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flask

Date1880-1930
Inventory Number4017
ClassificationGlassware
Subject
    Cultural Region
      Dimensions13 x 9 cm (5 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
      Material
        DescriptionRound flask with a threaded brass cap. The glass is very thin. Marked with old Harvard numbers not entirely legible: "6-66" and "?-?3".
        Signedunsigned
        FunctionUsed in weighing gases.
        Flask with test tube
        American
        Date: 20th-mid 20th Century
        Accessories: cork stopper, woven holder
        Object number: 1997-1-1900
        5 reed organ pipes and 5 pipe boots
        American
        Date: 1880-1925
        Object number: 2007-1-0135
        cylindrical glass
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Object number: 1996-1-0569
        box of light bulbs
        Thomson-Houston Electric Company
        Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
        Object number: 1997-1-0767
        1045p:  set of 5 Tolles eyepieces
        Robert B. Tolles
        Date: 1855-1876
        Object number: 1045p
        Rakestraw mineral collection with accessories
        George Gilbert Rakestraw
        Date: 1878-1905
        Accessories: microscope in its box (2004-1-0339b) ; bullseye condensers (2003-1-0339c,d); mineralogy books (in the CHSI library)
        Object number: 2004-1-0339a
        round bottom flask
        American
        Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
        Accessories: glass base stand
        Object number: 1997-1-1228
        round bottom flask
        American
        Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
        Object number: 1997-1-1232