Accession No

1597

Brief Description

Oersted’s piezometer, 2/2 19th Century

Origin

Maker

Class

physics

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, white metal, steel); wood; glass

Dimensions

height 695mm; breadth 365mm; depth 160mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. It is recorded in the Cavendish Laboratory's 1894 alphabetical catalogue of apparatus.

Inscription

Description Notes

Black-painted brass circular base on three feet carries tall glass cylinder topped by manometer gauge with tap. The gauge is glazed (glass cracked) with a scale on a white metal face for ‘Kilogr. p˙cm.’ divided 0 - 15, numbered by 5, subdivided to 0.5. Brass tube extends from the base of the main cylinder to an inverted glass cylinder with open top. A brass hand pump with steel piston is positioned halfway along the brass tube, with a brass tap to regulate air flow.

Condition fair; complete.

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