Culture Media Tube: Glucose Gelatin No. 2
Culture Media Tube: Glucose Gelatin No. 2
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- Description
- Glass test tube with paper label and cotton wool stopper. Dried culture media in tube. Paper label has lines for recording "Name" and "Date". The tube is one of 50 tubes in the Parke, Davis & Company Culture Media Set (MG.142336.01).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- biological
- culture media, glycerin agar
- culture media test tube
- date made
- 1898
- maker
- Parke, Davis and Company
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- cotton wool (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- glucose gelatin (contents material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 2.2225 cm
- overall: 9 cm x 2.2 cm; 3 17/32 in x 7/8 in
- ID Number
- MG.142336.04
- catalog number
- 142336.04
- accession number
- 33542
- 33542
- Credit Line
- Gift of Parke, Davis & Company
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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