Saccharimeter
name: label: maker
content: Heele, Hans
notes: label: Description
content: Half-shadow saccharimeter marked “HEELE, BERLIN.” The signature refers to Hans Heele, a German artisan who made a wide range of precision optical and mechanical instruments. Heele worked closely with the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Charlottenburg, and won prize medals at the international exhibitions held in Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), St. Louis (1904), and Brussels (1910). The instrument was probably made before 1923, when Heele’s firm was acquired by Bamberg.
label: Description
content: The circle of this instrument is about eight inches diameter, finely graduated, and read by vernier and microscope. There are four glass observation tubes: one marked “100”; two marked “200”; and one, 200 mm long, with fitting for thermometer. An additional glass tube is marked “FRANZ SCHMIDT & HAENSCH / BERLIN” and “D.R.G.M. 60239.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
topic: label: Subject
content: Optics
label: Subject
content: Chemistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Saccharimeters
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bowdoin College, Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329722
label: accession number
content: 278336
label: catalog number
content: 329722
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Saccharimeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 cm x 57 cm x 25 cm; 9 7/16 in x 22 7/16 in x 9 27/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 9 1/4 in x 22 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in; 23.495 cm x 57.15 cm x 24.765 cm