Color Comparator
name: label: maker
content: Wallace & Tiernan
notes: label: Description
content: Color comparator for water analysis, with a “WALLACE & TIERNAN / COMPARATOR” inscription. The inscription on the cover of the box reads “WALLACE & TIERNAN / NEWARK, N.J.”
label: Description
content: In 1908, having spent some time at Wooster College and the University of Michigan, Charles Frederick Wallace (1885-1964) moved to New York City. While working for the Gerard Ozone Process Company he met Martin Tiernan (1883-1968), a graduate of the University of Rochester and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wallace and Tiernan began their own company in 1911 and introduced the world's first chlorinator in 1913.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Charles F. Wallace, Inventor-Scientist,” New York Times (June 4, 1964), p. 37.
label: Description
content: “Martin Tiernan, Chemicals Maker,” New York Times (March 25, 1968), p. 41.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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: 1986.0765.01
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0765.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0765
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comparator, color, for water analysis
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 10 cm x 11 cm; 6 5/16 in x 3 15/16 in x 4 11/32 in