Carborundum Test
date: label: date made
content: 1892
notes: label: Description
content: While silicon carbide exists in nature, Edward Goodrich Acheson produced it artificially in 1890, and named it carborundum. This document from the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, Ltd., dated March 3, 1892, is from an early test of carborundum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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.318502
label: accession number
content: 108512
label: catalog number
content: 318502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: document
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/16 in x 5 1/2 in; 21.43125 cm x 13.97 cm