Reciprocal Water Bath Shaker
date: label: date purchased for the Cohen Lab
content: 1970
notes: label: Description
content: David Freedman (1921-2010), a self-taught engineer, and his brother Sigmund, established the New Brunswick Tool & Die Co., in New Brunswick, N.J., in 1946. The firm was incorporated as New Brunswick Scientific in 1958. In May 1988, it was sold to Millipore Corp. for $15 million.
label: Description
content: The turning point came when professors from the microbiology department at Rutgers University asked the firm to repair a "shaking machine" that would constantly move bacterial cultures to keep them from congealing. The Rutgers team was led by Selman Waksman, who had just helped discover antibiotics, and the department was in the throes of groundbreaking research. The improved shaker designed and built by David Freedman would become the flagship of the firm’s product line.
label: Description
content: A tag on this example reads "RECIPROCAL WATER BATH SHAKER MODEL 76 NEW BRUNSWICK SCIENTIFIC CO., INC."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Edison
label: associated place
content: United States: California, Stanford
topic: label: Subject
content: Jews
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Stanley N. Cohen, MD and Stanford University Medical Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0757.43
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0757.43
label: accession number
content: 1987.0757
label: serial number
content: 9635
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Water Bath
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mercury (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 56 cm x 40.8 cm x 62.5 cm; 22 1/16 in x 16 1/16 in x 24 19/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 in x 29 in x 93 in; 78.74 cm x 73.66 cm x 236.22 cm