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Shelfmark: McKie 125 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 31,5; Diam.: 11,5
 
Component's data
Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: missing instrument
Abstract: Cylindrical earthenware jar with metallic screw-cap. The earthenware is glazed grey. There is an inner cork, below the screw-cap, with fer-blanc ends: the top end of the cork is hollow in the middle, fitted with threaded brass, and into this protruded a fer-blanc cylinder, soldered to the lower fer-blanc end (or disc) at the bottom of the cork.
 
Attributes
Person City Cronology   Position
name: Pierre S. Dupont
resp.: donor
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: -
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)