Lactometer
name: label: patented by
content: Heusmer, Louis
notes: label: Description
content: This lactometer was devised by Louis Heusner, a physician in Bavaria. It consists of parallel transparent plates for comparing the color of a sample with that of a standard. The inscription on the cardboard box reads “D. HEUSNER’S PATENT MILCHSPIEGEL” and “Das Einfüllen der Milch.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Louis Heusner, “Lactometer,” U.S. Patent 190587 (May 8, 1877).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315298
label: accession number
content: 219305
label: catalog number
content: 315298
label: patent number
content: 190587
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lactometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: carton: 2 in; x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: instrument: 1 3/4 in; x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 3/16 in; 1.905 cm x 5.55625 cm