Compound Blowpipe (replica)
date: label: date made
content: 1813
label: date made
content: 1959
label: Associated Date
content: 1801
name: label: originator
content: Hare, Robert
label: maker
content: Eichner, Laurits Christian
notes: label: Description
content: Robert Hare (1781–1858) was a Philadelphia chemist who, in 1801, introduced a blowpipe that produced a particularly steady and intense heat. The compound blowpipe that he introduced a dozen years later used jets of oxygen and of hydrogen to produce an even more intense heat. This replica of that instrument was made in anticipation of the opening of the National Museum of History and Technology in 1964.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert Hare, “Engraving and description of a Compound, or Hydro-oxygen Blowpipe used in the Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania.” This is the final section of Hare, “On Specific Gravity,” <i>American Journal of Science</i> 1 (1826): after 121-.
label: Description
content: Robert Hare, <i>A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania</i> (Philadelphia, 1828), pp. 77–78.
topic: label: Subject
content: Chemistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316960
label: catalog number
content: 316960
label: accession number
content: 229395
objectType: label: Object Name
content: compound blowpipe, replica
label: Object Name
content: compound blowpipe (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 16 in x 24 in; 58.42 cm x 40.64 cm x 60.96 cm
label: Measurements
content: tray: 19 in x 24 in; 48.26 cm x 60.96 cm
label: Measurements
content: piping system: 21 1/2 in; 54.61 cm