Standard, capacity
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- OBJECT TYPE
- TERTIARY/LINEAR/METRIC/BRASS
- DATE
- 1873
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0072.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Collot Frères
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Paris, France
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- BRASS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 50.3 cm
- Width
- 1.7 cm
- Height
- 1.7 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Metrology
- Category
- Volume
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Collot
- Country
- France
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Paris
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
IN 1884, BRITAIN, AND HENCE CANADA AS A MEMBER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, BECAME AN ADHERENT TO THE CONVENTION OF THE METRE, LEGALIZING THE METRIC SYSTEM. CANADA ADHERED IN ITS OWN RIGHT IN 1907. - Function
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USED TO CALCULATE THE VOLUME OF A CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER, FOR BOTH LIQUID AND DRY INGREDIENTS, BY MEASURING DEPTH AND DIAMETER. - Technical
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METRIC SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT, BASED ON THE DECIMAL SYSTEM, WAS INTRODUCED IN FRANCE AROUND 1795. IT REPLACED A LARGE NUMBER OF EXISTING MEASURES, MANY WITH REGIONAL VARIATIONS IN SIZE. IN 1875 INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF WEIGHTS & MEASURES WAS ESTABLISHED. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- LETTERING INCISED ON ONE SIDE: ' 1/C 2/C 1/2 D 1/D 2/D Demi/Litre Litre Double/Litre [ARROW] Diametre Mesures pour Les Liquides Hauteur [ARROW] Double/Litre Litre Demi/Litre 2/D 1/D 1/2 D 2/C 1/C'/ LETTERING INCISED ON OTHER SIDE: 'Collot Fres [IN CURSIVE] 1/C 2/C 1/2 D 1/D 2/D Demi/Litre Demi/Decalitre Decalitre Double/Decalitre Diametre et Hauteur/ des Mesures a Grains Demi/Hectolitre Hectolitre'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- LACQUERED
- Decoration
- N/A
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Collot Frères, Standard, capacity, after 1873, Artifact no. 1997.0072, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0072.001/
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