Ceresine Bottle
notes: label: Description
content: Edward Hart (1854-1931) was a chemist with a PhD from Johns Hopkins University (his was perhaps the first Hopkins doctorate) who taught at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pa., for some 57 years. He patented a ceresine bottle for storing acids in 1890 and received the John Scott Medal for this achievement in 1891. This bottle is of that sort. Ceresin is a naturally-occurring waxy substance akin to paraffin.
label: Description
content: The inscription on the cardboard cylinder reads “Acid Hydrofluosilicic” and “BA. . .’S Analyzed / THE HIGHEST TYPE OF / Chemical Reagents.” This refers to the J. T. Baker Chemical Co., a firm that offered chemicals of the "highest degree of purity commercially available." John Townsend Baker (1860-1935) was a Lafayette graduate who had worked with Hart, and probably encouraged him to develop the ceresine bottle.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward Hart, “Acid-Bottle,” U.S. Patent 423,683 (March 18, 1890), assigned to himself, John Townsend Baker, and George Purseglove Adamson.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Department of Chemistry, Catholic University of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316902
label: catalog number
content: 316902
label: accession number
content: 229658
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bottle, Wax
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 20.955 cm x 9.525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 21.2725 cm x 9.525 cm