{"id":769,"date":"2010-03-20T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T17:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2020-06-14T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T14:39:49","slug":"pair-of-glass-beakers-c-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Two glass beakers, c.1890"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both of these blown glass laboratory beakers have etched calibrations as well as similarly repaired bases. These were most likely repaired by chemists in their own labs by filling a discarded tin lid with plaster and submerging the broken beaker. The left beaker is 4.5 inches tall, and the beaker on the right is 3.25 inches tall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3163.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2228\" title=\"IMG_3163\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3163.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3163-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not the most elegant repair job but an efficient way to quickly resolve a mishap, making the beakers usable again in about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2229\" title=\"IMG_3165\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31651.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31651.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31651-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pair remained unharmed and still have their original glass bases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/beakers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2226\" title=\"beakers\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/beakers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/beakers.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/beakers-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthpoint.com\">WorthPoint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both of these blown glass laboratory beakers have etched calibrations as well as similarly repaired bases. These were most likely repaired by chemists in their own labs by filling a discarded tin lid with plaster and submerging the broken beaker. The left beaker is 4.5 inches tall, and the beaker on the right is 3.25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[32,44],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household","tag-glass","tag-metal-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15627,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/15627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}