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Shelfmark: 20058-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 13; W.: 16; Mass: 160 g.
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: mask
Abstract: A thin sheet-iron mask to cover the face with perforated nose and mouth piece and circular glass eye pieces in protruding fixtures. This would seem to have been made for and used in the classic experiments on respiration and transpiration
 
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name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1790
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
Subject/s
Discipline Topic Argument

Chemistry Respiration Experiments

 
Digital version:  2  Image/s
INV-20058 mckie_255

 

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