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cylinder

Datelate 19th-early 20th Century
Inventory Number4303
ClassificationGlassware
Subject
    Cultural Region
      Dimensions23.6 x 6.6 x 4.8 cm (9 5/16 x 2 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
      blue board box: 8.9 × 45.7 × 55.9 cm (3 1/2 × 18 × 22 in.)
      Material
        DescriptionCylinder with a closed base and that narrows at the neck. Half way up the tube there are four small projections to the inside that are evenly spaced around the circumference. There is a small side neck near the top.
        Signedunsigned
        cylinder
        American
        Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
        Object number: 4302
        polar planimeter
        German
        Date: after 1856
        Object number: 1999-1-0067
        tube (with hole)
        American
        Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
        Object number: 4314
        Olivier geometric string figure of a cylinder
        Fabre et Cie
        Date: circa 1856
        Object number: 5467
        burette
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Object number: 4825
        burette
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Object number: 4826
        Olivier geometric string figure of two intersecting cylinders
        Fabre et Cie
        Date: circa 1856
        Object number: 5468
        compensating polar planimeter
        G. Coradi
        Date: circa 1911
        Accessories: conversion table on white card in instrument case; instrument case
        Object number: 1999-1-0068
        Hickman's three-stage self-fractionating diffusion pump
        Distillation Products Industries
        Date: circa 1940
        Object number: 1998-1-0034
        cylinder with mouth
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Object number: 1998-1-1117
        Amsler integrator
        Jakob Amsler
        Date: circa 1906
        Accessories: instrument is in four (4) parts; the rail is in own box and is inventory # 2006-1-0002b; letter from Prof. William Brower containing the complete history of ownership and use (missing)
        Object number: 2006-1-0002a
        rotating clock cylinder, nonslotted, for self-recording anemometer
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Accessories: steel spindle assemblage
        Object number: 1996-1-0729a