Ingenhousz’s Apparatus

Double walled copper cylinder, 340 x 60 mm, mounted on steam boiler, with thermometer tubule at top and side outlets for manometer and draining.

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.

Two cast metal uprights, height 18 cm, fitted with two nickel plated rods supporting expansion bar of length 38 cm. Expansion bar is fixed to one upright and moves a pointer on the other, when heated. With scale reading 0 to 90°, supplied with one each, aluminium, brass and iron expansion bars.