Pestle. Slender, cylindrical iron pestle with two clubbed ends. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and since the 13th century have been symboli...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pestle. Cylindrical iron pestle with two clubbed ends, one significantly larger than the other. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and since th...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pestle. Cylindrical flanged iron pestle with clubbed ends. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and since the 13th century have been symbolic of ...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pestle. Cylindrical iron pestle with two clubbed ends, one significantly larger than the other. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and since th...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pestle. Cylindrical iron pestle with two clubbed ends, one significantly larger than the other. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and since th...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Scale. Black-painted cast iron scale with bottom portion of the double-beam mechanism hidden under an iron base; two pan construction; on one side, a support for a scoop is formed from two concave, curved parallel bars held together by a perpendicular iron beam; other side holds a round, slightly concave iron pan. Includes manufacturer marking: ...
Created:
1880 - 1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Scale. Black-painted cast iron scale; the full mechanism with a torsion spring at each of the three support columns of the scale, are exposed; mounted on a cast iron base; the column at either end of the scale ends in a scale arm with a pan support in the shape of a concave X; large brass pans; middle column has a circular iron cover; graduated ...
Contributor:
The Torsion Balance Co (New York City, New York)
Created:
1897 - 1910?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.