Mortar and pestle. Large, bowl-shaped mortar with a small, open, triangular spout at rim, made of Wedgwood-style "biscuit porcelain" bat-shaped glass pestle with a small, clubbed end and a wider, flared end for grinding. Mortar includes manufacturer markings:"Warrantied--W. M. A. S.--Acid Proof." Ceramicist Josiah Wedgwood created a new kind of ...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Bowl-shaped porcelain mortar with a small, open, triangular spout at rim. Cylindrical porcelain pestle with slim clubbed end at handle and thicker clubbed end at grinding end. Includes manufacturer markings:"4 in." A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are u...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
A manual Portable Adding Machine, style 8.08.01, The keyboard, which uses the atypical square keys, features a bulletin holder along the left side, one alphabetic column, and six numeric columns
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.