Cailletet's Apparatus for Liquification of Gas
Cailletet's Apparatus for Liquification of Gas
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- Description
- Louis Paul Cailletet (1832-1913), director of the chemistry laboratory at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, succeeded in liquifying oxygen in 1877, and this achievement was widely reported in the scientific press. Soon thereafter, the Paris instrument maker, Eugene Ducretet, began producing Cailletet apparatus suitable for student use. This example was used at Amherst College. The inscription on the manometer dial reads "E. DUCRETET & CIE PARIS,"
- Ref: “DeCaillete’s Apparatus,” Nature 18 (1878): 46-47
- “Liquifaction of Gases—Cailletet’s Apparatus,” Scientific American (Feb. 23, 1878): 111-112.
- Faidra Papenelopoulou, “Louis Paul Cailletet: The Liquefaction of Oxygen and the Emergence of Low Temperature Research,” Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 67 (2013): 355-373.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Cailletet's Apparatus for Liquification of Gas
- apparatus, gas liquification
- originator
- Cailletet, Louis Paul
- maker
- E. Ducretet & Cie
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- Measurements
- overall: 132 cm x 58.5 cm; 51 15/16 in x 23 1/16 in
- [ill.] base: 42 cm x 25.4 cm x 28 cm; 16 9/16 in x 10 in x 11 in
- overall: 50 in x 38 in x 26 in; 127 cm x 96.52 cm x 66.04 cm
- ID Number
- CH.328743
- catalog number
- 328743
- accession number
- 277678
- Credit Line
- Gift of Amherst College Department of Physics
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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