to pulverize or liquify tissue samples, has an inscription that reads “VirTis ‘45’ / Homogenizer / The VirTis Company / Gardiner, New York . . . Serial No. 35682.” Virtis (a contraction of Viruses and Tissues) was founded in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1953, moved to Gardiner in 1955, and advertised as “World Leader in Freeze Drying.” It was acquired by Cenco in 1963.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0890.09
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0890.09
label: accession number
content: 1991.0890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Homogenizer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 53.3 cm x 30.5 cm x 20.3 cm; 21 in x 12 in x 8 in