grease (?)
Datelate 19th-mid 20th Century
Inventory Number1998-1-1018
ClassificationLubricator
Subject
Maker
English
Cultural Region
Dimensions11.3 x 3.1 cm (4 7/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Material
DescriptionA silver and red foil tube and screw cap, dented and creased, containing grease or another lubricant, possibly used for greasing joints. The tube is partially empty, and has a greasy and deteriorated label, partially affixed, which reads, "MADE IN ENGLAND."
Signedunsigned
Inscribedon label: MADE IN ENGLAND
FunctionUsed for greasing joints.
Edison Manufacturing Company
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Accessories: 12 light bulbs in a shoe box
Object number: 1997-1-0778
Sylvania
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: RS0368
Edison Manufacturing Company
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: RS0370
Ernst Leitz (company)
Date: circa 1937
Accessories: standard eyepieces (3): 8X P, Periplan. OK 10X, and Periplan. Ok. 25X; wide eyepieces (3): 1, 1, 8X, 10X; objectives (4) in fitted case: 1b 4.3X, 3 10X, P7 62X, P 1/12 oel; waveplates (2); condenser with polarizer; mechanical stage; loupe 6x; box of cover glasses; standing case; key; objective adaptors (4); and watch keys (2)
Object number: 1999-1-0020a
Date: 1890-1930
Object number: RS0508
Sylvania
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Accessories: brown cardboard box, with handwritten note, "345 on 35"
Object number: RS0369
Nuclear Measurements Corporation
Date: circa 1959
Object number: 2003-1-0047
B.A.S.F. Ammoniaklaboratorium
Date: 1932-1935
Accessories: 2 cases: a felt-lined silver metal tube and a larger brown cardboard tube
Object number: 1996-1-0725
Radium Chemical Company
Date: circa 1900
Accessories: metal needles (2); black rubber tubes with one conical end (5); large black pellets with small metal tubes protruding from the center (2); brown rubber tubes (4); dumbbell-like objects (2); small black caps (4); large black objects with rectangles gouged out of them (2); black cylindrical canisters (4); a metal tube with a screw top; and a bucket of misc. objects
Object number: 1998-1-0115