Flask
name: label: used by
content: Priestley, Joseph
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) used this flask in his Northumberland, Pennsylvania laboratory. Priestley, the noted chemist whose accomplishments include the discovery of oxygen, was born in England. He lived and worked in Birmingham for many years, but his views as a Dissenter and an advocate of the French Revolution incited an angry mob into burning down his house and laboratory. In 1794 he fled to America, eventually settling in Northumberland, near Philadelphia. His great-great-granddaughter, Frances Priestley, donated his surviving laboratory ware to the Smithsonian in 1883.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Source:
label: Description (Brief)
content: National Museum of American History Accession File #13305
label: Description
content: This spherical, clear glass flask belonged to Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), the accomplished and controversial English chemist and natural philosopher, and was undoubtedly made after his immigration to the United States in 1794.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
label: Subject
content: Chemistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Joseph Priestley
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Frances D. Priestley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315355.21
label: catalog number
content: 315355.21
label: accession number
content: 13305
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flask
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 5 in; 19.685 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 19.685 cm x 13.97 cm