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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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