Mineralogical Field Kit
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1898
name: label: property of
content: Richards, Robert H.
label: originator
content: Plattner, Karl Friedrich
label: maker
content: Plattner, Karl Friedrich
notes: label: Description
content: This sturdy wooden box contains glass bottles and vials of material suitable for mineralogical analysis. There is an ivory scale marked “Lingke in Freiburg.” And there is a circular brass box containing 36 small samples of silver/gold alloys, ranging from 0 to 100% silver, mounted on a porcelain plate. The “F. W. Lingke / Bergmechanicus / in / FREIBERG IN SACHSEN . . .” inscription on the paper label in the lid of the box refers to Wilhelm Friedrich Lingke (1784-1867), a mathematical and chemical instrument maker in Freiburg.
label: Description
content: Victor Goldschmidt, a professor of metallurgy at the University of Heidelberg, gave this kit to Robert Hallowell Richards, a metallurgist and mining engineer at M.I.T. Richards gave it to the metallurgist, Gar A. Roush; and Roush’s widow gave it to the Smithsonian.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. G. A. Roush
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315918.02
label: accession number
content: 222975
label: catalog number
content: 315918.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus for Mineralogical Analysis
label: Object Name
content: Mineralogical Assay Kit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 8 3/4 in x 11 3/4 in; 10.16 cm x 22.225 cm x 29.845 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 13/16 in x 11 7/8 in x 8 3/4 in; 9.68375 cm x 30.1625 cm x 22.225 cm