Pneumatic Flask
notes: label: Description
content: Oval brass flask with stopcock designed to show that the boiling point of water depends on atmospheric pressure. This example came from the University of Virginia.
label: Description
content: Ref. N. B. & D. Chamberlain,<i> A Catalogue of Pneumatic Instruments</i> (Boston, 1844), p. 45.
label: Description
content: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 2, p. 212.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.323382
label: catalog number
content: 323382
label: accession number
content: 251562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pneumatic flask
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 4 in; 34.29 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/4 in x 4 in; 34.925 cm x 10.16 cm