Hydrometer
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1945
name: label: maker
content: Kimble Glass Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass hydrometer with ballast, and paper label marked “MADE IN U.S.A. PERCENTAGE OF PROOF SPIRITS AT 60° F. KIMBLE GLASS COMPANY.” Another paper label is marked “U.S. BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE / STANDARD HYDROMETER” and “SERIES OF 1945.”
label: Description
content: Evan Kimble (1868-1956) established the Kimble Glass Co., in Chicago, in 1902. The firm purchased a second plant in Vineland, N.J., in 1931; and it consolidated operations in a larger factor in Chicago Heights, Il., in 1939.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Evan Kimble, Early Resident Here, Is Dead,” Chicago Tribune (March 17, 1956), p. B7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Reference Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0015.03
label: accession number
content: 1996.0015
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0015.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hydrometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: lead (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.4 cm x 2.5 cm; 11 15/16 in x in
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 1 3/8 in x 12 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 32.385 cm x 3.81 cm