Pascal's vases
notes: label: Description
content: The fact that a liquid poured into several communicating vases, whatever their shape, will seek the same level in each, was known in antiquity. It became scientific when the French savant, Blaise Pascal, discussed it in his <i>Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids</> (1653). In time, simple hydrostatic instruments became popular for classroom demonstrations, and these instruments became known as Pascal vases.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Ohio, Youngstown
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.3095.025
label: catalog number
content: 2010.3095.025
label: nonaccession number
content: 2010.3095
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physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 10 3/4 in x 6 in; 45.72 cm x 27.305 cm x 15.24 cm