Name/Title
Glass PiercerEntry/Object ID
2013.3.36Description
Probably the apparatus described in "Perce-verre-èlectrique" in Larousse du xxe Siècle. The few pictures in the "Grand Dictionnaire" of Larousse for the nineteenth century edition are also reproduced in the edition for the twentieth century. This particular piece of apparatus measures six and one-half inches along the base. Figure 515 in D. Lardner (Hand-book of Natural Philosophy, Phila., 1853) shows this apparatus.Collection
Moosnick Museum - Scientific Apparatus