Hero's Fountain
notes: label: Description
content: Hero’s Fountain is a classic demonstration of fluid pressure that has long been attributed to Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (ca. 120 B.C.E.). This unusual example came from the Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University).
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Silliman, Jr., <i>Principles of Physics, or Natural Philosophy</i> (Philadelphia, 1866), p. 232.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325391
label: catalog number
content: 325391
label: accession number
content: 254284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hero's Fountain
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 34 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 87.63 cm x 26.67 cm x 21.59 cm