Hydrometer
notes: label: Description
content: This is a (broken) glass hydrometer; the paper label in the stem reads “For Acids” and has a scale from 0 to 20. A label on the cardboard box reads “FROM / ERNEST GOLDBACHER / OPTICIAN / NO. 98 FULTON ST. / NEW YORK.”
label: Description
content: This was owned by Enoch T. Winter (d. 1871), a Yale graduate (class of 1845), and a physician in Harlem, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernest Goldbacher, <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Optical, Meteorological, and Mathematical Instruments</i> (New York, 1878), pp. 98-99.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frances M. Cosine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02227
label: catalog number
content: M-02227
label: accession number
content: 95819
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hydrometer
label: Object Name
content: urine testing
label: Other Terms
content: Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 1 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 4.445 cm x 12.065 cm
label: Measurements
content: hydrometer: 3 7/8 in x 1 in; x 9.8425 cm x 2.54 cm