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- OBJECT TYPE
- WEIGHING/DUFF
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1996.0667.001
- MANUFACTURER
- P.N.F.I.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 5
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- .1-.4 NON-FERROUS METAL BOXES, MESH, WIRE/.5 WITH METAL HARDWARE
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 36.5 cm
- Width
- 36.5 cm
- Height
- 67.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Forestry
- Category
- Fire fighting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- PNFI
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Chalk River
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
FROM COLLECTION OF FORESTRY & FIRE-FIGHTING EQUIPMENT USED BY & ACQUIRED FROM PNFI. FOUNDED IN 1918, IT WAS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING FORESTRY-RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT IN CANADA UNTIL IT CLOSED IN 1995. PNFI STUDIED GROWTH OF VARIOUS SPECIES & FOREST MANAGEMENT, PARTICULARLY FIRE PREVENTION & SUPPRESSION. - Function
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"ITEM DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY PRECISELY. ACCORDING TO HERB BEALL [FORMERLY OF PNFI], IT MAY HAVE BEEN FOR HOLDING SAMPLES OF TWIGS & SMALL DEAD BRANCH LEAVES OF KNOWN DRY WEIGHT, SUSPENDED IN FIELD, LEVEL WITH BRUSH OR SLASH OF SIMILAR MATERIAL, & WEIGHED TWICE DAILY LIKE MATCH-SPLINT TRAYS OR OTHER TRAYS REPRESENTING FINE FUELS ON GROUND. IF SO, IT WASN'T USED MUCH." (REF. 1). - Technical
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Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 METAL TAG WITH STAMPED "41" & HANDWRITTEN "748.8"/.2 METAL TAG WITH STAMPED "31" & HANDWRITTEN "452.6/.3 METAL TAG WITH STAMPED "34" & HANDWRITTEN "452.7"
- Missing
- .1 MISSING METAL TAG
- Finish
- .1-.4 METALLIC/.5 UNFINISHED WOOD
- Decoration
- N/A
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P.N.F.I., Box, sample, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1996.0667, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/1996.0667.001/
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