Hydrometer
notes: label: Description
content: Bartholomew Sikes was a British excise officer who in the 1790s, having recognized problems with the Clarke hydrometer then in use, designed an improved form and was appointed hydrometer maker to the United Kingdom. This is an unsigned and incomplete example of a Sikes-type instrument.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. C., “Memoir of the Late Mr. Bartholomew Sikes,” <i>Newcastle Magazine</i> 5 (Sept. 1826): 387-391.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.327012.1
label: accession number
content: 265930
label: catalog number
content: 327012.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hydrometer, Sikes's
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 11.43 cm x 2.8575 cm