Robert Boyle's Air Pump (replica)
date: label: date made
content: 1956
name: label: maker
content: Eichner, Laurits Christian
notes: label: Description
content: This is a ½ sized replica of the air pump that Robert Boyle described in his <i>New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall Touching the Spring of the Air</i> (Oxford, 1660). Lauritz Christian Eichner, a New Jersey craftsman, made it for the Smithsonian in the mid-1950s; the glass globe came from Denmark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314816
label: catalog number
content: 314816
label: accession number
content: 210759
objectType: label: Object Name
content: air pump (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: glass bulb: 12 in x 7 in; 30.48 cm x 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: wrench: 3 1/4 in x 2 in x 5/8 in; 8.255 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: stand: 12 in x 9 in x 9 3/4 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm x 24.765 cm