Fluorometer
date: label: date made
content: around 1960
name: label: maker
content: Farrand Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Clair Loring Farrand (1895-1981), an inventor best known for his work with the cone loudspeaker, began his career as a Marconi radio operator. He established the Farrand Optical Company in 1941, bought a factory in the Bronx, and made optics for the U.S. Army and Navy during World War II. The firm moved to Mount Vernon, New York, in the mid-1960s.
label: Description
content: Farrand began manufacturing fluorometers in the 1950s. The inscription on this example reads “Fluorometer / MODEL A SER 202 / FARRAND OPTICAL / NEW YORK / PAT. PEND.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Farrand Photoelectric Fluorometer in <i>Science</i> ns 129 (May 8, 1959): 1293.
label: Description
content: Farrand ad in <i>Analytical Chemistry</i> 34 (Feb. 1962): 183A.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from NIH
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0535.03
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0535.03
label: accession number
content: 1981.0535
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fluorimeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: instruments: 22.3 cm x 28 cm x 39 cm; 8 3/4 in x 11 in x 15 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: each opening: 70 mm x 10 mm; 2 3/4 in x 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: holder overall: 95 mm x 50 mm; 3 3/4 in x 1 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 8 7/8 in x 15 3/8 in x 10 13/16 in; 22.5425 cm x 39.0525 cm x 27.46375 cm