Hydrometer
name: label: Associated Name
content: E. E. Dickinson & Co.
label: maker
content: E. E. Dickinson & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Glass hydrometer with red ballast and paper scale. The “E. E. Dickinson & Co., Essex” inscription on a paper inside the hydrometer refers to a Connecticut firm known primarily as a producer of witch hazel. The hydrometer is contained in a turned-wood case with a paper label.
label: Description
content: The label states that the hydrometer was "given as a premium" with purchases of the company's Double-Distilled Witch Hazel. As a major producer of witch hazel in the United States, the company would have supplied other manufacturer's of pharmaceuticals and toiletries.
label: Description
content: The inscription on the calibration scale inside the hydrometer reads “G. Tagliabue, 302 Pearl St. N.Y.” Giuseppe Tagliabue (1812-1878) was born in Italy, apprenticed in England, came to the U.S. in 1834, and set up shop making and selling such instruments as thermometers, barometers and hydrometers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Essex
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12888.01
label: catalog number
content: M-12888
label: accession number
content: 288176
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hydrometer, Beaume
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 1 7/16 in; 16.51 cm x 3.683 cm