Bűchner Funnel
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1900
name: label: maker
content: Büchner
notes: label: Description
content: Ernst Bűchner (1850-1924) was a German chemist who, in 1888, described a modest improvement of the funnel suitable for the vacuum filtration method recently patented by the industrial chemist, R. Hirsch. This Bűchner funnel is probably made of Berlin porcelain.
label: Description
content: Ref: William B. Jensen, "The Hirsch and Büchner Filtration Funnels," <i>Journal of Chemical Education</i> 83 (September 2006): 1283.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Heil Chemical Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus</i> (St. Louis, 1904), p. 241.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316636
label: catalog number
content: 316636
label: accession number
content: 225570
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bűchner Funnel
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in; x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 6 3/8 in x 6 3/8 in; 22.225 cm x 16.1925 cm x 16.1925 cm