<i>CHEMISTRY</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1810
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving is marked “Plate IV” and “Van Marum’s Gasometer” and “Heny Lascelles delt” and “J. Pass Sculpt” and “London, Published as the Act directs, Feby 21, 1801 by J. Wilkes.” It was prepared for the fourth volume of the <i>Encyclopaedia Londinensis</i> (1810).
label: Description
content: Martinus Van Marum was a Dutch chemist who, after having seen Lavoisier’s demonstrations of the composition of water in Paris in 1785, devised a user-friendly gasometer for measuring the amount of hydrogen and of oxygen produced by this operation.
label: Description
content: John Wilkes (1750-1810) was a London printer and bookseller. His <i>Encyclopaedia Londoniensis</i> was published in 24 volumes between about 1801 and 1828.
label: Description
content: Ref: “A Letter from Doctor Van Marum to M. Berthollet, containing a description of a new Gasometer,” <i>The Monthly Review</i> 7 (1792): 493-494.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329200
label: catalog number
content: 329200
label: accession number
content: 280069
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.5 cm x 21 in; 10 7/16 in x 53.34 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in mat: 15 1/2 in x 12 5/8 in x 1/4 in; 39.37 cm x 32.0675 cm x .635 cm