Hope’s Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: Thomas Charles Hope (1766-1844) was a Scottish physician and chemist who designed an apparatus to show the expansion of water at different temperatures, and that fact that water reaches its maximum density at 4°C (or 30°F). This example of that apparatus has a glass body with brass caps. The thermometer (which may not be original) is inscribed “Jas. Green, New York."
label: Description
content: Ref: Thomas Charles Hope, “Experiments and Observations upon the Contraction of Water by Heat at Low Temperatures,” <i>The Philosophical Magazine</i> 23 (1805): 153-173.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Department of Defense, U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315646
label: catalog number
content: 315646
label: accession number
content: 217544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: density apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 in x 5 1/2 in; 68.58 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 7/16 in x 6 in; 64.61125 cm x 15.24 cm