Cailletet's Apparatus for Liquification of Gas
name: label: originator
content: Cailletet, Louis Paul
label: maker
content: E. Ducretet & Cie
label: maker
content: Ducretet, Eugene Adrien
notes: label: Description
content: Louis Paul Cailletet (1832-1913), director of the chemistry laboratory at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, succeeded in liquifying oxygen in 1877, and this achievement was widely reported in the scientific press. Soon thereafter, the Paris instrument maker, Eugene Ducretet, began producing Cailletet apparatus suitable for student use. This example was used at Amherst College. The inscription on the manometer dial reads "E. DUCRETET & CIE PARIS,"
label: Description
content: Ref: “DeCaillete’s Apparatus,” <i>Nature</i> 18 (1878): 46-47
label: Description
content: “Liquifaction of Gases—Cailletet’s Apparatus,” <i>Scientific American</i> (Feb. 23, 1878): 111-112.
label: Description
content: Faidra Papenelopoulou, “Louis Paul Cailletet: The Liquefaction of Oxygen and the Emergence of Low Temperature Research,” <i>Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London</i> 67 (2013): 355-373.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Amherst College Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.328743
label: catalog number
content: 328743
label: accession number
content: 277678
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cailletet's Apparatus for Liquification of Gas
label: Object Name
content: apparatus, gas liquification
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 132 cm x 58.5 cm; 51 15/16 in x 23 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: [ill.] base: 42 cm x 25.4 cm x 28 cm; 16 9/16 in x 10 in x 11 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 50 in x 38 in x 26 in; 127 cm x 96.52 cm x 66.04 cm