Hero's Fountain
notes: label: Description
content: Hero’s Fountain is a classic demonstration of fluid pressure that has long been attributed to Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (ca. 120 B.C.E.). This example came from Princeton University, and was probably made in the nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Physical Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1888), p. 23
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.330599
label: catalog number
content: 330599
label: accession number
content: 299612
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hero's Fountain
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 in x 13 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 104.14 cm x 34.29 cm x 29.21 cm