Air Sampler
name: label: Associated Name
content: Allegheny County Health Department
notes: label: Description
content: Air sampler with a “MFD. BY / RESEARCH APPLIANCE CO. / ALLISON PARK, PA. / U.S.A. / RAC.” inscription. The Research Appliance Co., a firm that designed and produced apparatus for environmental monitoring, was established by Elmer Ernest Fleck (1914-1996) in Allison Park, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, in 1947, and was acquired by Chemed Corp. in 1973. Its AISI automatic tape sampler, introduced in 1950, became a basic instrument for measuring particulate concentrations in the atmosphere.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Allison Park
topic: label: associated subject
content: Public Health
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Allegheny County Health Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0698.03
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0698.03
label: accession number
content: 1990.0698
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Air Sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue, turquoise (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.5 cm x 36.5 cm x 29 cm; 10 13/16 in x 14 3/8 in x 11 7/16 in