Beaker
name: label: maker
content: Kimax
label: maker
content: Owens-Illinois Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Small graduated glass beaker with two side arms, designed for microanalysis, with a “400 ml Kimax USA No. 14000” inscription. The Kimble Glass Company in Toledo, Ohio, a subsidiary of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, developed K-33, a borosilicate glass that could withstand high temperatures (it had a melting point of 1,508 degrees F.), and introduced it to the market in 1957. Owens-Illinois introduced the term Kimax in 1956 and registered it as a trademark in 1957.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Laboratory Glass Developed,” New York Times (Sept. 3, 1957), p. 39.
label: Description
content: “Develop Hard Glass for High Temperature Uses,” Science News Letter 72 (Sept. 14, 1957): 163.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas ad in Science n.s. 126 (Sept. 20, 1957): 582.
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: 2004.0147.003
label: accession number
content: 2004.0147
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0147.003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beaker
label: Object Name
content: Beaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.4 cm x 14.5 cm x 7.5 cm; 4 3/32 in x 5 23/32 in x 2 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 10.795 cm x 14.605 cm x 8.255 cm