M-S-A Halogenated Hydrocarbons (Group A) Detector
name: label: maker
content: Mine Safety Appliances Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This device, made by the Mine Safety Appliances Co. of Pittsburgh, was used to test for halogenated hydrocarbons. An inscription reads “M.S.A. Carbon Monoxide Tester Catalog No. DS-47133 / U.S. Patent 2487077.”
label: Description
content: Ref: George Martin Shepard, “Colorimetric Gas Detection,” U.S. Patent 2,487,077 (Nov. 8, 1949), assigned to the United States of America.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0837.08
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0837.08
label: accession number
content: 1986.0837
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Halogenated hydrocarbons aspirator sampler
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 5 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 22.86 cm x 13.335 cm x 9.525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 28.2575 cm x 19.685 cm x 7.9375 cm