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- Description
- Heavy glass vessel open at both ends, designed for use with an air pump. When the air evacuated, a bladder (or hand) put over the top opening will be drawn into the vessel. The form has been used for physics demonstrations since the eighteenth century.
- Ref: George Adams, A Catalogue of Optical, philosophical, and mathematical instruments (London, [1765]), p. 8.
- G. P. Quackenbos, A Natural Philosophy (New York, 1860), pp. 180-181.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1985.0311.303
- catalog number
- 1985.0311.303
- accession number
- 1985.0311
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