Accession No

1443

Brief Description

Despretz’s apparatus to demonstrate conduction of heat in metals, by Warmbrunn Quilitz and Company Ltd., German, 2/2 19th Century

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Warmbrunn Quilitz and Company

Class

metallurgy; demonstration

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

wood; metal (brass, cast iron, steel)

Dimensions

length 810mm; breadth 200mm; height 495mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

‘WARMBRUNN QUILITZ & CO
BERLIN.’ (base)

Description Notes

Rectangular wooden base supports one rectangular wooden standard and one steel standard. Also carries a cast iron circular base for brass column. Set on top of the brass column and passing out through the wooden standard is an iron base with a bowl-shaped depression at the end which is next to the wooden standard. A parallel brass bar is supported at some distance above the iron bar, between the two standards. Both bars have a series of round holes piercing them.

Condition fair

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