Fernbach Flask
notes: label: Description
content: Auguste Fernbach (1860-1939), a biologist working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, found that a current of air favored the growth of the diptheria bacillus. The Fernbach flask was designed to take advantage of that observation. This example was probably made in Bohemia, and imported into the United States by the Henry Heil Chemical Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Heil Chemical Co., Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus (St. Louis, 1903), p. 232.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Diphtheria
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315972
label: catalog number
content: 315972
label: accession number
content: 222972
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fernbach Flask
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 8 in; 13.97 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 7 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 19.685 cm x 19.685 cm