Marcet's Steam Apparatus
date: label: date made
content: 1850s
name: label: maker
content: Green, James
notes: label: Description
content: This device measures the vapor pressure of water. The form was designed in the 1820s by François Marcet (1803-1872), son of the Jane Marcet widely known for her popular books on science. Some dealers called it “Marcett’s steam boiler with barometer and thermometer, for experiments on latent heat, &c.” The thermometer of this example is inscribed "Jas. Green, New York."
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical and Philosophical Instruments (New York, 1848), vol. 2, pp. 96-97.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Virginia
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.323386
label: catalog number
content: 323386
label: accession number
content: 251562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pneumatic apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 in x 8 in x 11 in; 106.68 cm x 20.32 cm x 27.94 cm