Bar Breaking Apparatus

Consisting of a joint less copper calorimeter 75 x 50 mm on rubber supports, spun outer copper vessel of 100 x 75 mm diameter copper lid for outer vessel with central tubule for thermometer and slit for copper stirrer, with a looped copper stirrer for the inner vessel.

Brass and iron, 200 x 25 mm, reverted, with wooden handle.

To determine the co-efficient of absolute expansion of mercury. Glass tubes with vertical limbs contained within glass jackets approx. 460 x 25 mm height x diameter, are closed by bungs and fitted with inlet and outlet tubes. Upper ends of these vertical limbs are angled on emergence from the jackets to produce two short, adjacent limbs placed against a silvered glass scale 0 to 12 cm x 1 mm. Mounted on stand 610 x 230 mm, height x width. Overall height 750 mm approx., supplied without mercury.