Tester, soil
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- OBJECT TYPE
- COMPRESSION
- DATE
- 1950–1960
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2003.0049.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Wykeham Farrance Eng. Ltd.
- MODEL
- CON.1
- LOCATION
- Slough, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 564
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL FRAME, WORKING PARTS/ SYNTHETIC CYLINDER/ WOOD BASE
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Physics
- Category
- Geophysics
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Wykeham Farrance
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Slough
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1950S
- Canada
-
FROM NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA, ONE OF CANADA'S FOREMOST RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENTS IN NUMBER OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGICAL AREAS. IT WAS USED FOR SOIL TESTS AT M-17 AT NRC AMONG OTHER PROJECTS. - Function
-
INSTRUMENT USED TO TEST CPMPRESSION OF SOIL, TO DETERMINE IF IT WAS SAFE TO BUILD ON IT ETC. - Technical
-
SOIL TESTING APPARATUS OF 1950S; SIMILAR MODEL IS STILL AVAILABLE IN 2004 FROM WYKEHAM-FARRANCE (REF. 1) - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- PLATES READING "WYKEHAM FARRANCE ENG. LTD./ SLOUGH/ ENGLAND" & "MODEL No CON.1./ SERIAL No 564"/ LABEL READING "Property of/Propriete du/ NRCC/CNRC/ 126791"
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- PAINTED MOTTLED GREY & FLAT GREY/ COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT SYNTHETIC/ FLAT GREY PAINTED BASE
- Decoration
- N/A
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Wykeham Farrance Eng. Ltd., Tester, soil, between 1950–1960, Artifact no. 2003.0049, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2003.0049.001/
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