Specific Gravity Bottle
name: label: maker
content: Arthur H. Thomas Company
notes: label: Description
content: This specific gravity bottle is based on the design of Henri Le Chatelier, an industrial chemist in Paris with a stated desire to apply scientific methods to industrial problems. His 1887 doctoral dissertation concerned the constitution of hydraulic cements. The “A.H.T.” inscription on the bottle is that of Arthur H. Thomas, an important scientific apparatus firm in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: By 1921, Arhur H. Thomas was offering a “Specific Gravity Bottle, Le Chatelier, New Form, in accordance with the U.S. Bureau of Standards requirements, and as used in the U.S. Government test for Portland cement.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur H. Thomas, Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 114.
label: Description
content: “Henri Le Chatelier,” The Metallurgist 4 (1901): 265-271.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania Chemistry Lab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316055
label: catalog number
content: 316055
label: accession number
content: 217523
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Specific Gravity Bottle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 15/16 in x 3 9/16 in; 25.24125 cm x 9.04875 cm