Test Tube Rack
Test Tube Rack
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- Description
- Henry Heil (1854-1919) was born in Germany, moved to the United States in 1872, graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, and established the Henry Heil Chemical Co. in 1882. Heil Scientific, as the firm was later known, donated this complex wooden test tube rack to the Smithsonian in 1959.
- Ref: Henry Heil Chemical Co., Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus (St. Louis, 1904), p. 408.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Test Tube Rack
- Date made
- ca. 1900
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: 8 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in x 12 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 17.145 cm x 31.115 cm
- overall: 8 1/2 in x 19 3/4 in x 9 3/8 in; 21.59 cm x 50.165 cm x 23.8125 cm
- ID Number
- CH.316632
- catalog number
- 316632
- accession number
- 225570
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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