Melloni Bench
name: label: maker
content: Carpentier, Jules
notes: label: Description
content: The “Atelier Ruhmkorff J. Carpentier, Ingr Constr à PARIS” inscription on the brass bar of this large and handsome Melloni bench refers to Jules Carpentier, a French instrument maker who bought the Ruhmkorff firm in 1877, and arranged with James W. Queen & Co. to handle the American market. At the International Electrical Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1884, Queen showed a “Melloni’s Apparatus” that was described as a “finely constructed piece of apparatus for delicate experiments in heat, with between thirty and forty accessories” that “was manufactured by Carpentier, of Paris, and was contained in a very neat and compact case for safe keeping and transportation.”
label: Description
content: This example came from the Packer College Institute, a school that was established as the Brooklyn Female Academy, in Brooklyn Heights, New York, in 1845.
label: Description
content: Ref: Philadelphia. International Electrical Exhibition, 1884, Report of the Examiners of Sections V, VI and VIII (Philadelphia, 1885), pp. 44-45.
label: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co., Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Physical Instruments (Philadelphia, 1888), pp. 62-63.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Packer Collegiate Institute
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.337108
label: catalog number
content: 337108
label: accession number
content: 1979.0302
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Melloni Bench
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/16 in x 41 3/8 in x 7 in; 12.85875 cm x 105.0925 cm x 17.78 cm