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Skip to main content Advanced Search Home NIST Museum Artifacts Bomb Calorimeter Bomb Calorimeter Item Description Title Bomb Calorimeter Inventor(s) Dickinson, Hobart Cutler, 1875- Institution National Bureau of Standards Date Made 1929 Narrative This Bomb Calorimeter (BS 7602) was the second of two nearly identical calorimeters designed by Hobart C. Dickinson for bomb calorimetry at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1910. It consists of a stirred-water, constant-temperature jacket containing a covered cavity in which could be placed a calorimeter can, filled with water and containing an electrical heater and the combustion bomb or other reaction vessel. The calorimeter jacket could be maintained at a temperature near 28° Celsius, constant to a few thousandths degree Celsius by means of a toluene-filled temperature sensing device. The water in the calorimeter could be stirred and its temperature measured by a platinum resistance thermometer. Before construction,

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