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Antimony cup, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.081
Scope and Contents

PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Antimony cup for administering medicines. Alchemists believed that the administering vessel affected the power of the medicine.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

Alchemist's laboratory, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.082
Scope and Contents

PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Alchemist's laboratory. Note bellows for intensifying the fire.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

Dobereiner's lamp, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.083
Scope and Contents PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Dobereiner's Lamp: "zink und salzsaure wurd wasserstoff." Inside the lighter, a piece of zinc (not present here) is suspended in the center chamber above (hydrochloric) acid. When the valve at the top is opened, gas escapes, and the level of acid rises so that it makes contact with zinc, generating hydrogen gas. The emitted hydrogen gas flows out the valve and over platinum, which catalyzes its combustion with oxygen (in the air). Thus, one...
Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

Voltaic pile, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.084
Scope and Contents

PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Voltaic pile, note glass insulating rod and wooden ends.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

Hand balance, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.085
Scope and Contents

PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Hand balance, of the type used by a goldsmith, a jeweler, or a pharmacist.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

Hydrometers, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.086
Scope and Contents

PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Hydrometers, used to measure liquid density. The higher the hydrometer floats in the liquid, the more dense the liquid is.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

Apothecary's balance, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.087
Scope and Contents

PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Apothecary's balance. Possibly this elaborate, gaudy balance was for display only.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

18th-Century laboratory, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.088
Scope and Contents

PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Eighteenth-century laboratory.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

18th-Century laboratory, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.089
Scope and Contents

PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Eighteenth-century laboratory.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

Bent funnels, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.090
Scope and Contents

PharmazieHistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Glassware, bent funnels.

Dates: 2000
Found in: Science History Institute Archives / Robert K. Wismer Collection of Chemical Museum Slides

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