Gelometer
date: label: Date made
content: 1925
name: label: maker
content: Chicago Apparatus Company
notes: label: Description
content: Oscar T. Bloom (1881-1965), a chemist working for the Chicago meat-packing firm of Swift & Co., invented a Gelometer to measure the gelatin strength of such things as glues and gelatins. This example has a "Chicago Apparatus Co." inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: Oscar T. Bloom, “Machine for Testing Jelly Strength of Glues, Gelatins and the Like,” U.S. Patent 1,540,979 (June 9, 1925), assigned to Swift & Co.
label: Description
content: “Cattle Puncher Ends His Career In Stock Yards,” Chicago Tribune (May 26, 1946), p. SW1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316596
label: catalog number
content: 316596
label: accession number
content: 225869
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scale, Electrical Bulk Weighing Machine Dispenser
label: Object Name
content: Gelotometer
label: Object Name
content: Gelometer
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 3/4 in x 9 in x 11 in; 65.405 cm x 22.86 cm x 27.94 cm
label: Measurements
content: base: 8 in x 11 in; x 20.32 cm x 27.94 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 3/4 in x 7 7/8 in x 11 1/4 in; 65.405 cm x 20.0025 cm x 28.575 cm