Cyophorus
notes: label: Description
content: A cyophorus (or cryophorus)--the name means frost bearer--is a glass instrument containing water and water vapor, that demonstrates rapid freezing by evaporation. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), English physician and chemical engineer, unveiled the form in 1812.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Hyde Wollaston, “On a Method of Freezing at a Distance,” <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i> 103 (1812):
label: Description
content: Benjamin Silliman, Jr., <i>First Principles of Physics or Natural Philosophy</i> (Philadelphia, 1859), pp. 390-391.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: United States Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316434
label: catalog number
content: 316434
label: accession number
content: 223721
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cyophorus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 34 in x 7 in; 25.4 cm x 86.36 cm x 17.78 cm