Electric Drying Oven
name: label: retailer
content: Fisher Scientific Company
label: maker
content: Freas Thermo-Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: Thomas B. Freas (1868-1928) was a chemist at Columbia University who, in collaboration with Eimer & Amend, a leading New York instrument firm, developed an oven, with a bi-metallic thermo-regulator, that was suitable for chemical and biological experiments. In 1913, he established the Thermo-Electric Co., in Newark, N.J., to manufacture these ovens.
label: Description
content: One tag on the bottom of this example reads "SOLD BY FISHER SCIENTIFIC CO., PITTSBURGH, PA." Another reads "N B S 5299."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.337150
label: catalog number
content: 337150
label: accession number
content: 1979.0026
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oven
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.2 cm x 30 cm x 33 cm; 11 1/2 in x 11 13/16 in x 13 in