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flask

flask

Datelate 19th-mid 20th Century
Inventory Number1996-1-0573
ClassificationGlassware
Subject
    Cultural Region
      Dimensions16 x 9 cm (6 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
      Material
        DescriptionA piece of laboratory glassware, whose exact purpose is unknown.

        The glassware consists of a tubular section, open at one end, which terminates in a round glass bulb at the other end.

        Midway along the tube, a second, narrower tube intersects the first tube and extends at a slight angle from it, roughly perpendicular to it. The second tube, approximately the same length as the first tube but thinner, and has an opening at the end.

        Signedunsigned
        FunctionLaboratory glassware, exact function unknown.
        Long closed tube filled with liquid
        American
        Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
        Object number: 1996-1-0580
        undetermined vacuum tube
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Object number: 2008-1-0072
        undetermined vacuum tube
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Object number: 2008-1-0071
        sealed tubes (4)
        American
        Date: 1880-1920
        Accessories: shoebox
        Object number: 1998-1-1469
        Flask with test tube
        American
        Date: 20th-mid 20th Century
        Accessories: cork stopper, woven holder
        Object number: 1997-1-1900
        inclined plane with cycloid curve
        Watkins & Hill
        Date: 1830-1850
        Object number: 1996-1-0461
        hydraulic apparatus ?
        American
        Date: 1870-1930
        Accessories: small rubber hose; tiny metal clamp-like component
        Object number: 1996-1-0426
        conics drawing machine
        Walter Balcke
        Date: 1955
        Accessories: mahogany box with plexiglass lid; pencil; eraser; box of lead; putty ball; cleaning cloth; cardboard instruction card
        Object number: 1997-1-1619
        3 Pieces of thin metal tubing
        American
        Date: 20th Century
        Accessories: Stored in "ALCAZAR" cigar box
        Object number: 1998-1-1475
        Hickman's three-stage self-fractionating diffusion pump
        Distillation Products Industries
        Date: circa 1940
        Object number: 1998-1-0034
        adjustable electric motor
        The W. M. Welch Scientific Company
        Date: 1910-1940
        Object number: 1996-1-0484
        argon isotope separation apparatus
        Kenneth T. Bainbridge
        Date: 1939-1940
        Object number: 1996-1-0407c