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distilling flask
distilling flask

distilling flask

Date1868
Inventory Number2016-1-0009
ClassificationFlask
Maker Isaac Adams, Jr. 1836 - 1911
Dimensions6.7 × 8.2 × 5.6 cm (2 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.)
blue board box: 12.7 × 20.3 × 55.9 cm (5 × 8 × 22 in.)
Descriptionsmall Dewar flask with connecting flasks
experimental incandescent light, high current, low resistance
Isaac Adams, Jr.
Date: 1865
Accessories: stored in modern cardboard tube with cotton wool. square wooden box, unmarked, with a sliding cover; a small, approximately 2"x3" cardboard box, used for shipping, with postage indicating its use in 1930, from Daniel Lowe & Co., Salem, Massachusetts, to Mrs. R. Adams, Antisquam, Massachusetts.
Object number: 1997-1-1949
seven small nickel cubes in glass bottle
Isaac Adams, Jr.
Date: date 1868
Object number: 1997-1-1974
graphite crucible
Isaac Adams, Jr.
Object number: 2016-1-0003
bedwarmer
Isaac Adams, Jr.
Object number: 2016-1-0007
two glass bricks
Isaac Adams, Jr.
Date: 1880
Object number: 2016-1-0008
set of six hydrometers
Isaac Adams, Jr.
Date: circa 1890
Object number: 2016-1-0012
canister that contained graphite crucible
Isaac Adams, Jr.
Object number: 2016-1-0003a
small Dewar flask
Object number: 2016-1-0010
small flask with ground-connection tubing
American
Date: late 19th-mid 20th Century
Accessories: ground connection tubing
Object number: 1998-1-0767
flat flask for the spectroscopic study of liquids
Date: 1850-1900
Object number: 2007-1-0508
double flasks connected by Z-shaped tube
American
Date: 1870-1920
Accessories: contains cork stopper with thin glass tube
Object number: 4270
flat flask for the spectroscopic study of liquids
French
Date: 1850-1875
Object number: 2007-1-0506