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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 sieve, with wood frame and brass wire mesh, to the Smithsonian in 1959.
- Ref: Henry Heil Chemical Co., Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus (St. Louis, 1904), p. 385..
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Sieve
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: 73 mm x 180 mm; 2 7/8 in x 7 1/16 in
- overall: 2 13/16 in x 7 1/8 in; 7.14375 cm x 18.0975 cm
- ID Number
- CH.316634.03
- catalog number
- 316634.03
- accession number
- 225570
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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