Musket Barrel
notes: label: Description
content: This iron barrel of a musket came from T. Morris Perot III, a businessman whose ancestors established a malting company (or brewery) in Philadelphia in the late eighteenth century. Joseph Priestley had similar gun barrels in his laboratory and used them for chemical experiments.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. T. Morris Perot, III
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.328876
label: catalog number
content: 328876
label: accession number
content: 277638
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Barrel of a Musket
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: bore: 19 mm; x 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 110 mm x 32 mm; 4 5/16 in x 1 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 43 3/16 in x 1 1/4 in; 109.69625 cm x 3.175 cm