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- OBJECT TYPE
- FUEL EFFICIENCY
- DATE
- 1950
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1998.0070.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Bacharach Industrial Instrument Co.
- MODEL
- FIRE EFFICIENCY FINDER
- LOCATION
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- CARDSTOCK WITH METAL HARDWARE
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 20.5 cm
- Width
- 10.9 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Domestic Technology
- Category
- Environment control
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Bacharach
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Pennsylvania
- City
- Pittsburgh
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- PROBABLY USED IN THE 1940S AND 1950S
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
USED TO CALCULATE THE COMBUSTION EFFICIENCY OF A FUEL BURNING DEVICE AT PARTICULAR NET STACK TEMPERATURES SET AT THE % CO2 LEVEL FOUND BY MEASURING WITH A GAS ANALYSER. THIS IN TURN IS USED TO CALCULATE SAVINGS IF EFFICIENCY IS IMPROVED BY USING TABLE ON BACK OF CALCULATOR. - Technical
-
SIMPLE DEVICE TO ASSIST IN IMPROVING FUEL EFFICENCY AND ALSO AN ADVERTISING DEVICE TO SELL BACHARACH PRODUCTS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- PRINTING ON FRONT INCLUDES: 'FIRE/ Efficiency/ FINDER/.../ BACHARACH INDUSTRIAL INSTRUMENT COMPANY/ PITTSBURGH 8, PA./ Fuel Saving and Installation Service Instruments'/ PRINTING ON BACK INCLUDES: 'SAVINGS FOR EVERY $100 FUEL COSTS/ BY INCREASE OF COMBUSTION EFFICIENCY/ [CHART]/ TEMPOINT/ STACK THERMOMETER/.../ TRUE-SPOT/ SMOKE TESTER/.../DRAFT GAUGES.../ TEMPSCRIBE MOTOR OPERATION RECORDER/.../ The instrument shown above are typical of our complete line of heat-/ ing service instruments. For further information request Bulletin 729....'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- MULTI-COLOURED PRINTING - PRIMARILY YELLOW, GREEN AND ORANGE
- Decoration
- FRONT: DRAWING OF A FYRITE GAS ANALYSER; BACK PHOTOS OF VARIOUS BACHARACH PRODUCTS [SEE DIGITAL PHOTOS]
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Bacharach Industrial Instrument Co., Calculator, circa 1950, Artifact no. 1998.0070, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1998.0070.001/
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