Globe Receiver
notes: label: Description
content: Globe receivers with two outlets at right angles to one another were widely used for distillation experiments. This example is glass and measures about 4 inches diameter. It came from the Draper family and may date from the mid-nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Joseph Griffin, Chemical Recreations (Glasgow, 1834), p. 18.
label: Description
content: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 2, p. 63
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.334001
label: catalog number
content: 334001
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Globe Receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 cm x 10.8 cm x 8.2 cm; 4 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 9/16 in x 5 in x 3 3/8 in; 11.58875 cm x 12.7 cm x 8.5725 cm