Dicas hydrometer with weights

Made:: 1781 in Liverpool

Dicas Hydrometer, in mahogany box with 35 weights (290 wt

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Dicas Hydrometer, in mahogany box with 35 weights (290 wt
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Dicas Hydrometer, in mahogany box with 35 weights (290 wt. missing), ivory slide rule stamped "Dicas", Liverpool patentee, serial no 181

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Category:: Experimental Chemistry

Object Number:: 1900-143

Materials:: gilt, box: mahogany and slide rule: ivory

type:: hydrometer

credit:: The Royal Society

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