Enclosure: John Griscom’s Recommended List of Chemical Apparatus, [ca. 24 March 1824]
Enclosure
John Griscom’s Recommended List of Chemical Apparatus
[ca. 24 Mar. 1824]
Chemical Apparatus essential to a well furnished Laboratory & Lecture Room.
| Knights improvd table furnace | $ | 30. | ||
| Forge Bellows, tubes, blow pipes &c. | 40 | |||
| * | Small blast furnace for table | 10. | ||
| * | Sand heat furnace, to be set in brick work | 16. | ||
| * | Bellows table with Lamp & blow pipe | 25. | ||
| Copper Still, & Refrigeratory | 20 | |||
| Apparatus for Potassium | 10 | |||
| * | Still for Fluoric acid | 10. | ||
| Two wrought Iron Retorts | 15 | |||
| Two Cast iron ditto | 6. | |||
| * | Leaden Retort & bottles | 5. | ||
| Jointed & flexible conducting tubes, | 12. | |||
| * | Gazometer 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 | |||
| Laboratory1 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, basins &c | 10 | |||
| Bladders, with cocks & adjustments | 20. | |||
| metallic Rods for shewing the transmission of heat | 8. | |||
| * | Exhausting & condensing Syringes | 6 | ||
| * | Figures of Crystals | 12 | ||
| Galvanic Apparatus— | from 50 to | 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 Apparatus2 | 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 lbs. | 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 Sigmoid tubes | 5. | |||
| * | Volta’s inflammable Air lamp | 20. | ||
| Water Hammer | 3. | |||
| Pulse glasses | 4 | |||
| Pneumatic fire pump | 5 | |||
| Electrical Apparatus necessary in a laboratory | 20 | |||
| $ | 1123 | |||
MS (ViU); in Griscom’s hand; undated; running totals editorially omitted; with notation by TJ at foot of text: “* = 190. D” (correctly, $210).
refrigeratory: “A container at the head of a still filled with cold water through which the worm passes, for condensing vapour; any container or apparatus employed for a similar purpose.” muffles: a muffle is “A cover which encloses an object that is to be heated in a furnace or kiln and shields it from the flames and the products of combustion” (both OED).
Arthur woolf’s apparatus was a patented system for converting water and other liquids into vapor or steam. John Mervin nooth’s apparatus was a series of three conjoined glass vessels used to create carbon dioxide-infused “spa water” (ODNB).
cryophorus: “An instrument for demonstrating the freezing of water by evaporation.” spirit lamp: “A lamp in which alcohol or methylated spirit is burned, typically used for purposes other than lighting, such as heating or cooking.” pulse glass: “a partially evacuated glass tube with a bulb at one or both ends and containing a small amount of water or alcohol, which when grasped by the hand exhibits a momentary agitation which is repeated at each beat of the holder’s pulse as the heat of the hand vaporizes the liquid” (all OED).
1. Manuscript: “Labroratory.”
2. Manuscript: “Appparatus.”
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