Piezometer
notes: label: Description
content: Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) was a Danish scientist best known for having discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. He also designed an instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids. That instrument was sometimes termed an Oersted apparatus. The term “piezometer” may have been coined by the American inventor and mechanical engineer, Jacob Perkins (1766-1849). There is no inscription on this example; and the registering apparatus has been lost.
label: Description
content: Ref: Jacob Perkins, “On the Compressibility of Water,” <i>American Journal of Science</i> (May 1821): 347-352, and illus; from <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i>.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Department of Defense, U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315648
label: catalog number
content: 315648
label: accession number
content: 217544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: piezometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 55.245 cm x 15.875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 7/8 in x 5 7/8 in; 55.5625 cm x 14.9225 cm