Air Condensing Apparatus
Air Condensing Apparatus
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- Description
- The “J. NEWMAN / LONDON” inscription on this air condensing apparatus is that of a philosophical instrument who, in 1836, advertised as “Maker by Appointment to the Royal Institution.”
- Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments (New York, 1848), vol. 1, p. 200.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- air condensing apparatus chamber
- air condensing apparatus
- maker
- J. Newman
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 6 3/4 in; 25.4 cm x 17.145 cm
- overall: 10 in x 9 1/4 in x 9 in; 25.4 cm x 23.495 cm x 22.86 cm
- ID Number
- PH.327551
- catalog number
- 327551
- accession number
- 266154
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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