Hydrometer
Hydrometer
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- Description
- Silver hydrometer with egg shaped bulb, and 15 weights that can screw onto the bottom. The scale on the stem read from minus 10 to plus 40.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- hydrometer
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- tin (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 23.8 cm x 4.8 cm; x 9 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in
- overall in container: 9 1/8 in x 2 1/16 in; 23.1775 cm x 5.23875 cm
- ID Number
- 1992.0371.01
- catalog number
- 1992.0371.01
- accession number
- 1992.0371
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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