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Replica Chemical Glassware: Alembic Head with Knob, 1952

Inventory Number 59625


Subject
Chemistry
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by Mrs Margaret Sherwood Taylor in 1986. Specially made for Frank Sherwood Taylor for his Royal Institution Christmas Lectures of 1952.
Physical material
Glass
Inventory No
59625
Accession Number
1986-4

Description

One of five replica pieces of glassware made for the late Frank Sherwood Taylor to use in his Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1952 (others are retort 10252, inverted jar 65613, receiving flask 20499, and large flask 79055).