Air Sampler
notes: label: Description
content: Sedgwick-Tucker air sampler or aerobioscope. William Thompson Sedgwick (1855-1921) was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University who taught biology and public health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Greenleaf R. Tucker (d. 1934) taught chemistry at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. T. Sedgwick and G. R. Tucker, “A New Method for the Biological Examination of Air, with a Description of the Aerobioscope,” presented to the National Academy of Sciences in 1888.
label: Description
content: “The Public Health Work of Professor Sedgwick,” Science 53 (Feb. 25, 1921): 171-178.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Michigan Medical School. Department of Microbiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.253100.07.01
label: catalog number
content: 253100.07
label: accession number
content: 253100
objectType: label: Object Name
content: apparatus
label: Object Name
content: air sampler
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 in x 16 in x 16 in; 83.82 cm x 40.64 cm x 40.64 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/2 in x 19 in x 11 1/2 in; 57.15 cm x 48.26 cm x 29.21 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7107: 38 in x 72 in x 48 in; 96.52 cm x 182.88 cm x 121.92 cm