- Subject
- Laboratory equipment
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Presented by Mr A. C. Longland, J. P. of Abingdon
- Primary inscriptions
- Unsigned and undated
- Physical material
- copper alloy
- Dimensions
- Height: 240mm Width: 60mm Depth: 195mm Weight: 590g
- Inventory No
- 54524
- Accession Number
- 1964-230
Description
These furnaces were first developed in the 1830s for gas. Made of sheet copper, in the formof a steeply pitched roof with adjustable tube supports at each end of the ridge. The gas tube enters at the base but there is no tap or inlet control.
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