Fermentation Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Theobald Smith (1859-1934), an epidemiologist then working at the Bureau of Animal Industry, introduced this type of fermentation tube in 1893. The "K" inscription indicates that this footed example was made by the Kimble Glass Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Theobald Smith, “Fermentation Tube with Special Reference to Anaerobiosis and Gas Production among Bacteria,” Wilder Quarter Century Book (Ithaca, N.Y., 1893): 187-233.
label: Description
content: Eimer & Amend, Revised and Enlarged Catalogue of Bacteriological Apparatus (New York, 1907), p. 101.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas, Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents (Philadelphia, 1914), p. 209.
label: Description
content: Hans Zinsser, “Biographical Memoir of Theobald Smith,” Reviews of Infectious Diseases 9 (1987): 636-654.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Michigan Medical School. Department of Microbiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.253100.30
label: catalog number
content: 253100.30
label: accession number
content: 253100
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fermentation tube
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 in x 2 in; 13.97 cm x 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm