Voltameter
name: label: maker
content: L. P. Casella
notes: label: Description
content: This voltameter (or electrolysis apparatus) came from the Smithsonian Instrument Room, and was probably purchased by Joseph Henry, the physicist who served as the founding Secretary of the Institution. It is often termed a Hofmann Voltameter, in reference to the German chemist, August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892). Hofmann probably did not invent or design the apparatus, but he did make it popular. Visitors to the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, held in London in 1876, could see 16 pieces of Hoffman’s apparatus—many of which were used for electrolysis demonstrations—that were manufactured by Warmbrunn, Quilitz & Co., in Berlin. The inscription on this example reads "Casella, London."
label: Description
content: Ref: A. W. von Hofmann, <i>Introduction to Modern Chemistry: Experimental and Theoretic; Embodying Twelve Lectures Delivered in the Royal College of Chemistry London</i> (London, 1866).
label: Description
content: <i>Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus</i> (London, 1876), p. 570.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smithsonian Institution Instrument Room
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315383.04
label: catalog number
content: 315383.04
label: accession number
content: 219902
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrolysis Tube
label: Object Name
content: Voltameter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 661 mm x 51 mm; 26 in x 2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in; 67.31 cm x 4.1275 cm