Hydrometer
date: label: date made
content: about 1830
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph Long was an instrument maker who began in business at 20 Little Tower Street, London, in 1820. Four years later he introduced a new saccharometer designed for brewers. This example is of that sort. It is made of brass, and marked "Long's Improved / Saccharometer" and “Sold by / T. King / Clare St. Bristol.” The wooden sliding rule is marked “J. LONG . . . LONDON.” The back of the thermometer is brass, graduated from 40 to 220, and marked “BUSS / 33 HATTON GARDEN / LONDON.” Thomas O’Dempsey Buss (fl. 1847-1883) was a successor to Bate.
label: Description
content: Ref: Joseph Long, <i>Directions for Using the New Improved Saccharometer</i> (London, 1824).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.318176
label: catalog number
content: 318176
label: accession number
content: 232130
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hydrometer
label: Object Name
content: Hydrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: hydrometer: 10 3/8 in; 26.3525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 11 3/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 29.845 cm x 11.1125 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 2 1/8 in x 11 3/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 29.845 cm x 11.1125 cm