Wine Testing Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: During prohibition, the federal government established regulations for testing alcoholic beverages. A standard set of apparatus for standard and fortified wines contained 1 thermometer, 3 saccharometers, 3 alcoholometers, a glass cylinder, rubber tubing, and a copper still with condenser and stand. This set is of that kind.
label: Description
content: Ref: Treasury Department, Bureau of Prohibition, <i>Regulations No. 7 Relative to the Production, Fortification, Tax Payment, Etc., of Wine</i> (Washington, 1930), p. 159.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Prohibition
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Treasury Department Internal Revenue Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.327000
label: catalog number
content: 327000
label: accession number
content: 267815
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wine Testing Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: oak (box material)
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content: copper (boiler material)
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content: copper (heat shield material)
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content: brass (tube (2) material)
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content: tray (tray material)
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content: heat shield: 4 1/4 in x 4 in; 10.795 cm x 10.16 cm
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content: tube: 12 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 1.27 cm
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content: box: 11 in x 9 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in; 27.94 cm x 24.13 cm x 31.115 cm
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content: boiler: 5 in x 3 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 8.89 cm
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content: spirit lamp: 2 1/2 in x 3 7/8 in; 6.35 cm x 9.8425 cm
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content: assembled: 33 cm x 30.5 cm x 15.2 cm; 13 in x 12 in x 6 in
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content: overall in case: 10 7/8 in x 12 1/4 in x 9 5/16 in; 27.6225 cm x 31.115 cm x 23.65375 cm