Calorimeter
notes: label: Description
content: This type of calorimeter, designed by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Pierre Simon Laplace in the late eighteenth century, was used to measure the specific heat of bodies. This example came from the U.S. Military Academy and was probably purchased in Paris, circa 1830.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lavoisier and Laplace, <i>Memoir sur la Chaleur</i> (Paris, 1783).
label: Description
content: “Calorimètre de Lavoisier,” in Lerebours et Secretan, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instruments d’Optique, de Physique, de Mathématiques , d’Astronomie et de Marine</i> (Paris, 1853), p. 99.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U. S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316418
label: catalog number
content: 316148
label: accession number
content: 223721
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calorimeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 15 1/2 in x 13 in; 63.5 cm x 39.37 cm x 33.02 cm