Chart, colour mixing

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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1958
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2009.0039.001

MANUFACTURER: MUNSELL COLOR CO. INC.
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Cardboard disks/ metal mount

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 13.5 cm
Width: 8.4 cm
Height: 4.5 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Agriculture
Category: Research
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: MUNSELL
Country: United States of America
State/Province: Maryland
City: Baltimore

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Unknown
Period: c. 1958 - 1961
Canada: Instrument used by Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Agriculture Canada. The lot with which this refractometer arrived contained tomato juice testing equipment, which was designed to pinpoint the colour of the juice based on benchmark colour charts. However, refractometers could be used to test a number of things, including, for instance, honey, grape juice, wine, and maple syrup.
Function: To blend certain colours on a spinning disk to achieve a final colour used to determine a particular colour.
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: Grey disk with number number graduation from 1 to 100/ Print on the backside of disks is illegible unless the disks are taken apart.
Missing: N/A
Finish: Red, orange, black and grey cardboard colour disks/ Grey disk with number number graduation from 1 to 100/ Disks mounted on a metal spring loaded mount
Decoration: N/A

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MUNSELL COLOR CO. INC., Chart, colour mixing, circa 1958, Artifact no. 2009.0039, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2009.0039.001/

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