"Woulfes Chemical Apparatus"
date: label: date made
content: 1810
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving was prepared for the fourth volume of the <i>Encyclopaedia Londinensis</i> (1810). It is marked “Plate VI” and “Woulfes Chemical Apparatus” and “Heny Lascelles delt” and “J. Pass Sculpt” and “London, Published as the Act directs, Feby 5, 1801. By J. Wilkes.”
label: Description
content: Peter Woulfe (1727-1803) was an Irish chemist and mineralogist who in 1767 described a bottle suitable for distillation. By the end of the century it was widely known as Woulfe’s apparatus.
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content: John Wilkes (1750-1810) was a London printer and bookseller whose 24-volume <i>Encyclopaedia Londoniensis</i> was published between about 1801 and 1828.
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content: Ref: Peter Woulfe, “Experiments on the Distillation of Acids, Volatile Alkalies, &c., Shewing How They May Be Condensed Without Loss, and How Thereby We May Avoid Disagreeable and Noxious Fumes,” <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i> 57 (1767): 517-536.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Chemistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329198
label: accession number
content: 280069
label: catalog number
content: 329198
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 20.955 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 5/8 in x 8 1/4 in; 26.9875 cm x 20.955 cm