Condensing Chamber
name: label: maker
content: E. S. Ritchie & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: A “condensing chamber” is a vessel in which air can be compressed (or condensed) for experimental purposes. This example is a hollow brass sphere with dome and side sockets. The "E. S. Ritchie & Sons, Boston" inscription refers to an instrument firm that began trading as such in 1867.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. S. Ritchie & Sons, Catalogue of Physical Instruments (Boston, 1878), p. 29.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Virginia. Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.323403
label: catalog number
content: 323403
label: accession number
content: 251562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Condensing Chamber
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 7 in; 23.1775 cm x 13.97 cm x 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 7 in x 5 1/2 in; 23.1775 cm x 17.78 cm x 13.97 cm