Kjeldahl Digestion Rack
Object Details
- Precision Scientific Company
- Description
- The Kjeldahl digestion rack, designed to determine protein, nitrogen and ammonia content of organic compounds, was developed by the Danish chemist, Johan Gustav Christoffer Thorsager Kjeldahl (1849–1900). A tag on this example reads in part “MODERN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND / PRODUCTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT / ENGINEERED AND BUILT BY THE / PRECISION SCIENTIFIC CO. / Made in U.S.A. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- ID Number
- 2017.0184.022.1
- catalog number
- 2017.0184.022.1
- accession number
- 2017.0184
- Object Name
- digestion rack
- public health
- Physical Description
- asbestos (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 54 cm x 5 cm; 21 1/4 in x 1 31/32 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_722499
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-5809-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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