Glass bulb used by Berthelot
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Glass bulb with two openings used by Marcelin Berthelot
This glass bulb was used by Berthelot in his synthesis of acetylene from carbon and hydrogen, its constituent elements.
Berthelot first prepared acetylene in 1860 by passing ethylene or alcohol through a red-hot tube and also by passing electric sparks through a mixture of cyanogen and hydrogen.
Details
- Category:
- Experimental Chemistry
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- 1977-160
- type:
- laboratory glassware
- credit:
- On loan from the Wellcome Institute
