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Shelfmark: 20019-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: L.: 11,5; Diam.; 3; Mass: 10 g.
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: apparatus
Abstract: Glass bulb with one short open end and the other attached to short graduated capillary tube. There is a thread of mercury at the top of the capillary tube. The capillary tube is graduated (marked in diamond) from the top and marked 10, 20, 30 (each unit one mark), and there are six intervals below 30.
 
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Person City Cronology   Position
name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1760
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)