"Candles and Lamps"
"Candles and Lamps"
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- Description
- Herbert McKay (b. 1881) wrote many books on science and related technologies, many of them appropriate for children, and many issued by the Oxford University Press. “Candles and Lamps” was part of “First Steps in Science,” a six-volume set issued in 1929.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Book
- Date made
- 1929
- maker
- McKay, Herbert
- Measurements
- overall: 7 in x 4 3/4 in; 17.78 cm x 12.065 cm
- overall: 7 in x 4 3/4 in x 3/16 in; 17.78 cm x 12.065 cm x.47625 cm
- ID Number
- 1992.3116.07
- nonaccession number
- 1992.3116
- catalog number
- 1992.3116.07
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miles & Audrey Davis
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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