Electric Furnace
name: label: originator
content: Moissan, Henri
notes: label: Description
content: Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moisson (1852-1907) was a French chemist who, in the early 1890s, unveiled an electric furnace capable of making artificial diamonds. This furnace is of that type. The inscription reads “Deutsche Gold und Silber / Scheide-Anstalt / vorm. Roessler / Frankfurt am Main / No. 3418.”
label: Description
content: In 1843, the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt leased the city’s new precious metals refinery to Friedrich Ernst Roessler, the head of the new Frankfurt Mint. In 1873, the Roessler family established the Deutsche Gold-und Silber-Scheideanstalt vormals Roessler (German Gold and Silver Refinery, formerly Roessler), with its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henri Moisson, <i>The Electric Furnace</i> (Easton, Pa., 1904).
label: Description
content: Eimer & Amend, <i>Chemical and Metallurgical Laboratory Supplies and Assayers’ Materials</i> (New York, 1913), p. 193.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the University of Michigan Department of Chemical Eng.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.319712
label: catalog number
content: 319712
label: accession number
content: 239025
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electric Furnace
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 74.5 cm x 67 cm x 41.5 cm; 29 11/32 in x 26 3/8 in x 16 11/32 in
label: Measurements
content: interior: 16.5 cm x 14 cm x 6.25 cm; 6 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 2 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/4 in x 21 in x 16 3/8 in; 74.295 cm x 53.34 cm x 41.5925 cm