Aludel, center piece (replica)
name: label: maker
content: Kimble Glass Company
notes: label: Description
content: Using historic recipes for glass and illustrations from Agricola, <i>De Re Metallica</8> (1556), the Kimble Glass Co. produced several replicas of early chemical apparatus for the Smithsonian. This aludel (a bottomless pot used for sublimation) is one of those pieces.
label: Description
content: Ref: “17th Century Glassware are Copied,” New York Times (Aug. 20, 1962), pp. 33-34.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.320245.01.02
label: catalog number
content: 320245.01.02
label: accession number
content: 230796
objectType: label: Object Name
content: aludel, center
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 5 3/4 in; 20.6375 cm x 14.605 cm