Conical Graduate
Conical Graduate
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- Description (Brief)
- The glass graduate is a form of glassware used for measuring precise volumes of liquids, particularly by pharmacists. Over time, the graduate has been produced in a variety of shapes, from a flat-bottomed, beaker form to a footed cylinder, tumbler, or cone.
- Whitall Tatum Company was among the first American glass companies to manufacture chemical glassware, starting as early as the late 1870s. Based in Millville, New Jersey, the company’s factory produced chemical and other glassware for over 150 years, finally closing its doors in 1999.
- Whitall Tatum donated this object to the museum in 1931, at the request of Charles Whitebread, assistant curator in the Division of Medicine. Whitebread planned to use the object as a part of a series of exhibits illustrating “historical and practical phases of medicine and pharmacy.”
- Sources:
- Harrison, Charles. Cumberland County, New Jersey: 265 Years of History. The History Press, 2013.
- Levy, Bernard. “Pharmacy Graduates in Use from 1880 to 1920.” Pharmacy in History 26, no. 3 (1984): 150–54.
- National Museum of American History Accession File #113583
- Rosenfeld, Louis. Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry. CRC Press, 1999.
- Whitall Tatum & Company. “Whitall Tatum & Co. Glass Ware,” 1879.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- graduate
- date made
- ca 1931
- maker
- Whitall Tatum Company
- Measurements
- overall: 6 5/8 in x 2 13/16 in x 3 1/16 in; 16.8275 cm x 7.14375 cm x 7.77875 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-03012
- accession number
- 113583
- catalog number
- M-03012
- Credit Line
- Gift of Whitall Tatum Company
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Science Under Glass
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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