Flash Point Tester
notes: label: Description
content: The expanded use of kerosene in the mid-nineteenth century led to a search for ways to test the volatility of petroleum products, to reduce the incidence of
label: Description
content: accidental fires. Berthold Pensky, an engineer at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute in Berlin, developed a flash-point cup tester for this purpose in the early 1870s. A modification, introduced by Martens, was in use by 1891. This example, known as a Pensky-Martens tester, is of that sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: Boverton Redwood, Petroleum and Its Products (London, 1906), vol. 2, pp. 593-594.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas, <i>Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents</i> (Philadelphia 1921), p. 452.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Department of Defense, U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316410
label: catalog number
content: 316410
label: accession number
content: 223721
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flash Point Tester
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in; x 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 36.83 cm x 24.13 cm x 26.035 cm