Tantalus Cup
notes: label: Description
content: This glass instrument— known as a tantalus cup or phythagorean cup, and used for parlor tricks and physics demonstrations—empties itself when the liquid reaches the height of the bend in the siphon. This example was used at Gettysburg College.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments (New York, 1848), vol. 1, p.
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: 1982.0104.01
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0104.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0104
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tantalus cup
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in; 26.035 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 26.035 cm x 13.97 cm