Autoclave
notes: label: Description
content: Denis Papin, a French scientist who worked with Robert Boyle in England, designed a high pressure cooker in 1679. Charles Chamberland, a microbiologist who worked with Louis Pasteur in Paris, introduced a similar device for medical and scientific purposes in 1879. A brass label on the side of this example reads “AUTOCLAVE CHAMBERLAND / P. LEQUEUX, Ing. Const. / 64 RUE GAY-LUSSAC, 64 / PARIS.”
label: Description
content: Paul Lequeux, a French electrical engineer, showed instruments of this sort at the International Exhibition held in St Louis in 1904.
label: Description
content: Ref: Frederick G. Novy, Laboratory Work in Bacteriology (Ann Arbor, 1899), pp. 165-167.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Michigan Medical School. Department of Microbiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.253100.02
label: catalog number
content: 253100.02
label: accession number
content: 253100
label: maker number
content: 769
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Autoclave, Upright, Gas Fired
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)