Name/Title
EudiometerEntry/Object ID
2013.3.29Description
Robert Hare was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania at the time he designed this piece of apparatus. He called it an Aqueous Sliding Rob Hydro-Oxygen Eudiometer. It is illustrated on page 223 of his book (A compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Third Edition, by Franklin Bache, M.D., 1836, Philadelphia).
For contrast in the construction of eudiometers, Figure 43 (center) shows one designed by Volta. A good description and figure of this instrument is given as fig. 11, Plate 2, by M. LeBaron and J.L. Thenard (Traite de Chimie, Bruxelles, 1836).Collection
Moosnick Museum - Scientific Apparatus