Parr Instrument Company

  The Parr Instrument Company is a privately held corporation located at 211-53rd Street, Moline, Illinois, engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of laboratory instruments and apparatus for testing fuels and for conducting chemical reactions and tests under heat and pressure.      Parr Instrument Company is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of laboratory instruments and apparatus for testing fuels and for conducting chemical reactions and tests under heat and pressure. The company was founded in 1899 at Champaign, Illinois as the Standard Calorimeter Company by S.W. Parr, a professor at the University of Illinois.