Liquid Measure
name: label: maker
content: Seraphin Company
label: maker
content: Seraphin Test Measure Company
notes: label: Description
content: Theophilus A. Seraphin (1881-1976), an inspector of weights and measures in Philadelphia, established the Seraphin Test Measure Co. in 1915. This instrument came from National Bureau of Standards. The word “SERAPHIN” is embossed on the tank. The inscription on the metal plate behind the indicator tube reads “SERAPHIN TEST MEASURE CO. / PHILADELPHIA / 5 GALLONS TO ZERO.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Theophilus A. Seraphin, “Field Standard for Testing Liquid-Measuring Devices,” U.S. Patent 1,277,760 (Sept. 3, 1918).
label: Description
content: F. J. Schlink, “Liquid Measuring Pumps,” <i>Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards</i> 81 (1917).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330323
label: catalog number
content: 330323
label: accession number
content: 1978.0483
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Five Gallon Test Measure, Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: indicator tube: 12.5 mm; x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 56 cm x 28 cm; 22 1/16 in x 11 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 3/8 in x 11 1/2 in; 56.8325 cm x 29.21 cm