Centrifuge
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1910
label: date made
content: ca. 1920
name: label: maker
content: International Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Arthur Kendrick (1865-1931) graduated from Amherst College, earned an M.A. at Harvard, and taught physics at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and elsewhere before establishing the International Instrument Company, in Cambridge, Ma., in 1901. This firm was reorganized as the International Equipment Company (IEC) in 1929; and acquired by the Damon Corporation in 1968.
label: Description
content: This centrifuge belonged to Robert Augustus Cummings (1866-1962), a civil and consulting engineer. An inscription reads: "INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT CO. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U.S.A., SIZE 2 TYPE B AMPS ___ ORDER NO. 7711 APPARATUS NO. 1266 VOLTS 110 CY. 60."
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur Kendrick, “Centrifugal Filtering-Machine,” U.S. Patent 1,293,114 (Feb. 4, 1919), assigned to the International Instrument Company.
label: Description
content: "ARTHUR KENDRICK DEAD IN NEWTON," Boston Globe (Sept. 24, 1931), p. 19.
label: Description
content: Louis Rosenfeld, <i>Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry</i> (New York and London, 1999), p. 202.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Eloise C. Simpson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330317
label: catalog number
content: 330317
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Centrifuge
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: outside: 32 mm; 1 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 58.5 cm x 58.5 cm; 23 1/16 in x 23 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: inside: 165 mm x 29 mm; 6 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in