Test Glass
date: label: date made
content: Probably nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: V-shaped glass with pouring lip and foot designed for chemical experiments. The form, sometimes termed a graduated measure glass, is associated with Thomas Clark (1801-1867), a Scotsman who, in 1833, became professor of chemistry at Marischal College in Aberdeen. The sides of this example are graduated to 1 oz. and 8 drams.
label: Description
content: Ref: Richard Griffin & Co., Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus (Glasgow, 1841), pp. 55 and 82-83.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Apparatus</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 2, p. 65.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.333998.016
label: catalog number
content: 333997.016
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Graduate, Apothecary
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.3 cm x 5.7 cm; 4 1/16 in x 2 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 3 in x 2 3/4 in; 10.4775 cm x 7.62 cm x 6.985 cm