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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