Object Details
Description
Auguste Fernbach (1860-1939), a biologist working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, found that a current of air favored the growth of the diptheria bacillus. The Fernbach flask was designed to take advantage of that observation. This example was probably made in Bohemia, and imported into the United States by the Henry Heil Chemical Co.
Ref: Henry Heil Chemical Co., Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus (St. Louis, 1903), p. 232.
Location
Currently not on view
ID Number
CH.315972
catalog number
315972
accession number
222972
Object Name
Fernbach Flask
Physical Description
glass (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 5 1/2 in x 8 in; 13.97 cm x 20.32 cm
overall: 5 in x 7 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 19.685 cm x 19.685 cm
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1900