Colorimeter
name: label: maker
content: MacGregor Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This Vim-Sheftel colorimeter is based on the form patented in 1933 by Abraham George Sheftel (1899-1951), a New York physician. It was made by The MacGregor Instrument Co., a firm in Needham, Mass. that was established by John MacGregor (1877-1957), an immigrant from Scotland. According to advertisements, it allowed physicians to do blood sugar tests quickly and easily in their office or at a patient’s bedside.
label: Description
content: Ref: Abraham G. Sheftel, “Colorimeter,” U.S. Patent 1,916,589 (July 4, 1933).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Needham
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07859
label: catalog number
content: M-07859
label: accession number
content: 223292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Testing, Urinary
label: Object Name
content: colorimeter
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Testing, Urinary; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 6 5/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 9.525 cm x 16.8275 cm x 12.065 cm