Apparatus for the Decomposition and Recomposition of Water (replica)
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: originator
content: Hare, Robert
label: maker
content: Eichner, Laurits Christian
notes: label: Description
content: Replica of the apparatus that the American chemist Robert Hare (1781–1858) designed for demonstrating the decomposition and recomposition of water to his large classes in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. An inscription reads "L. C. Eichner fecit, MCMLX." This was made in anticipation of the opening of the National Museum of History and Technology in 1964.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert Hare, <i>A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction</i> (Philadelphia, 1836), 3d ed., pp. 196-197.
label: Description
content: Robert Hare, “Engraving and Description of an Apparatus for the Decomposition and Recomposition of Water, Employed in the Laboratory of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania,” <i>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society</i> 6 (1839): 339-340.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Chemistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.318452
label: catalog number
content: 318452
label: accession number
content: 235071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chemical apparatus (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gilded metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in x 9 in; 74.93 cm x 31.115 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in; 59.69 cm x 31.115 cm x 22.225 cm