A Natterer compressor was a type of
air compression machine which was used in early experiments in making
liquid oxygen
Liquid oxygen—abbreviated LOx, LOX or Lox in the aerospace, submarine and gas industries—is the liquid form of molecular oxygen. It was used as the oxidizer in the first liquid-fueled rocket invented in 1926 by Robert H. Goddard, an app ...
(LOX) in the 1870s. A manually operated screw jack was utilized to compress air or other gases up to ~200
atm (~3000
psi
Psi, PSI or Ψ may refer to:
Alphabetic letters
* Psi (Greek) (Ψ, ψ), the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet
* Psi (Cyrillic) (Ѱ, ѱ), letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, adopted from Greek
Arts and entertainment
* "Psi" as an abbreviatio ...
).
The device was created by Johann Natterer, a student of
Adolf Martin Pleischl, for experiments creating liquid carbonic acid.
References
Gas compressors
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