Spirit Meter
date: label: Date made
content: 1874
name: label: patented by
content: Tagliabue, Giuseppe
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Giuseppe Tagliabue, “Improvement in Apparatus for Ascertaining the Proof-Spirits in Fermented Mash,” U.S. Patent 111,885 (Feb. 14, 1871). Giuseppe Tagliabue (1812-1878), an Italian immigrant, was in New York by 1834, making and selling barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, and such.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.308938
label: catalog number
content: 308938
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 111,885
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spirit Measure
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 5 1/4 in x 3 11/16 in; 30.48 cm x 13.335 cm x 9.36625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 29.21 cm x 12.065 cm x 9.525 cm