Student Calorimeter
Unknown Maker
about 1920
Steel beaker with a removable wooden rim. Fiberboard circle rests on top of wooden rim, which has one indentation and two holes in the top. Larger hole is in the center, the smaller to one side. A copper rod runs through the smaller hole and ends in a circular screen which rests inside beaker. Screen very corroded.
Overall: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2002.1.34172
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Scientific Instrument
Research Area
Scientific Instrument
Scientific Instrument: Heat
Not on view
Provenance
Source unknown; catalogued into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, 2002.
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