<i>CHEMISTRY</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1810
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving is marked “Plate VIII” and “1. Machine for the Combusion of Phosphorus. 2 to 6 The Mercurial Gazometer. 7 Guyton’s Eudiometer” and “Heny Lascelles delt” and “J. Pass Sculpt” and “London, Published as the Act directs, Feby 5, 1801. By J. Wilkes.” It was prepared for the fourth volume of the <i>Encyclopaedia Londinensis</i> (1810).
label: Description
content: The mercurial gasometer shown here was developed by William H. Pepys Jr., an apparatus maker in London. It was used for collecting gases that could not be maintained over water. Eudiometers measure the extent to which nitrous gases can absorb oxygen. The form shown here was described in 1795 by the French chemist Guyton de Morveau.
label: Description
content: John Wilkes (1750-1810) was a London printer and bookseller. He compiled the <i>Encyclopaedia Londoniensis</i> which was published in 24 volumes between 1810 and 1828.
label: Description
content: Ref. W. H. Pepys, “Description of a Mercurial Gazometer,” <i>Philosophical Magazine</i> 5 (1799): 154-157 and plate III.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Chemistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329199
label: accession number
content: 280069
label: catalog number
content: 329199
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 20.955 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 20.955 cm