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Device for Measuring Inhibited Zones for Penicillin Extraction

Inventory Number 18880


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.18880

Subject
Medicine
Item type
Object
Makers
Leiss
Primary inscriptions
Glass scale inscribed "Carl Zeiss / Jena"
Dimensions
Height: 132mm Width: 205mm Depth: 162mm Weight: 681g
Inventory No
18880

Description

Wooden box with one open side made up of five wooden blocks crudely nailed together. The box is lined with foil on four of the sides, the foil is labelled "British Manufacture". The top of the box is glass with a central scale inscribed with the measurements in millimetres, the scale is labelled "Carl Zeiss / Jena" in cursive script, around the edge of the glass the wood is covered with paper.