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I Vote for the LIGHT One--More Payload!
- Magnesium: Lightest of All Structural Metals
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement depicts two men examining model aircrafts, with the one man favoring the lighter one made…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Magnesium, Magnesium alloys, Magnesium industry and trade, Aircraft industry
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Components of an echelon lens
- Part of The Phenomena and Laws of Heat
- 1869
Engraved plate illustrates an echelon lens, often used in lighthouses. Constructed in several layers, the central lens is extended in a series of annular rings. The thick glass absorbs less heat and light than lenses of…
- Author Cazin, Achille, 1832-1877
- Publisher Scribner & Co.
- Editor Laplante, C.
- Artist Jahandier, A.
- Subject Rich, Elihu, 1819-1875, Heat, Thermometers, Heat--Conduction, Evaporation, Global warming, Scientific illustration
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"Let's Take the One I Can Carry Upstairs!"
- Magnesium: Lightest of All Structural Metals
- 1946
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement depicts a husband and wife shopping for vacuum cleaners, with the wife favoring the lighter…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Magnesium, Magnesium alloys, Magnesium industry and trade, Women in advertising
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To Gladden Hearts and Lighten Labor
- Dowmetal...The World's Lightest Structural Alloy
- 1937
Color print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features a scene of a family at Christmastime and focuses on a daughter presenting her…
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Bernières' immense burning glass
- Part of The Phenomena and Laws of Heat
- 1869
Engraved plate illustrates M. de Bernières' immense burning glass, capable of causing combustion through the use of lenses and sunlight. Sunlight passes through two lenses projected onto a combustible surface causing…
- Author Cazin, Achille, 1832-1877
- Publisher Scribner & Co.
- Engraver Laplante, C.
- Artist Jahandier, A.
- Subject Rich, Elihu, 1819-1875, Heat--Conduction, Bernières, M. de, Combustion, Scientific illustration
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Spectrum of sodium / Solar spectrum / Action of prism on simple rays
- Part of The Phenomena and Laws of Heat
- 1869
Frontispiece illustration contains three figures. Figure six is entitled "Spectrum showing the absorptive power of Sodium vapor," which is a spectrum of sodium. Replicating Sir Isaac Newton's (1642-1727) discovery,…
- Author Cazin, Achille, 1832-1877
- Publisher Scribner & Co.
- Engraver Robin, A.
- Subject Rich, Elihu, 1819-1875, Spectrum analysis, Sodium, Spectrum, Solar, Cazin, Achille, 1832-1877, Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, Scientific illustration
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Blood Spectra
- Part of Micro-Chemistry of Poisons
- 1885
Chromolithographed frontispiece plate illustrates the solar spectrum in figure one with blood spectra as follows:
2: oxy haemogloben
3: haemoglobin (reduced haemoglobin)
4: methaemoglobin
5: acid haematin
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Fog tracks from radium
- 1919 (Date of publication)
Plate features photographs by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959) of the fog tracks of radium. Figures one and two illustrate the paths of helium atoms, with an enlargement in figure three. Figure four shows the…
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Life cycle of a silkworm from egg to moth
- 1882
Illustration of the life cycle of a silkworm including the egg, worm, moultings, spinning, cocoon, and chrysalis. The process is elegantly displayed on a tree.
This illustration comes from An Instruction Book in the…
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Portrait of John Mayow
- 1674 (Date of engraving)
- 1919 (Date of publication)
Portrait plate of John Maynow (1641-1679) reproduced from an engraving by William Faithorne. Maynow was an English chemist, physician, physiologist and pneumatic chemist who is known for his early research on the nature…
- Author Smith, Alexander, 1865-1922
- Publisher The Century Co.
- Engraver Faithorne, William, 1616-1691
- Subject Textbooks, Mayow, John, 1641-1679, Portraits, Scientists
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Frontispiece: Portrait of Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov
- 1787 (Date of painting)
- 1919 (Date of publication)
Frontispiece portrait of Mikhail Vasilʹevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), after the painting by G. C. Prenner. Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer who discovered the atmosphere of Venus and the law of…
- Author Smith, Alexander, 1865-1922
- Publisher The Century Company
- After Prenner, Georg Kaspar, approximately 1720-1766
- Subject Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilʹevich, 1711-1765, Portraits, Scientists
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How Corticelli Silk is Made
- An Illustration of the Mode of Producing Silk
- 1882
A foldout plate illustrating the various steps and cycles of silkworm cultivation and raw silk manufacture. Illustrated by Albert Berghaus, this plate first appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on August 19,…
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Frontispiece: Portrait of Raphael Meldola
- Part of Raphael Meldola
- 1916
Frontispiece portrait photographic reproduction of Rachael Meldola (1849-1915) who was a British chemist and entomologist.
