National Museum of American History
Porosity Apparatus
Unknown artist
This porosity apparatus--also known as a filter (or filtering) cup--showed that, with sufficient pressure, mercury can be forced through wood. This example was purchased from Fortin & Hermann, in Paris, in 1830, for the use of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy.
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