Bell Jar
notes: label: Description
content: This long and narrow bell jar designed to hold a mercury barometer came from the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., a school that was established in 1870s as the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth. It may date from 1916 when the school moved into a new building specially built for the purpose.
label: Description
content: Ref: L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., <i>Harcourt Equipment for Physics</i> (Cambridge, 1928), p. 83.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.323751
label: catalog number
content: 323751
label: accession number
content: 252354
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bell jar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 90.17 cm x 14.605 cm x 14.605 cm