Mercury Shower Apparatus
Mercury Shower Apparatus
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- Description
- When a wooden cup of this sort is placed atop a glass vessel and the air evacuated from that vessel, atmospheric pressure will force mercury through the small holes in the cup. The form was already known in the eighteenth century.
- Ref: Benjamin Pike Jr., Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments (New York, 1848), vol. 1, pp. 211-212.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- mercury shower apparatus
- Physical Description
- glass; wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 in x 4 1/4 in; 17.78 cm x 10.795 cm
- ID Number
- 2010.0235.54
- catalog number
- 2010.0235.54
- accession number
- 2010.0235
- Credit Line
- Richard J. Zitto
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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