To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 31 December 1825
Chemical Apparatus essential to a well furnished Labratory & Lecture Room.
Knights improved table furnace | $ | 30. | |
Forge Bellows, tubes, blow pipes &c. | 40 | ||
* | Small blast furnace for table | 10. | |
* | Sand heat furnaces to be set on brick work | 16. | |
* | Bellows table with Lamp & blow pipe | 25. | |
Copper still, & Ressigeratory | 20 | ||
Apparatus for Potassium | 10 | ||
* | Still for Flouric Acid | 10. | |
Two wrought Iron Retorts | 15 | ||
Two Cast iron ditto | 6. | ||
* | Leaden Retort & bottles | 5. | |
Jointed & flexible conducting tubes, | 12. | ||
* | Ganometer of Japanned tin, with cocks, tubes &c | } | 35. |
Gasholder with blow pipe | 15 | ||
Hydropneumatic Cistern | 30. | ||
Mercurial trough of stone | 7 | ||
Small pneumatic Cistern | 6. | ||
Apparatus for drying precipitates | 3 | ||
Lamp Apparatus | 20 | ||
* | Hydraulic blowpipe | 10. | |
Lamp for blowpipes | 3 | ||
Laboratory scales & weights | 15. | ||
Iron mortar & pestle | 6. | ||
Iron cones, Crucibles & Ladles | 6 | ||
Filtering paper | 5. | ||
Seives of hair, muslin, & wire | 8. | ||
Diamond for writing on glass | 5 | ||
* | Glazier’s Diamond | 7 | |
Files, Rasps, Knives, Scissors, Nippers, Plyers, hammers &c | 20 | ||
Magnets | 10 | ||
Tongs (various) | 10 | ||
Cylinders of different metals | 2. | ||
Crucibles, Capsules, muffles &c | 12. | ||
Evaporating dishes, Vaserns &c | 10 | ||
Bladders, with cocks & adjustments | 20. | ||
Metallic Buds for shewing the transmission of heat | 8. | ||
* | Exhausting & condensing syringes | 6 | |
* | Figures of Crystals | 12 | |
Galvanic Apparatus—from 50 tr | 150 | ||
Polished Reflectors with stands | 15 | ||
Brass apparatus for experiments with hydrogen | 4 | ||
Earthen Retorts, tubes & funnels | 9. | ||
Wedgewood Mortars | 7 | ||
* | Porcelain spoons & strainers | 2 | |
* | Agate mortar & pestle | 10. | |
Chemicals (Reagents & preparations) | 25. | ||
Compound or Oxyhydrogen blowpipe | 16 | ||
Wire & foil of platina, gold & silver | 10. | ||
Quicksilver for Bath (pneumatic) | 75 | ||
Articles of Glass. | |||
Mercurial & spirit thermometers | 40 | ||
Air thermometers | 15 | ||
Woolf’s Appparatus | 8 | ||
Eudiometers | 15 | ||
Graduated Measures | 5 | ||
* | Nooth’s Apparatus | 20 | |
Air Jars | 25 | ||
Hydrometers | 12 | ||
* | Hygrometers | 6 | |
Cryophorus | 3 | ||
Dropping tubes | 2 | ||
Glass tubes several bts. | 5 | ||
Flasks | 5 | ||
Retorts & Receivers | 35. | ||
* | Syphons | 4 | |
Jars of various kinds for solutions | 10. | ||
Funnels | 4 | ||
Test glasses | 3 | ||
Adopters | 2 | ||
* | Two necked bottles | 4 | |
Alembic | 5 | ||
* | Separators—& heat funnels | 5 | |
* | Glass dishes | 3 | |
Stopperd bottles & Vials | 15 | ||
Spirit lamp | 2 | ||
Gas bottles with signioid tubes | 5. | ||
* | Volter’s inflammable Air lamp | 20. | |
Water Hammer | 3. | ||
[. . .] glasses | 4 | ||
Pneumatic fire pump | 5 | ||
Electrical Apparatus necessary in a laboratory | 20 | ||
$ | 1123 |
* = 190. D
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