Surface Tension of Water Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: Salleron, Jules
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) and Louis Jacques Thénard (1777-1857) were French physicists who studied the physical properties of gases. This instrument, which is based on their work, measured the surface tension of water vapor mixed with gasses. The “J. Salleron, Paris” inscription is that of Jules Salleron (1829-1897), an instrument maker who began in business in 1855. Used at Princeton University, it was probably purchased after the establishment of the John C. Green School of Science in 1872 and the arrival of Cyrus Fogg Brackett as professor of physics in 1873.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. Salleron, <i>Notice Sur Les Instrumens de Précision</i> (Paris, 1864), parts 3 and 4, p. 246.
label: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Physical Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1888), pp. 67-68.
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: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330589
label: catalog number
content: 330589
label: accession number
content: 299612
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus of Gay-Lussac and Thenard
label: Object Name
content: surface tension of water apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 3/4 in x 13 5/16 in x 8 1/2 in; 118.745 cm x 33.8455 cm x 21.59 cm