Gas Burner
name: label: patent assigned to
content: Neff, Peter
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Peter Neff, “Improvement in Gas-Burners for the Manufacture of Lamp Black,” U.S. Patent 160,787 (March 16, 1875). Peter Neff (1830-1916), a graduate of Kenyon College, cornered the market for lampblack, a fine form of carbon used in making photographic prints. He held several related patents as well.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0016.12
label: catalog number
content: 1980.16.12
label: accession number
content: 1980.0016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Burner
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: flat cone 1: 25 mm x 88 mm; in x 3 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: flat cone 2: 18 mm x 88 mm; 11/16 in x 3 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: loop hanger: 13 mm x 82 mm; 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.3 cm x 10.8 cm x 12.7 cm; 6 7/16 in x 4 1/4 in x 5 in
label: Measurements
content: cylinder screen: 58 mm x 62 mm; 2 5/16 in x 2 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: cone screen: 25 mm x 74 mm; in x 2 15/16 in