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test tube
test tube

test tube

Datelate 19th-early 20th Century
Inventory Number1997-1-1312
ClassificationGlassware
Subject
    Cultural Region
      Dimensions16.4 x 2.3 x 2.3 cm (6 7/16 x 7/8 x 7/8 in.)
      blue board box: 8.9 × 45.7 × 55.9 cm (3 1/2 × 18 × 22 in.)
      Material
        Accessoriescork stopper
        DescriptionThis is a test tube made from transparent glass, open on one end, and closed on the other. There is a tan cork stopper wedged into the top.
        Signedunsigned
        test tube
        American
        Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
        Accessories: cork stopper
        Object number: 1997-1-1310
        glass bottle
        American
        Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
        Accessories: tan cork stopper
        Object number: 1998-1-1219
        Flask with test tube
        American
        Date: 20th-mid 20th Century
        Accessories: cork stopper, woven holder
        Object number: 1997-1-1900
        test tube
        American
        Date: mid 20th-late 20th Century
        Accessories: cork
        Object number: 1997-1-1532
        cylindrical bottle
        American
        Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
        Accessories: cork stopper
        Object number: 4714
        double flasks connected by Z-shaped tube
        American
        Date: 1870-1920
        Accessories: contains cork stopper with thin glass tube
        Object number: 4270
        Quincke's tubes (4)
        C. H. Stoelting Company
        Date: circa 1900
        Accessories: cork stoppers inserted in tube ends
        Object number: WJ0070a,b,c,d
        Pulfrich refractometer by Zeiss
        Carl Zeiss Jena
        Date: circa 1926
        Accessories: wooden box with two hook-and-eye latches to fasten front opening; in instrument file: instruction book (photocopy); Geissler tube labeled "H2"; carboard tube containing German thermometer C in stainless steel holder that screws into instrument; glass bottle with cork stopper labeled "Monobromnaphthalin, Germany nD=1 658"; small round cardboard box labeled "For Pulfrich Refractometer" containing one tubulure
        Object number: 1996-1-0229
        container
        Schott Jenaer Glaswerk
        Date: 1890-1940
        Accessories: cork stopper
        Object number: 1997-1-1967
        Box of stoppers
        American
        Date: early 20th-mid 20th Century
        Accessories: A cardboard box which contains the plastic box of gypsum and assortment of glass and cork stoppers. Printed on the lid and sides of the cardboard box are the inscriptions, "Dovre / Ski Binding" with an illustration of a downhill skier; "Manufactured by / Dovre Ski Binding Inc. / West Concord, Mass."; "Douvre / Model 300 / Type / $150."
        Object number: 1997-1-1947
        box of stoppers
        American
        Date: 20th Century
        Accessories: 14 stoppers (2 rubber, 12 cork)
        Object number: 1998-1-0435
        box of cork and rubber stoppers
        American
        Date: 20th Century
        Accessories: 34 cork stoppers, 2 rubber ones (one with two holes)
        Object number: 1998-1-0547