Glass Piercer

Name/Title

Glass Piercer

Entry/Object ID

2013.3.36

Description

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