Hydrometer
notes: label: Description
content: Glass hydrometer with shot ballast, and paper label reading “Per cents of Sugar at 60 Fahr. Balling Saccharimeter.” The scale extends from 0 to 10. There is also a stamp reading “U.S. Internal Revenue Standard Hydrometer, A7464, Series of 1909.” “U.S. / 1911” is etched onto the glass. Carl Joseph Napoleon Balling (1805-1868) was a Bohemian chemist who, in 1843, designed a saccharimeter that indicates the saccharine content of a sugar solution.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Internal Revenue Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.327001.01
label: catalog number
content: 327001.01
label: accession number
content: 267815
label: serial number
content: A 7464
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hydrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 1 in; 28.575 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 1 1/4 in x 12 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 30.7975 cm x 3.175 cm