Hefner Lamp
name: label: designed by
content: Hefner-Alteneck, Friedrich Franz von
label: maker
content: Siemens & Halske
notes: label: Description
content: The Hefner lamp (in German Hefnerkerze) burns amyl acetate. The form was invented in 1884 by Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck, a lighting engineer employed by Siemens & Halske, and soon became the German standard for photometric purposes. This example has a “Siemens & Halske / Berlin / No. 272182” inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: “OBITUARY. HERR VON HEFNER-ALTENEK,” Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply, &c. (Jan. 12, 1904): 85.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cornell University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.318261
label: catalog number
content: 318261
label: accession number
content: 231262
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hefner Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: lamp: 2 3/4 in; x 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 3 3/4 in x 4 in x 7 7/8 in; 9.525 cm x 10.16 cm x 20.0025 cm