Of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish descent, Meldola was the first president of the Maccabaeans,…
- Author Marchant, James, Sir, 1867-1956
- Publisher Williams & Norgate
- Photographer Elliott & Fry
- Subject Meldola, Raphael, 1849-1915, Chemists--Biography, Jewish scientists, Jews, Fraternal organizations, Naturalists, Astronomers, College teachers, Chemistry teachers, Portraits
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Frontispiece: Fifty one male scientists of Great Britain living in the years 1807-8
- 1821
Foldout frontispiece illustration entitled "Key to the Engraving of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain 1807-8" depicts all fifty one scientists whose biographies are included in this work. They are…
- Author Walker, William, 1821-
- Publisher W. Walker & Son
- Subject Scientists--Biography, Scientists, Chemists, Astronomers, Engineers, Naturalists, Portraits, Portraits, British, Portraits, Group
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The Chicken is First!
- 1951
Color print advertisement for synthetic methionine and other amino acids manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for use in pharmaceuticals and medical and nutritional research. The advertisement features an…
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Dow Methionine Gives Dog Foods NEW Nutritional Punch ... NEW Sales Punch
- 1955
Black and white print advertisement for synthetic methionine manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company as a food additive. The advertisement features a photographic reproduction of a woman holding a dog and…
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A 'Scientist' in His Own Right!
- 1951
Color print advertisement for synthetic methionine and other amino acids manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for use in pharmaceuticals and medical and nutritional research. The advertisement features an…
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Plate V: Diagram for measuring magnified objects
- Part of The Microscope Made Easy
- 1743
This diagram engraving and accompanying chapter X entitled "To find out the real Size of Objects Seen by Microscopes" gives direction for how objects under magnification can be measured. The circle labeled ABCD…
- Author Baker, Henry, 1698-1774
- Publisher Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764
- Engraver Wigley, J, Gravdot, H.
- Subject Baker, Henry, 1698-1774, Microscopy, Textbooks, Animalcules, Microscopes, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Plate IV: Microscope for opaque objects
- Part of The Microscope Made Easy
- 1743
Engraved plate depicts the components of a microscope that can examine opaque objects. Using the compass microscope as a basis for the design, this microscope incorporated a hinged focusing system with a reflector or…
- Author Baker, Henry, 1698-1774
- Publisher Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764
- Engraver Wigley, J, Gravdot, H.
- Subject Baker, Henry, 1698-1774, Microscopy, Textbooks, Animalcules, Microscopes, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Scientific illustration
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Plate III: The double reflecting microscope
- Part of The Microscope Made Easy
- 1743
Plate III depicts the double reflecting microscope, which is described as having a greater ease of use than John Marshall's (1663-1725) great double microscope. The components and operation are discussed in detail in…
- Author Baker, Henry, 1698-1774
- Publisher Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764
- Engraver Wigley, J, Gravdot, H.
- Subject Baker, Henry, 1698-1774, Microscopy, Textbooks, Animalcules, Microscopes, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Scientific illustration
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Plate II: Pocket microscope
- Part of The Microscope Made Easy
- 1743
Engraved plate depicts the components of a pocket microscope with a mirror or speculum used to project light through the specimen. The parts and functionality are explained in detail in chapter IV, entitled "A new…
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Plate I: Single pocket-microscope
- Part of The Microscope Made Easy
- 1743
Engraved plate depicts the components of James Wilson's (active 1702-1710) single pocket-microscope, which is explained in detail in chapter III. Wilson introduced this screw-barrel microscope to the Royal Society in…
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Astronomie
- 1767
Plate illustrates the moon's craters (figure 20), an armillary sphere (figure 21), celestial positioning (figures 19, 22-24, 26) and a comet (figure 25). This plate comes from the "Astronomie" section of Volume 5 of…
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Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
- 1856
Authored by American scientific writer, editor and lecturer Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887). Popularizing science, Youmans founded Popular Science magazine. Digitized in entirety, this textbook uses color…
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Earthenware mid-century domed leech jar
- Circa 1950
Leeches have been used in medicine since ancient times. During the Victorian era, French physician Francois-Joseph-Victor Broussais sparked a boom in the leech trade with his popular theory that diet, bloodletting, and…
- Subject Leeches, Phlebotomy, Apothecary jars