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Description:

This engraving is marked “Plate IV” and “Van Marum’s Gasometer” and “Heny Lascelles delt” and “J. Pass Sculpt” and “London, Published as the Act directs, Feby 21, 1801 by J. Wilkes.” It was prepared for the fourth volume of the Encyclopaedia Londinensis (1810).

Martinus Van Marum was a Dutch chemist who, after having seen Lavoisier’s demonstrations of the composition of water in Paris in 1785, devised a user-friendly gasometer for measuring the amount of hydrogen and of oxygen produced by this operation.

John Wilkes (1750-1810) was a London printer and bookseller. His Encyclopaedia Londoniensis was published in 24 volumes between about 1801 and 1828.

Ref: “A Letter from Doctor Van Marum to M. Berthollet, containing a description of a new Gasometer,” The Monthly Review 7 (1792): 493-494.

Date Made: 1810

Location: Currently not on view

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: PH.329200Catalog Number: 329200Accession Number: 280069

Object Name: print

Measurements: overall: 26.5 cm x 21 in; 10 7/16 in x 53.34 cmoverall in mat: 15 1/2 in x 12 5/8 in x 1/4 in; 39.37 cm x 32.0675 cm x .635 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-d873-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1451875

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