Instruments & Innovation

Figure 7. Blowpipe, self-acting Spirit for bending glass tubes, Tin.
Figure 8. Blowpipe, self-acting in brass with sliding Lamp.
Figure 9. Blowpipe, Glassblower's Table, with double bellows, jets, lamp, and stand,…

Figure 20. Furnace, Round Iron, very useful.
Figure 21. Furnace, Dr. Black's.
Figure 22. Furnace, on Professor Brande's Principle, made to order, price according to size.
Figure 23. Pair of large Pepy's Copper…

Figure 28. Lamps, Berzelius's portable Blowpipe.
Figure 29. Lamp, Cooper's for heating Tubes.
Figure 30. Lamp, Davy's Safety.
Figure 31. Lamp, Farraday's, with four wicks, as recommended in his chemical manipulations.…

Figure 39. Mercurial Troughs, iron, very superior with Pepy's Gasometer attached.
Figure 40. Palmer's Gas Lamp for heating tubes, which screws on to a common gas pillar.
Figure 41. Palmer's Chemical Amusement and…

Figure 50. Retort Stand large, brass, with tubulated retort, receiver.
Figure 51. Scales, Chemical, with decimal weights to the tenth of a grain, brass pans, warranted to weigh accurately to the tenth of a grain.

These…

Figure 58. Best Wheel Barometer with Thermometer & Spirit Level, plain mounted.
Figure 59. Best Wheel Barometer with screw Hygrometer, rosewood inlaid with pearl and German silver fittings, very elegant.
Figure 60. Upri…

Glass bulbs when filled with a potassium hydroxide solution are used for the absorption of carbon dioxide in chemical analysis. Types of potash bulbs depicted here include: Geissler's, Geissler-Wetzel's, Alvergnat's,…

Image 5594: "Apparatus for the simultaneous electrolytical decomposition of water, hydrochloric acid and ammonia."

Various apparatus and pipettes for absorption and determination of gases.

5273. For estimation of methane, with platinum spiral.
5274. For determination of oxygen by the exact method.
5280. Palladium Tube.
5282.…

4235. Battery, so-called "Crowfoot".
4237. Battery, Leclanche.
4238. Battery, Dipping.
4240. Battery, Type "S" Cell.

4591. Burner, "Vulcan Stove".
4599. Burner, Bunsen, with attachment for holding flasks.

Various distilling apparatus: Axtell's, Krafft & Noerdlinger's, Muencke's, Bruehl's.

Electrostatic induction device with plates and electrodes.

4880a. For purifying mercury, U. S. Weather Bureau pattern.
4881. With central condenser, suitable for nitrogen, alcohol etc.
4882. For the recovery of volatile solvents used in extraction.

Devices converting chemical reactions to electric energy.

From Manufacturing Chemists' Association Catalog for Standard Laboratory Apparatus, Part 1.

Nitrometers, reaction bulb and compensating tube.

From Manufacturing Chemists' Association Catalog for Standard Laboratory Apparatus, Part 1.

Nitrometer, general assembly of parts.

From Manufacturing Chemists' Association Catalog for Standard Laboratory Apparatus, Part 1.

Nitrometer Hooks.

From Manufacturing Chemists' Association Catalog for Standard Laboratory Apparatus, Part 1.

Nitrometer attachments: reservoir bulb, manifold, and support used on universal tube.

From Manufacturing Chemists' Association Catalog for Standard Laboratory Apparatus, Part 1.

DuPont Nitrometer. Used to measure and collect nitrogen from a chemical reaction.

From Manufacturing Chemists' Association Catalog for Standard Laboratory Apparatus, Part 1.

Mohr Pipettes. Invented by Karl Friedrich Mohr.

From Manufacturing Chemists' Association Catalog for Standard Laboratory Apparatus, Part 1.

Burette No. 4. Burette with bulb and 3 way stopcock, 0-75 ml bulb capacity, 75-100 graduated in 1/10th ml.