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Figures 20-23. Furnace Stoves, For Experimental Purposes, Made to Order
- 1840
Figure 20. Furnace, Round Iron, very useful.
Figure 21. Furnace, Dr. Black's.
Figure 22. Furnace, on Professor Brande's Principle, made to order, price according to size.
Figure 23. Pair of large Pepy's Copper… -
Figures 188 and 189. Electromagnetic Apparatus
- 1840
Illustrations for catalog listings. The first, Figure 188, depicts an Electro-magnetic Machine, "forming a powerful and portable apparatus for the application of medical electricity; also a highly interesting instrument…
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Figures 149-157. Plate Electrical Machines
- 1840
Figure 149. Hand Spiral consisting of two glass tubes with brass caps, the interior one being covered in a spiral form with spangles of tin foil, showing, when presented to an excited conductor, a continuous stream of…
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Figures 136-148. Plate Electrical Machines
- 1840
Figure 136. Egg Stand for passing the charge of a Leyden jar through eggs, oranges, &c. whereby they become luminous in a darkened room.
Figure 137. Electrical Swing for showing the repulsion of bodies similiarly… -
Figures 124-135. Plate Electrical Machines
- 1840
Figure 124. Medical Jars mounted with Lane's discharging Electrometer to regulate the intensity of shock given to a patient.
Figure 125. Electrical Cannon for firing a mixture of hydrogen and atmospheric air by a spark… -
Figures 113-123. Plate Electrical Machines
- 1840
Figure 113. Henley's Quadrant Electrometer with graduated arc, for experiments with accumulated electricity.
Figure 114. Bennet's Gold-leaf Electroscope, with Singer's Improvement whereby the instrument is better… -
Figures 109-112. An Electric Machine and Electrometers
- 1840
Figure 109. Double 18-ich Electrical Machine a very splendid and powerful instrument, on Woodward's principle.
Figure 110. Harris's Unit Jar Electrometer with graduated slider, for charging other Leyden jars, or… -
Figures 101-104. Pneumatic Apparatus
- 1840
Figure 101. Single Transferer
Figure 102. Double Transferer
Figure 103. Guinea and Feather Apparatus with 2 falls
Figure 104. Leslie's Pump for making Ice in any climate with three Receiver Plates each.These…
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Philosophy in Sport Made in Earnest : Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of the Popular Toys and Sports, Volume 3
- 1827
Dedicated to the celebrated novelist Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), this work is written in the form of a novel for young people in which the scientific principles underlying many games and toys are explained to two…
- Author Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856
- Publisher Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
- Artist Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Educational toys, Physics, Thaumatropes, Motion pictures, Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856, Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849
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Philosophy in Sport Made in Earnest : Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of the Popular Toys and Sports, Volume 2
- 1827
Dedicated to the celebrated novelist Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), this work is written in the form of a novel for young people in which the scientific principles underlying many games and toys are explained to two…
- Author Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856
- Publisher Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
- Artist Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Educational toys, Physics, Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856, Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849
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Philosophy in Sport Made in Earnest : Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of the Popular Toys and Sports, Volume 1
- 1827
Dedicated to the celebrated novelist Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), this work is written in the form of a novel for young people in which the scientific principles underlying many games and toys are explained to two…
- Author Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856
- Publisher Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
- Artist Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Educational toys, Physics, Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856, Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849
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A New System of Chemical Philosophy
- 1808 – 1827
First edition of a milestone work in the history of chemistry, in which Dalton announced his revolutionary atomic theory and laws of definite and multiple proportions. As outlined by Dalton, these fundamental laws…
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Plate 9: Various bottles, receivers, and vessels
- 1824
Depicts assorted bottles (cast iron; gas; with various necks), adopters, pelican, matrass, air jars, compound distillatory apparatus, balloon receivers, and conducting tubes.
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 8: Casting molds and cones; tongs; atmometer
- 1824
Depicts casting molds and cones, cupel and crucible tongs, an anvil in figure 10, and an atmometer in figure 14.
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 7: Lixiviating tubs; filtration fountain; chemical lamp furnace; distillatory apparatus; mortars
- 1824
Depicts lixiviating tubs in figure 1, a filtration fountain in figure 5, chemical lamp furnace in figure 6, compound distillatory apparatus in figure 14, as well as an alembic, hydrostatic balance, hydrometer, and iron…
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 6: Distillatory apparatus; gravimeters; Nooth's apparatus
- 1824
Depicts distillatory apparatuses, gravimeters, a boiler in figure 6, and Nooth's apparatus in figure 8, for preparing water containing carbon dioxide.
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 5: Hygrometer; gasometers; mephitic water apparatus
- 1824
Depicts a hygrometer, gasometers, blowpipe forceps, magnifier, a mephitic water apparatus in figure 9, "ill calculated for the purpose of impregnating water with carbonic acid," and an air furnace.
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus, Water, Hygrometers, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Plate 4: Various chemical apparatus and instruments
- 1824
Depicts an assortment of chemical apparatus and equipment, such as a levigating stone, air thermometer, granulating capsule, lamp furnaces, freezing apparatus, steam boiler, funnels, deflagrating jar, air jars, and…
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 3: Blowpipes; apparatus for producing phosphoric acid
- 1824
Depicts assorted blowpipes (self-adjusting candlestick; oxy-hydrogen), compound distillatory apparatus, furnace, and an apparatus for the production of phosphoric acid in figure 9.
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 2: Various chemical and pneumatic apparatuses
- 1824
Depicts a filtration bag, file, rasps, balance, self-acting blowpipe, siphon, pan, furnaces, alembics, and pneumatic troughs or cisterns.
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 1: Various chemical apparatus and instruments
- 1824
Depicts an assortment of chemical apparatus and equipment, including glass bottles, alembics, and flasks, as well as funnels, adopters, cupels, crucibles, muffles, blowpipes, eudiometers, syringes, siphons, spirit and…
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 17: Dr. Wollaston's Scale of Chemical Equivalents
- 1824
Depicts William Hyde Wollaston's Synoptic Scale of Chemical Equivalents from 1813, which is meant to give "the composiion of any weight whatever of any of the salts contained on the scale, the quantity of any other salt…
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Davies, Benjamin Rees
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Wollaston, William Hyde, 1766-1828
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Plate 16: Various chemical apparatus and instruments
- 1824
Depicts an assortment of chemical apparatus and equipment, including hoops, funnels, precipitating glasses, pans, pots, mortars and pestles, as well as cupellation and crucible furnaces, freezing apparatus, and…
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 15: Laboratory furnaces
- 1824
Depicts assorted furnaces (fixed universal; portable; reverberatory; wind; assay; air).
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus
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Plate 14: Calorimeter; pyrometer; reflectors; barometers
- 1824
Depicts a calorimeter, pyrometer, Pictet's reflectors for experiments with radiant heat in figure 10, and barometers.
- Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Engraver Adlard, Henry
- Publisher Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
- Subject Chemistry, Chemical apparatus