Electrophoresis Instrument
date: label: date made
content: late 1940s
name: label: maker
content: Spinco
notes: label: Description
content: Electrophoresis, a technique used to separate nucleic acids and proteins based on their size and charge, was developed in the 1930s. Klett Manufacturing, an American firm, made the first commercial electrophoresis model in 1945. Other firms followed soon thereafter. An inscription on this example reads “Serial No. 70 / SPINCO.”
label: Description
content: Spinco—the name derived from Specialized Instruments Company—was established in 1946 by two scientists, Maurice C. Hanafin and Edward Greydon Pickels. Beckman Instruments purchased the firm in 1954.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: West Virginia University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0797.02.1
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0797.02.1
label: accession number
content: 1991.0797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrophoresis Instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 137.8 cm x 249 cm; 54 1/4 in x 98 1/16 in