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
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Diphtheria
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1900
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e7de-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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