Box 1
Contains 109 Results:
Florentine separatory flask, 2000
Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Florentine separatory flask was used to separate liquids of different densities before the advent of separatory funnels. The more dense liquid stays at the bottom and can be poured off the spout.
Alembic, 2000
Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. An alembic was used for distillation until the end of the 19th century. Vapors of the liquid heated in the flask at the bottom condensed on the inside of the cooler head and were drawn off at the spout.
Kekulé's analytical balance, 2000
Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. August Kekulé von Stradonitz's analytical balance, brought with him from Germany.
Kekulé's balance, 2000
Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. August Kekulé von Stradonitz's analytical balance, made for him in Belgium. (University of Ghent was established in 1817).
Curie-type balance, 2000
Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Balance designed by Pierre Curie, who invented the damper. This is an aperiodic precision balance. Society Central de Produits Chemies.
Kekulé's blackboard, 2000
Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. August Kekulé von Stradonitz's blackboard.
Manually operated mercury vacuum pump, 2000
Bakelite buret, 2000
Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Transparent, dark brown Bakelite buret. First pieces handmade by Leo Baekeland. This buret was probably among a group that was sent to the American Chemical Society. [Leo Baekeland's father-in-law, Schwartz, was Kekule's successor at Ghent.]
Duboscq colorimeter, 2000
Wooden test tube holders, 2000
Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Wooden test tube holders.