Innoculating Turntable
name: label: user
content: Genentech, Inc.
label: maker
content: Fisher Scientific Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This inoculating turntable consists of a circular platform that rotates on its base. A petri dish was placed on the turntable, which was spun by hand. This allowed a laboratory technician to streak bacteria onto the dish in even concentric circles.
label: Description (Brief)
content: It was used in the laboratories at Genentech, a biotechnology company.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Source:
label: Description (Brief)
content: Fischer Scientific. “Fischer Scientific Inoculating Turntables.” http://www.fishersci.com/ecomm/servlet/fsproductdetail_10652_791058__-1_0
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: California, South San Francisco
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Biotechnology and Genetics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Genentech
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0198.53
label: accession number
content: 2012.0198
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0198.53
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stand, petri dish
label: Object Name
content: innoculating turntable
label: Object Name
content: streaking agar plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 13.335 cm