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This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

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Creator Elmsley, Peter, 1736-1802 ✖Remove constraint Creator: Elmsley, Peter, 1736-1802 Creator Keir, James, 1735-1820 ✖Remove constraint Creator: Keir, James, 1735-1820 Department Library ✖Remove constraint Department: Library Format Text ✖Remove constraint Format: Text Genre Rare books ✖Remove constraint Genre: Rare books

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    Plate I: Retorts, alembics, aludels, distillation apparatus, etc.

    • Part of A Dictionary of Chemistry, Vol. III
    • 1777
    • Author Macquer, Pierre Joseph, 1718-1784
    • Contributor Keir, James, 1735-1820
    • Engraver Westwood
    • Publisher Elmsley, Peter, 1736-1802, Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802
    • Subject Chemistry--Dictionaries, Chemical apparatus

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