Hydrometer
date: label: date made
content: around 1860
name: label: Associated Name
content: Tagliabue, John
label: maker
content: Tagliabue, John
notes: label: Description
content: Glass hydrometer with shot ballast, and paper label marked “ACTINO-HYDROMETER Entered according to Act of Congress, in 1855, by JOHN TAGLIABUE, 66 Fulton St. N.Y.” There is also a glass cylinder, and a wooden cylindrical case.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Ross, <i>Scale and Tables Adapted to the Actino-Hydrometer</i> (New York, 1861); this was published by J. Tagliabue.
label: Description
content: “John Tagliabue” in <i>Illustrated New York: The Metropolis of Today</i> (New York, 1888), p. 219.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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.336639
label: catalog number
content: 336639
label: accession number
content: 1978.0423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hydrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/16 in x 1 15/16 in; 18.89125 cm x 4.92125 cm
label: Measurements
content: hyrometer: 5 7/8 in; 14.9225 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 7 5/16 in x 1 15/16 in; 18.57375 cm x 4.92125 cm