Oersted Piezometer
notes: label: Description
content: Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) was a Danish scientist best known for having discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. He also designed an instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids. That instrument was variously known as an Oersted apparatus or a piezometer. The latter term may have been coined by the American inventor and mechanical engineer, Jacob Perkins (1766-1849).
label: Description
content: Ref: Jacob Perkins, “On the Compressibility of Water,” <i>American Journal of Science</i> (May 1821): 347-352, and illus; from <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i>.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bowdoin College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315398
label: catalog number
content: 315398
label: accession number
content: 219414
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oersted Piezometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 56.515 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 57.15 cm x 16.51 cm