JB/106/067/002

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Receptacles of the subjects of experiment. - they should be transparent

Glass - Florence flasks, - Confectioners glasses - Vials. &c.
nests of glasses - by ye musical glass makers

Closings - 1. Water Stopple on the lip. 2. do. with an oil covering
3. Bladder tied down upon neck with a waxed thread to
bite upon.

Barrels - Earthen ware.

Labels to be affixed to each vessel: with numbers.

Thermometers: & thermoscopes. (note on Rumford's Essays)
principles - fusion - expansion - saturation -decomposition.

1. Fusion of Beeswax 142o of Spermaciti

Coagulat.n of serum 156o of Tallow

Alcohol boils - 174o or 176o Acetite of ammonia melts 170o. sublimes 250o. Higgins (on Acetoni Acid
(p.192

Acetate of potass melts Er? Ether boils at 98o.

2. Expansion. 1o. Direct, Common thermometers {Archaic symbol for mercury}, water, alcohol, water, oil

Air thermometer, with rarefied air or vapour
filled by inverting over first filling with {Archaic symbol for mercury}
inverting over a barometer tube; then introducing
air & raising the tube: then closing it
with the blow pipe.

The scale might easily be enlarged
ad libitum by making the tube wider
& adding a horizontal tube

{Three sketched drawings depicting the contrivances.}

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Identifier: | JB/106/067/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	frigidarium
Folio number	067	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	preservation of uniformity & steadiness of temperature
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f4 / / /
Penner	fr4	Watermarks	pot 1796
Marginals		Paper Producer	fc6
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1796
Notes public	includes drawings	ID Number	34655
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