Heating Mantle
notes: label: Description
content: Dr. Glen H. Morey was a chemist at the Commercial Solvents Corporation in Terre Haute who, having been hurt in a laboratory fire caused by a gas Bunsen burner, developed an electrical heating mantle suitable for a safer and more efficient way to heat laboratory glassware. An inscription on the side of this heating mantle reads “GLAS-COL APPARATUS CO. / TERRE HAUTE, IND. / U.S. PAT 2,282,078 / SER. NO.” The firm was established in 1939, with the aim of producing heating apparatus for chemical laboratories.
label: Description
content: Ref: Glen H. Morey, “Electrical Heating Device,” U.S. Patent 2,282,078 (May 5, 1942).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Rockefeller University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0188.01.06a
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0188.01.06a
label: accession number
content: 1996.0188
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Heating Mantle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.1 cm x 24.1 cm; 9 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in x 9 in x 7 3/4 in; 49.53 cm x 22.86 cm x 19.685 cm