Plate Counter
notes: label: Description
content: William Dodge Frost (1867-1957), a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin, developed a plate for counting colonies of bacteria. This example was manufactured by CENCO.
label: Description
content: Ref. W. D. Frost, “Counting the Living Bacteria in Milk—A Practical Test,” Journal of Bacteriology 2 (1917): 567-583.
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content: William Dodge Frost and Genevieve D. Moore, “The Cellular Test for Pasteurized Milk under Practical Conditions,” Journal of Dairy Science 2 (1920): 189-196.
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content: William Dodge Frost, Laboratory Guide in Elementary Bacteriology (1921).
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content: Central Scientific, “Apparatus for the Frost Little Plate Method of Counting Bacteria in Milk,” ad in American Journal of Public Health (Aug. 1922).
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content: “Dr. William Frost, Bacteriologist, 89,” New York Times (Jan. 27, 1957), p. 84.
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content: Russell E. Frost, Beloved Professor: Life and Times of William Dodge Frost (1961).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Wisconsin, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Department of Bacteriology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0191.09
label: accession number
content: 1995.0191
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0191.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Plate Counter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 13.7 cm; 8 1/4 in x 5 3/8 in