Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: Gaertner Scientific Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This mechanical equivalent of heat apparatus was touted as “a simplification of the apparatus used by Rowland in his classical experiments.” The inscription on the tag reads "The GAERTNER SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION CHICAGO, U.S.A. TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF." The motor is missing, as are the thermometers. This was used in the Physics Department at Beloit College.
label: Description
content: William Gaertner began in business in Chicago in the late 1890s; the firm became The Gaertner Scientific Corporation in 1924.
label: Description
content: Ref: The Gaertner Scientific Corporation, <i>”Scientia” Calorimeters and Accessories</i> (Chicago, 1929), p. 9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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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.334637
label: catalog number
content: 334637
label: accession number
content: 312090
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 7/8 in x 15 13/16 in x 24 1/4 in; 40.3225 cm x 40.16375 cm x 61.595 cm