Vaporimeter
name: label: maker
content: Geissler, Heinrich
notes: label: Description
content: A vaporimeter measures the percent of alcohol in alcoholic liquids such as wine and beer. The “Vaporimeter / H. Geissler Patentiert” inscription on this example refers to Heinrich Geissler (1814-1879), a German physicist and glassblower. John J. Griffin & Sons, apparatus dealers in London, were offering instruments of this sort by 1866.
label: Description
content: Ref: Richards & Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue of Chemical and Physical Apparatus</i> (New York, 1896), p. 259.
label: Description
content: “Heinrich Geissler: Pioneer of Electrical Science and Vacuum Technology,” </i>Proceedings of the IEEE</i> 103 (2015): 1672-1684.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Muhlenberg College, Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.318375
label: catalog number
content: 318375
label: accession number
content: 233667
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vaporimeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 in; 73.66 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 5/8 in x 6 1/4 in x 5 in; 65.0875 cm x 15.875 cm x 12.7 cm