Retort
notes: label: Description
content: Brown University opened a new chemistry building in 1862, in response to the growing “demand for improved facilities for instruction in this department of learning, intimately connected as it is with manufacturing interests and industrial pursuits.” This retort may have been acquired at that time.
label: Description
content: Ref: Reuben Aldrich Guild, History of Brown University (Providence, 1867), pp. 279-282.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Brown University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315373
label: catalog number
content: 315373
label: accession number
content: 218984
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Retort
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in x 7 in; 52.07 cm x 29.21 cm x 16.51 cm x 17.78 cm