Object Details
- Description
- Henry Heil (1854-1919) was born in Germany, moved to the United States in 1872, graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, and established the Henry Heil Chemical Co. in 1882. Heil Scientific, as the firm was later known, donated this wooden support to the Smithsonian in 1959. The firm termed it Gay Lussac’s support for retorts, with universal motion and cork-lined jaws.
- Ref: Henry Heil Chemical Co., Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus (St. Louis, 1904), p. 407.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- ca. 1900
- Measurements
- overall: 35.5 cm x 22.8 cm x 17.7 cm; 14 in x 9 in x 6 15/16 in
- overall: 12 in x 7 1/8 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 18.0975 cm x 22.86 cm
- Object Name
- Support, Gay-Lussac's
- support
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