Gas Alkalimeter
notes: label: Description
content: Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864) was a Dutch pharmacist who, in 1844, published designs for two simple gas generators that were blown for him by the master German glassblower Heinrich Geissler (1814–1879). One of these became the Kipp alkalimeter. The other became the Kipp gas generator.
label: Description
content: Ref: Richards & Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue of Chemical and Physical Apparatus</i> (New York, 1896), p. 10.
label: Description
content: Homburg, Ernst. “The Story behind the Name 4: Kipp’s Apparatus.” <i>Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Newsletter</i>, 2001.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Stevens Institute of Technology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316881
label: catalog number
content: 316881
label: accession number
content: 222983
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Alkalimeter
label: Object Name
content: Kipp Generator
label: Object Name
content: Gas Generator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 15.875 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 16.1925 cm x 8.255 cm x 6.35 cm