Gay-Lussac's Support
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Heil (1854-1919) was born in Germany, moved to the United States in 1872, graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, and established the Henry Heil Chemical Co. in 1882. Heil Scientific, as the firm was later known, donated this complex wooden device to the Smithsonian in 1959. The firm termed it Gay Lussac’s support for retorts, with universal motion and cork-lined jaws.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Heil Chemical Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus</i> (St. Louis, 1904), p. 407.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316639.22
label: catalog number
content: 316639.22
label: accession number
content: 225570
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Support, Gay-Lussac's
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35.5 cm x 22.8 cm x 17.7 cm; 14 in x 9 in x 6 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 10 3/8 in x 9 in; 38.1 cm x 26.3525 cm x 22.86 cm