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History of Science Museum

Black Damp/Oxygen Metal Gauge in Tin Tube (Haldane Apparatus)

Inventory Number 66301


Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Mrs Lois Godfrey in 1967. Among items taken by the Museum from the private laboratory of her grandfather J. S. Haldane, prior to the demolition of his house (the site of Wolfson College, Oxford).
Physical material
Metal
Glass
Rubber
Wood
Inventory No
66301
Accession Number
1967-66A

Description

Cylindrical black metal case with removable cap that contains a glass and silver metal tube, with measurements marked on the silver metal. It has a rubber band wrapped around one end. It holds a wooden cylinder with a removable cap that contains five wooden(?) sticks.