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Plate 11: Sempervivum tectorum
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of common houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum. Class Dodecandria, order Dodecagynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Sempervivum, Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 9: Butomus umbellatus
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of flowering rush, Butomus umbellatus. Class Enneandria, order Hexagynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 8: Daphne mezereum
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of common mezereon, Daphne mezereum. Class Octandria, order Monogynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Botany, Thymelaeaceae, Mezereon, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 7: Galanthus nivalis
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis. Class Hexandria, order Monogynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Common snowdrop, Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 2: Table of the Classes
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph with examples of the 24 botanical taxonomic classes: Monandria, Diandria, Triandria, Tetrandria, Pentandria, Hexandria, Heptandria, Octandria, Enneandria, Decandria, Dodecandria, Icosandria,…
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 4: Crocus vernus
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of spring crocus, Crocus vernus. Class Triandria, order Monogynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Crocuses, Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 5: Ilex aquifolium
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of common holly, Ilex aquifolium. Class Tetrandria, order Tetragynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Hollies, Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 1: Parts of a Flower
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph illustrating the parts of a flower, using the example of the common wallflower. Included parts are the flower, cup, corolla or blossom, stamen, pistil, seed-vessel, and receptacle.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Botany, Cheiranthus cheiri, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 6: Myosotis palustris
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of water mouse ear, Myosotis palustris, now known as the water forget-me-not. Class Pentandria, order Monogynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 3: Veronica chamaedrys
- Part of Conversations on Botany
- 1817-Apr-02
Hand-colored lithograph of germander speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys. Class Diandria, order Monogynia.
- Artist Milton
- Author Fitton, Sarah Mary, Fitton, Elizabeth
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Botany, Women botanists, Scientific illustration
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Plate 2: Case for producing inflammable gas
- 1783
This case was designed by the Robert brothers, Anne-Jean (1758-1820) and Nicolas Louis (1761-1828) Robert to quickly produce large quantities of hydrogen gas through the reaction of sulfuric acid with iron filings. The…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 1: Robinet
- Faucet
- 1783
This plate illustrates the parts and mechanism of the faucet used to control the gas in the first hydrogen-filled balloon, launched from the Champs de Mars in Paris on August 27, 1783. In the illustration on Plate 3,…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Frontispiece and title page (Plate 5) from Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier [Description of the aerostatic machine experiments of Mr. & Mr. Montgolfier]
- 1783
Inscribed: "Expérience faite à Versaille, en présence de leurs Mejestés et de la Famille Royale, par Mr. Montgolfier, le 19 Sept. 1873. La Machine Aérostatique avoit 57 Pieds de haut sur 41 de Diamètre."
On September…
- Artist Lorimier, Etienne Chevalier de, 1759-1813
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Engraver Delaunay, Nicolas, 1739-1792
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Frontispiece, Ballooning, Title pages, Hot air balloons
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Plate 7: Meusnier’s observations of the hydrogen balloon, August 27, 1783 (figs. 2-6)
- 1783
Jean Baptiste Marie Meusnier (1754-1793), an officer in the French Royal Corps of Engineers and a mathematician, observed the flight of the hydrogen-filled balloon launched from the Champs de Mars in Paris on August 27,…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 3: Filing the balloon with hydrogen gas
- 1783
Illustration relating to the experiment that resulted in the world’s first hydrogen-filled balloon, conducted in Paris in August 1783, in which a taffeta balloon with a rubber coating was filled with hydrogen gas…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Engraver Berthault, Pierre Gabriel, ca. 1748-ca. 1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 4: Machine aerostatique
- Aerostatic machine
- 1783
Inscribed: "de Mr. Montgolfier, construite dans le Jardin de Mr. Reveillon, rue de Montreuil Fauxbourg St. Antoine, aux dépens de l’Académie Royale des Sciences."
Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier (1745-1799) assembled this…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 8: Machine aérostatique
- Aerostatic machine
- 1783
Inscribed: "Machine Aérostatique de 70 Pieds de hauteur sur 46 de Diamètre, qui s’est élevé à Paris, avec deux homme à la hauteur de 324 Pieds le 19. Oct, 1783."
On October 19, 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 9: Bateau volant
- Flying boat
- 1783
Inscribed: "Copié sur celui du Jesuite-Lana."
Faujas de Saint-Fond’s research for Description des expériences took him to the library of the King, where he consulted the book Prodromo, ouero saggio di alcune inuentioni…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Plate 6: Meusnier’s observations of the hydrogen balloon, August 27, 1783 (fig. 1)
- 1783
Jean Baptiste Marie Meusnier (1754-1793), an officer in the French Royal Corps of Engineers and a mathematician, observed the flight of the hydrogen-filled balloon launched from the Champs de Mars in Paris on August 27,…
- Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
- Publisher Cuchet
- Subject Airships, Ballooning, Hot air balloons
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Letter from James C. Sternberg to Dr. Juan Ramirez-Munoz
- 1965-Jul-02
Letter regarding a Technical Roundtable hosted by Beckman Instruments to foster dialogue and innovation within the chemical analysis field in California in the 1960s.
- Addressee Ramirez-Munoz, Juan
- Author Sternberg, James C.
- Subject Hispanic American scientists, Beckman Instruments, Inc., California, Scientists
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Memo from James C. Sternberg to T. E. Kristofferson
- 1965-Aug-06
Dr. Sternberg does not believe that Perkin-Elmer, Inc. can patent a flame ionization detector, as their instrument would be too similar to the one described in this German patent. The Perkin-Elmer instrument would be in…
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Memo from R. Little and J. Sternberg to Wilbur Kaye
- 1965-Sep-21
This internal Beckman Instruments memo documents some of the difficulties of developing a portable glucose monitor. Items under consideration include a digital read out, whole blood versus dialysis or protein…
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Memo from James C. Sternberg to R. J. Steinmeyer
- 1967-Jan-26
This internal Beckman Instruments memo was written just as the first five research prototypes for the new Glucose Analyzer were being sent to external laboratories for evaluation. Dr. Sternberg questions the Beckman…
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Letter from Glenn Joseph to Arnold O. Beckman
- Circa 1933
Glenn Joseph writes to Dr. Beckman about the process of finding the right buffer to use in the new glass electrodes inside the pH meter. The identify of the "Dr. Dupont" referenced in this letter is uncertain.
Arnold…
- Addressee Beckman, Arnold O.
- Author Joseph, Glenn
- Subject Electrodes, Hydrogen-ion concentration--Measurement--Instruments, Sunkist Growers, inc., Scientific apparatus and instruments, Hydrochloric acid, Electrodes, Glass, Scientific apparatus and instruments--Design and construction, California Fruit Growers Exchange, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Job schedule for National Technical Laboratories
- 1934-Jan-09
This job schedule is a snapshot of the work being done by NTL in January, 1934. This work included the important pH meter development for the California Fruit Growers Exchange, of course, but also a project for Lee de…