National Museum of American History
Spirit Meter
Tagliabue, Giuseppe · 1874
Patent model for Giuseppe Tagliabue, “Improvement in Apparatus for Ascertaining the Proof-Spirits in Fermented Mash,” U.S. Patent 111,885 (Feb. 14, 1871). Giuseppe Tagliabue (1812-1878), an Italian immigrant, was in New York by 1834, making and selling barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, and such.
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