Laboratory Burner
name: label: maker
content: Fisher Scientific Company
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.
label: Description
content: Fisher Scientific, as the firm later became, boasted that its improved gas burner had a “pure nickel grid and injector-shaped tube,” air regulator and needle-valve gas regulation, and could be adjusted to produce maximum temperatures. The inscription on the base of this example reads “FISHER BURNER / PAT’D JAN. 1913 / 1921 / MADE IN / U.S.A.”
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: Description
content: Edwin H. Fisher, “Gas-Burner,” U.S. Patent 1,364,094 (Jan. 4, 1921), assigned to Scientific Materials Co. of Pittsburgh.
label: Description
content: Fisher Scientific Co., <i>Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents</i> (Pittsburgh, 1926), p. 116.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316207
label: accession number
content: 217523
label: catalog number
content: 316207
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Laboratory Burner
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in; 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in; 19.685 cm x 11.43 cm x 8.5725 cm