Conical Graduate
date: label: date made
content: ca 1931
name: label: maker
content: Whitall Tatum Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The glass graduate is a form of glassware used for measuring precise volumes of liquids, particularly by pharmacists. Over time, the graduate has been produced in a variety of shapes, from a flat-bottomed, beaker form to a footed cylinder, tumbler, or cone.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Whitall Tatum Company was among the first American glass companies to manufacture chemical glassware, starting as early as the late 1870s. Based in Millville, New Jersey, the company’s factory produced chemical and other glassware for over 150 years, finally closing its doors in 1999.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Whitall Tatum donated this object to the museum in 1931, at the request of Charles Whitebread, assistant curator in the Division of Medicine. Whitebread planned to use the object as a part of a series of exhibits illustrating “historical and practical phases of medicine and pharmacy.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: Sources:
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content: Harrison, Charles. Cumberland County, New Jersey: 265 Years of History. The History Press, 2013.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Levy, Bernard. “Pharmacy Graduates in Use from 1880 to 1920.” Pharmacy in History 26, no. 3 (1984): 150–54.
label: Description (Brief)
content: National Museum of American History Accession File #113583
label: Description (Brief)
content: Rosenfeld, Louis. Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry. CRC Press, 1999.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Whitall Tatum & Company. “Whitall Tatum & Co. Glass Ware,” 1879.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Science Under Glass
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Whitall Tatum Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-03012
label: accession number
content: 113583
label: catalog number
content: M-03012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: graduate
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 2 13/16 in x 3 1/16 in; 16.8275 cm x 7.14375 cm x 7.77875 cm