Gasometer
name: label: maker
content: Central Scientific Company
label: maker
content: Central Scientific Company
notes: label: Description
content: A gasometer stores and measures gas. The type shown here was sometimes associated with the Swedish chemist, Jőns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848). The inscription reads "Central Scientific Co. CENCO U.S.A. Pat applied for."
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical and Philosophical Instruments (New York, 1848), vol. 2, pp. 81-82.
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Apparatus and Supplies for Chemical and Biological Laboratories (Rochester, 1903), p. 244-246.
label: Description
content: Central Scientific Co., Physical and Chemical Apparatus (Chicago, 1909), p. 313.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Virginia Department of Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.322758
label: catalog number
content: 322758
label: accession number
content: 251007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gasometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 10 1/4 in; 60.96 cm x 26.035 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 3/4 in x 11 3/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 67.945 cm x 29.845 cm x 28.575 cm