Hydrometer
notes: label: Description
content: Large glass hydrometer with thermometer, mercury ballast, and paper label marked “Alkoholometer nach Richter und Tralles, Temp. 0 = 12½ Reaum” and “Von Schaffer & Budenberg in Magdeburg.” There is also a glass test cylinder. Bernard Schaffer and his brother-in-law, Friedrich Budenberg, began in business in 1850, in the Prussian town of Magdeburg, making pressure gauges and other mechanical instruments. This firm later became the Budenberg Gauge Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319733
label: catalog number
content: 319733
label: accession number
content: 239019
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hydrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in; 45.72 cm x 6.35 cm x 7.9375 cm
label: Measurements
content: hydrometer: 16 in x 3/4 in; 40.64 cm x 1.905 cm
label: Measurements
content: cylinder: 17 in; 43.18 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 2 3/4 in x 18 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 6.985 cm x 46.355 cm x 7.9375 cm