Hydrometer
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- OBJECT TYPE
- UNIFORM SCALE
- DATE
- 1940
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1987.0854.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Cossor
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- London, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 873
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- GLASS TUBE/ METAL? BALLS IN BULB/ PAPER? SCALE/ CARDBOARD TUBE.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- 26.1 cm
- Height
- 5.2 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Meteorology
- Category
- Miscellaneous
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Cossor
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- London
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
INSTRUMENT FOR DETERMINING THE SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF A LIQUID OR SUSPENSION, INDICATING GRAMS OF SUSPENDED MATERIAL PER LITRE. - Technical
-
AN EXAMPLE OF A BRITISH MADE HYDROMETER, MARKED 'MO', PROBABLY FOR 'METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE'. IT HAS AN ARBITRARY SCALE WITH UNIFROM GRADUATIONS RATHER THAN A DIRECT READING SCALE WITH INCREMENTS MUCH SMALLER AT THE LOWER END THAN THE UPPER TO INDICATE ACTUAL DENSITY (REF. 1). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- SCALE MARKED 35 TO 15, '873' WITH BRITISH METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE LOGO, 'COSSOR', 'LONDON', 'GRAMS PER LITRE @ 28 S.A.'.
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- CLEAR, COLOURLESS GLASS/ MAROON PAPER COVERING ON TUBE.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Cossor, Hydrometer, 1940, Artifact no. 1987.0854, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1987.0854.001/
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