Hydrometer
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- OBJECT TYPE
- Baume/specific gravity/heavy liquids
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2009.0047.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Taylor Instrument Cos.
- MODEL
- Permax 4420
- LOCATION
- Rochester, New York, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 12A501614
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- glass shell/ paper label/ lead? shot
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 29.0 cm
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- 1.9 cm
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Agriculture
- Category
- Research
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Taylor Instrument
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New York
- City
- Rochester
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- 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
-
An instrument used to measure the specific gravity of liquids. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Black lettering on paper reads: "Baume Scale for Syrup., Temp. 60 [degrees] F."/ Scale from 0 to 50/ Other side of paper reads: "Taylor - Permax Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A. PAT. 2035603"/ Handwritten above: "12A501614"/
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Colourless, transparent glass/ stem has a white paper in it with the graduation markings/ grey shot
- Decoration
- N/A
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Taylor Instrument Cos., Hydrometer, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 2009.0047, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2009.0047.001/
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