Condensing Engine
Condensing Engine
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- Description
- This handsome condensing engine marked: "W. Harris & Co. 50 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON” was among the instruments bought by Frederick Hall, a Dartmouth graduate who became a tutor at Middlebury College in 1805, and then spent two years abroad, attending universities and scientific lectures, and purchasing apparatus for the school. Hall was later named professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Middlebury. The instrument was also known as a condensing pump, or a condenser.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- condensing engine
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Measurements
- overall: 34.3 cm x 25 cm x 31 cm; 13 1/2 in x 9 13/16 in x 12 3/16 in
- overall: 13 3/4 in x 9 3/4 in x 10 3/4 in; 34.925 cm x 24.765 cm x 27.305 cm
- ID Number
- PH.315190
- accession number
- 216217
- catalog number
- 315190
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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