Bacchus in Vacuo
date: label: date made
content: nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: This model of a child on a barrel—often termed a “Bacchus in Vacuo”—demonstrated the effects of increasing and decreasing air pressure.
label: Description
content: Ref: N. B. & D. Chamberlain, <i>A Catalogue of Pneumatic Instruments</i> (Boston, 1844), p. 30.
label: Description
content: Alfred White Sprague, <i>The Elements of Natural Philosophy</i> (Boston, 1856), p. 116.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Middlebury College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315188
label: catalog number
content: 315188
label: accession number
content: 216217
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pneumatic apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 21.2725 cm x 8.255 cm x 10.795 cm