Chemicals
name: label: maker
content: Hilger, Adam
notes: label: Description
content: Six glass vials containing chemicals for spectroscopic work: Barium Chloride; Chloride of Rubidium; Strontium Chloride; Lithium Chloride; Potassium Chloride; and Sodium Chloride. The “J. A. HILGER / 192 TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD / LONDON” inscription in the lid of the box is that of [Johann] Adam Hilger, a German artisan who moved to London around 1870, set up shop at this address in 1875, and dropped his first name soon thereafter.
label: Description
content: These chemicals are associated with the Hilger spectroscope from Smith College, also in the collection.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Smith College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0098.05
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0098.05
label: accession number
content: 1980.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chemicals, set of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 117 mm x 84 mm x 30 mm; 4 5/8 in x 3 5/16 in x 1 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 12.065 cm x 8.255 cm