Kipp Gas Generator
name: label: maker
content: Kimble Glass Company
notes: label: Description
content: Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864) was a Dutch pharmacist who, in 1844, published designs for two simple gas generators that were blown for him by the master German glassblower Heinrich Geissler (1814–1879). The second of the two became the Kipp gas generator. His company, Kipp & Zonen, is still in business today, selling solar and scientific instruments.
label: Description
content: The "KIMAX" inscription indicates that this example is made of the borosilicate glass tht the Kimble Glass Co. introduced in 1957.
label: Description
content: Ref: “History - Kipp & Zonen,” http://www.kippzonen.com/History.
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: Description
content: Sella, Andrea. “Classic Kit: Kipp’s Apparatus,” <i>Chemistry World</i> (November 2007).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of McKinley Sr. High School
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.336675
label: accession number
content: 1978.0799
label: catalog number
content: 336675
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kipp Generator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 cm x 20 cm; 18 1/8 in x 7 7/8 in