Pascal Vases
notes: label: Description
content: The fact that a liquid poured into several communicating vases, whatever their shape, will seek the same level in each, was known in antiquity. It became scientific when the French savant, Blaise Pascal, discussed it in his <i>Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids</i> (1653). In time, simple hydrostatic instruments became popular for classroom demonstrations, and these instruments became known as Pascal vases.
label: Description
content: Ref: L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., <i>Catalogue of Physical Instruments</i> (Boston, [1912]), p. 169.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326946
label: catalog number
content: 326946
label: accession number
content: 264801
objectType: label: Object Name
content: liquid level apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 5 1/2 in x 12 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 13.97 cm x 31.75 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in x 12 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 25.0825 cm x 31.75 cm x 13.97 cm