Robert Boyle's Air Pump (replica)
Robert Boyle's Air Pump (replica)
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- Description
- This is a ½ sized replica of the air pump that Robert Boyle described in his New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall Touching the Spring of the Air (Oxford, 1660). Lauritz Christian Eichner, a New Jersey craftsman, made it for the Smithsonian in the mid-1950s; the glass globe came from Denmark.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- air pump (replica)
- date made
- 1956
- maker
- Eichner, Laurits Christian
- place made
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: glass bulb: 12 in x 7 in; 30.48 cm x 17.78 cm
- overall: wrench: 3 1/4 in x 2 in x 5/8 in; 8.255 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.5875 cm
- overall: stand: 12 in x 9 in x 9 3/4 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm x 24.765 cm
- ID Number
- PH.314816
- catalog number
- 314816
- accession number
- 210759
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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