Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

S/O

Nº de partie

1

Nombre total de parties

2

Ou

S/O

Brevets

S/O

Description générale

cast iron

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

S/O

Largeur

S/O

Hauteur

14,2 cm

Épaisseur

S/O

Poids

S/O

Diamètre

14,5 cm

Volume

S/O

Lexique

Groupe

Chimie

Catégorie

Appareils de laboratoire

Sous-catégorie

S/O

Fabricant

Ou

Inconnu

Pays

Inconnu

État/province

Inconnu

Ville

Inconnu

Contexte

Pays

Canada

État/province

Ontario

Période

early 20th century

Canada

This piece of equipment was used at the Chatham Collegiate Institute in Chatham, Ontario, a secondary school which was founded in 1885 and closed in 2003. In 1851 the first school was established in the village of Chatham and by the late 1870's it was called Chatham High School. In 1885 the school attained the status of a collegiate institute, enabling it to obtain larger provincial grants and by 1887 a new school building had been constructed and the CCI was considered to be one of the most outstanding secondary schools in Ontario (it was destroyed by fire in 1946). In 1940 a new building was completed & again was considered to be one of the most modern educational facilities in the province. The school was closed in 2003.

Fonction

Used in a chemistry laboratory, a mortar is a strong bowl-shaped vessel in which a substance is crushed to a powder using a pestle, which is a club-shaped instrument used to pound or crush.

Technique

An example of a heavy cast iron mortar & pestle. See similar examples in Welch Scientific Co.'s 1929 and 1949 catalogues, and Chicago Apparatus Co.'s 1929 catalogue (Refs. 2-4).

Notes sur la région

Inconnu

Détails

Marques

cast "2" on underside

Manque

complete

Fini

remnants of black emamel finish

Décoration

groove encircles base