Kipp Gas Generator
name: label: maker
content: Kipp & Zonen
notes: label: Description
content: Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864) was a Dutch pharmacist who, in 1844, published designs for two simple gas generators made for him by the master German glassblower Heinrich Geissler (1814–1879). The second of the two became the Kipp gas generator.
label: Description
content: Homburg, Ernst. “The Story behind the Name 4: Kipp’s Apparatus.” <i>Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Newsletter</i> (2001).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Science Under Glass
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania Chemistry Lab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316259.01
label: accession number
content: 217523
label: catalog number
content: 316259.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gas generator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 7 1/2 in; 63.5 cm x 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 7/8 in x 7 5/8 in; 60.6425 cm x 19.3675 cm