Laboratory Burner
notes: label: Description
content: In 1905, Georges Meker, a French engineer, described a laboratory gas burner that produced higher temperatures than could the standard Bunsen burner. Edwin Fisher, of Pittsburgh, developed several modifications to the form, and assigned the patent rights to his brother, Chester Garfield Fisher, founder of the Scientific Materials Co. An inscription on this example reads “Scimato Pat. 1913.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Edwin H. Fisher, “Gas-Burner,” U.S. Patent 1,051,367 (Jan. 21, 1913), assigned to Scientific Materials Co. of Pittsburgh.
label: Description
content: Edwin H. Fisher, “Gas-Burner,” U.S. Patent 1,078,726 (Jan. 21, 1913), assigned to Scientific Materials Co. of Pittsburgh.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.254352.258
label: accession number
content: 254352
label: catalog number
content: 254352.258
objectType: label: Object Name
content: burner
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 19.05 cm x 10.795 cm x 8.5725 cm