Alcohol Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This glass alcohol lamp came from the Draper family and may date from the mid-nineteenth century.According to Benjamin Pike, Jr., this type of lamp, fed by spirits of wine rather than by oil, produced a large and hot flame, though little light and no smoke. It was “used in chemical operations, to heat retorts, test tubes, &c. and not for the light it affords.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 2, p. 71.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.334005.102
label: catalog number
content: 334005.102
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Alcohol Lamp
label: Object Type
content: Burning Fluid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 7 cm; 3 9/16 in x 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 9.525 cm x 7.3025 cm