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bell jar

bell jar

Date1850-1900
Inventory Number2005-1-0011
ClassificationBell Jar
Subject
    Maker American
    Cultural Region
      Place of Use
        Dimensions33 x 25.5 cm (13 x 10 1/16 in.)
        Material
          DescriptionGlass bell jar with spherical handle at the top and lip around the wide opening.
          In Collection(s)
          Signedunsigned
          FunctionSuch bell jars were common in experiments requiring a vacuum. Though this one was used in a chemistry department in the middle of the twentieth century, it is similar to what experimenters would have employed on the W. & S. Jones air-pump (to which it is associated right now).
          Historical AttributesCollected from the estate of Robert Hutton, Professor of Chemistry at Brandeis University. Dr. Hutton was a former student of Professor Frank Westheimer from Harvard's Department of Chemistry. It was transferred from Dr. Westheimer's lab to Harvard's Mallinkrodt Hall in 1955.
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