Mercury Shower Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 1, pp. 211-212.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0235.54
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0235.54
label: accession number
content: 2010.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mercury shower apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass; wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 4 1/4 in; 17.78 cm x 10.795 cm