Object Details
- Description
- Footed glass vial with ground glass stopper and paper label. Vial is full of white crystals. Label on bottle reads: PRIVATE COLLECTION / Monobromated / Camphor / (1873) C10H15BrO / F. B. POWER.
- Object recorded as "First pure monobromated camphor made in the United States. Prepared by Dr. F. B. Power in 1873, while employed in Parrish's Pharmacy at 8th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia, PA."
- Frederick Belding Power (1853-1927) graduated from the College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia in 1874. In 1880 he earned his doctorate from the University of Strasburg in Germany after which he returned to Philadelphia to teach analytical chemistry at the College of Pharmacy. From 1883 to 1892 Dr. Power chaired the newly established pharmacy department at the University of Wisconsin. In 1896 Henry S. Wellcome selected Dr. Power to become the first director of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory in London. From 1916 to1927 Dr. Power headed the Phytochemical Laboratory at the United States Department of Agriculture.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Power, Frederick B.
- date made
- 1873
- Credit Line
- Dr. Frederick B. Power
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.0175 cm x 4.445 cm
- Object Name
- Camphor, Monobromated
- pharmaceutical
- Other Terms
- Camphor, Monobromated; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
