Freas Gas Generator
name: label: maker
content: Freas Thermo-Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: According to advertisements, the Freas gas generator provided an “effective, cleanly, economical method of obtaining any gas desired for use.” It was designed by Thomas B. Freas (1868-1928), then a young faculty member at the Kent Chemical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. Freas would later become a professor at Columbia University. Other inventions included an oven suitable for chemical and biological experiments.
label: Description
content: Ref: Thomas B. Freas, “New Apparatus,” School Science and Mathematics (Feb. 1907): 118-119.
label: Description
content: Central Scientific Co., Physical and Chemical Apparatus (Chicago, 1909), p. 312.
label: Description
content: “PROFESSOR FREAS OF COLUMBIA DEAD,” New York Times (March 17, 1928), p. 9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University Pennsylvania Chemistry Lab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316073
label: accession number
content: 217523
label: catalog number
content: 316073
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gas generator, dropping
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 3 5/8 in x 3 in; 30.48 cm x 9.2075 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in; 29.5275 cm x 8.89 cm x 7.9375 cm