Blowpipe Apparatus
date: label: Date made
content: 1880s
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This kit was probably used in the Blowpipe Analysis course taught by W.P. Nason, a Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at RPI who rewrote and revised Elderhorst's Manual of Qualitative Blowpipe Analysis. Inside the mahogany box are several trays in which are nestled the various parts and accessories. These include a Plattner blowpipe, with two trumpet-shaped mouthpieces; a Berzelius blowpipe lamp; three pairs of forceps; hammer; small spirit lamp; three charcoal borers; charcoal saw; steel mortar and pestle; five glass tubes; an instrument used to make cupels small brush; shears; three glazed porcelain dishes; glass dropper; pincers; and eighteen bottles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0037.01
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0037.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0037
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mineralogical Assay Kit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 37.7 cm x 26.7 cm; 5 1/8 in x 14 13/16 in x 10 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/16 in x 15 in x 11 3/8 in; 13.17625 cm x 38.1 cm x 28.8925 cm