Wine Gauge
date: label: date made
content: 1870s
name: label: maker
content: Tagliabue, Giuseppe
notes: label: Description
content: This set of instruments, designed to test the strength of alcoholic beverages, consists of a brown wooden box holding two Baume hydrometers, two small thermometers and a copper jar. The paper labels in the hydrometers read “U.S. Government Standard Saccharometer, Tp. 62F G. Tagliabue” and “Internal Revenue.” The thermometers are inscribed “G. Tagliabue 302 Pearl St. N.Y.”
label: Description
content: Giuseppe Tagliabue (1812-1878) was born in Como, Italy, and, as a child, moved to England with his family. By 1834 he was living and working in New York. He bought and moved into a 4-story building at 298 Pearl St. in the late 1840s. In the late 1860s he moved his workshop to 302 Pearl St.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Daystrom Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319224
label: catalog number
content: 319224
label: accession number
content: 235391
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wine gauge
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 12 3/4 in x 6 in; 15.24 cm x 32.385 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 6 in x 12 3/4 in x 6 1/8 in; 15.24 cm x 32.385 cm x 15.5575 cm