Object Details
- Description
- With the Reinhardt desiccator, “the whole interior space can be used.” And, “the air-tight ground glass cover cannot slip off, as the flange around the top is slightly turned upward.” C. Reinhardt (1859-1905), a German chemist, introduced the form in the 1890s.
- Ref: Eimer & Amend, Revised and Enlarged Catalogue of Bacteriological Apparatus (New York, 1907), p. 157.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- ID Number
- 2017.0184.023
- catalog number
- 2017.0184.023
- accession number
- 2017.0184
- Object Name
- desiccator
- Physical Description
- glass (cover material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 cm x 3 cm; 5 1/2 in x 1 3/16 in
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_722425
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-5caf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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