Féry Refractometer
name: label: maker
content: Adam Hilger, Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: The French physicist, Charles Féry, described this type of instrument in 1891. The Parisian instrument maker, Ph. Pellin, promoted it for industrial purposes. This example is marked “ADAM HILGER LTD. LONDON ENGLAND.” Hilger trade literature describes it as “A direct reading refractometer for taking the refractive index for sodium light of oils; solutions of acids; mixtures of glycerine, alcohols, etc., with water; sugar solutions; and other liquids of interest to the industrial chemist.”
label: Description
content: Hilger trade literature indicates that the firm offered the Féry refractometer in 1913-1914, but dropped it in favor of other forms in the 1920s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Adam Hilger, Ltd., <i>General Catalogue</i> (London, 1913), p. M5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Chemistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.335219
label: catalog number
content: 335219
label: accession number
content: 315390
objectType: label: Object Name
content: refractometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 7/8 in x 11 11/16 in x 25 1/2 in; 40.3225 cm x 29.68625 cm x 64.77 cm