Instruments & Innovation

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…

Figure 39. Mercurial Troughs, iron, very superior with Pepy's Gasometer attached.
Figure 40. Palmer's Gas Lamp for heating tubes, which screws on to a common gas pillar.
Figure 41. Palmer's Chemical Amusement and…

Figure 28. Lamps, Berzelius's portable Blowpipe.
Figure 29. Lamp, Cooper's for heating Tubes.
Figure 30. Lamp, Davy's Safety.
Figure 31. Lamp, Farraday's, with four wicks, as recommended in his chemical manipulations.…

Figure 7. Blowpipe, self-acting Spirit for bending glass tubes, Tin.
Figure 8. Blowpipe, self-acting in brass with sliding Lamp.
Figure 9. Blowpipe, Glassblower's Table, with double bellows, jets, lamp, and stand,…

Figure 58. Best Wheel Barometer with Thermometer & Spirit Level, plain mounted.
Figure 59. Best Wheel Barometer with screw Hygrometer, rosewood inlaid with pearl and German silver fittings, very elegant.
Figure 60. Upri…

Figure 50. Retort Stand large, brass, with tubulated retort, receiver.
Figure 51. Scales, Chemical, with decimal weights to the tenth of a grain, brass pans, warranted to weigh accurately to the tenth of a grain.

These…

Kazimierz Siemienowicz's treatise was used for over a century as a basic manual on artillery, rocketry, and pyrotechnics. It was originally published in Latin (1650) and was translated into French (1651), German (1676),…

Le diverse et artificiose machine belongs to a new genre that emerged in the late 16th century, the "theatre of machines," which offered original mechanical solutions to the problems of everyday life. Ramelli's book…