Object Details
- Description
- With the Reinhardt desiccator, “the whole interior space can be used.” And, “the air-tight ground glass cover cannot slip off, as the flange around the top is slightly turned upward.” C. Reinhardt (1859-1905), a German chemist, introduced the form in the 1890s.
- Ref: Eimer & Amend, Revised and Enlarged Catalogue of Bacteriological Apparatus (New York, 1907), p. 157.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Credit Line
- Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Physical Description
- glass (cover material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 cm x 3 cm; 5 1/2 in x 1 3/16 in
- Object Name
- desiccator
