Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) used this leveling funnel bulb in his Northumberland, Pennsylvania laboratory. Priestley, the noted chemist whose accomplishments include the discovery of oxygen, was born in England. He lived and worked in Birmingham for many years, but his views as a Dissenter and an advocate of the French Revolution incited an angry mob into burning down his house and laboratory. In 1794 he fled to America, eventually settling in Northumberland, near Philadelphia. His great-great-granddaughter, Frances Priestley, donated his surviving laboratory ware to the Smithsonian in 1883.
- Source:
- National Museum of American History Accession File #13305
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- used by
- Priestley, Joseph
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Frances D. Priestley
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- opening: 2.5 cm; 31/32 in
- overall: 26.7 cm x 12.7 cm; 10 1/2 in x 5 in
- Object Name
- bulb, leveling funnel
