Autoclave
notes: label: Description
content: Denis Papin, a French scientist working with Robert Boyle in England, designed a high pressure cooker in 1679. Charles Chamberland, a microbiologist who worked with Louis Pasteur in Paris, introduced a similar device for medical and scientific purposes in 1879. Both forms (the pressure cooker and the autoclave) were in widespread use by the early years of the twentieth century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bowdoin College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315392
label: catalog number
content: 315392
label: accession number
content: 219414
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Autoclave
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: to top of lid: 15 in x 12 in; 38.1 cm x 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 14 in x 13 in; 40.005 cm x 35.56 cm x 33.02 cm