Lactometer
name: label: maker
content: Arthur H. Thomas Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass hydrometer with ballast and paper label; inscriptions on the cardboard box read “NO. 7237 / LACTOMETER / HORN” and “ARTUR H. THOMAS CO.” David Wilbur Horn (1877-1962) was a graduate of Dickinson College who earned a chemistry PhD from Johns Hopkins University, and served as a chemistry teacher and consultant in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: Ref: David Wilbur Horn, “A Rational Lactometer,” Bulletin of the Wagner Free Institute of Science 10 (1935): 1-10.
label: Description
content: “Dr. David W. Horn,” New York Times (Aug. 8, 1962), p. 24.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11023
label: catalog number
content: M-11023
label: accession number
content: 259201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lactometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)