Pellet Press
name: label: maker
content: Parr Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Pellet press with a "Made in the USA by Parr Instrument Co. Moline, Illinois" inscription. Samuel Wilson Parr (1857-1931), a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois, designed a calorimeter for measuring the heat value of coal, and established the Standard Calorimeter Company in Champaign, Ill. in 1899. The firm moved to East Moline in 1911, and to Moline after World War I. It became the Parr Instrument Company in 1933.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Moline
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.183
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.183
label: collector/donor number
content: S1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press
label: Object Name
content: press, pellet
label: Other Terms
content: Press; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 13/16 in x 5 in x 10 1/4 in; 24.92375 cm x 12.7 cm x 26.035 cm