Centrifuge
name: label: maker
content: Sorvall, Ivan
notes: label: Description
content: Ivan Sorvall (ca. 1897-1952) was born in Stockholm, moved to the U.S. in 1922, and began importing Swedish merchandise. In 1930 he organized Ivan Sorvall, Inc., in Norwalk, Conn., manufacturers of centrifuges and other laboratory equipment. The trademark of the firm was “Servall.”
label: Description
content: This centrifuge has a blue metal case, and a metal tag reading “AUTOMATED / SERVALL / SUPERSPEED.” Ads described this model as “Easily the most advanced table-top centrifuge available today. Designed for the busy laboratory.” It rotated at 17,000 rpm.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Ivan Sorvall,” <i>New York Times</i> (Nov. 11, 1952), p. 29.
label: Description
content: Ivan Sorvall ad in <i>Science</i> 144 (April 3, 1964).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Rockefeller University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0188.06
label: accession number
content: 1996.0188
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0188.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Centrifuge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 44.5 cm x 60.9 cm x 47 cm; 17 1/2 in x 24 in x 18 1/2 in