Instruments & Innovation

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 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 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 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 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.

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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…

Illustration depicting the manufacture of plate glass, a form of glass traditionally made by casting and rolling and characterized by its excellent surface produced by grinding and polishing.

Illustration of an apparatus used to manufacture soda water.

Illustration depicting the manufacture of seltzer or soda water by use of a wheel to force gas into bottled water.

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…

Depicts assorted furnaces (fixed universal; portable; reverberatory; wind; assay; air).

Depicts a calorimeter, pyrometer, Pictet's reflectors for experiments with radiant heat in figure 10, and barometers.

Depicts assorted thermometers (differential and mercurial), photometers in figures 3 and 5, steam baths for a lamp furnace in figure 7, and a vertical compound distillatory apparatus in figure 8.

Depicts assorted gasometers (common and mercurial), as well as glass globes and receivers, precipitating jars, and air and gas funnels, holders, and bladders.

Depicts a metallic still in figure 1, compound distillatory apparatuses, cast iron bottle and tube, air jar, and an oxy-hydrogen blowpipe in figure 10.

Depicts crucible and blast furnaces, thermometers, eudiometer, blowpipe spoon, and an apparatus for decomposing alkaline metals in figure 5.

Depicts assorted bottles (cast iron; gas; with various necks), adopters, pelican, matrass, air jars, compound distillatory apparatus, balloon receivers, and conducting tubes.

Depicts casting molds and cones, cupel and crucible tongs, an anvil in figure 10, and an atmometer in figure 14.

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…

Depicts assorted blowpipes (self-adjusting candlestick; oxy-hydrogen), compound distillatory apparatus, furnace, and an apparatus for the production of phosphoric acid in figure 9.

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…

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…

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.