Sizing Compound
name: label: inventor
content: Fisher, Robert A.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Robert A. Fisher, “Neutral Sizing Material for Paper-Makers’ Use,” U.S. Patent 321,092 (June 30, 1885). After graduating from Yale College and attending lectures at German and French universities, Robert Andrews Fisher (1832-1893) became the professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the University of California, and then a consulting chemist to industrial concerns in the Philadelphia region. It was in this latter capacity that he developed a sizing compound for paper.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0016.5
label: catalog number
content: 1980.16.5
label: patent number
content: 321096
label: accession number
content: 1980.0016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sizing Compound for Paper
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 67 mm x 38 mm; 2 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in