Instruments & Innovation

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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.

Start Over Format Text ✖ Place New York (State)--New York ✖ Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments ✖

Publications, Illustrations

Figure 20. Machine for Trimming Upright Mantles
- Part of The Rare Earth Industry: Including the Manufacture of Incandescent Mantles, Pyrophoric Alloys, and Electrical Glow Lamps
- 1915
Figure 20 from the 1915 volume The Rare Earth Industry depicting a machine for trimming upright mantles, a component of incandescent gas lanterns. The volume details various industrial applications of rare earths and…
- Author Johnstone, Sydney J. (Sydney James), Russell, Alexander S. (Alexander Smith), b. 1888
- Publisher D. Appleton and Company
- Subject Rare earths, Rare earth industry, Incandescent gas-lighting, Scientific illustration, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Lighting, Machinery
Publications, Illustrations

Figure 14. Impregnating Machine [Gas mantle manufacture]
- Part of The Rare Earth Industry: Including the Manufacture of Incandescent Mantles, Pyrophoric Alloys, and Electrical Glow Lamps
- 1915
Figure 14 from the 1915 volume, The Rare Earth Industry depicting a machine (1/10 actual size) for saturating cotton and ramie webs with a solution of rare earth metals during the manufacture of gas mantles. The volume…
- Author Johnstone, Sydney J. (Sydney James), Russell, Alexander S. (Alexander Smith), b. 1888
- Publisher D. Appleton and Company
- Subject Rare earths, Rare earth industry, Incandescent gas-lighting, Scientific illustration, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Machinery
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Catalogs, Rare books, Engravings

Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus, Chemicals and Pure Reagents
- 1846
- Creator Of Work Kent, Edward N.
- Printer Sackett, Israel, 1809-1880
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Chemicals, Chemical tests and reagents, Chemical apparatus

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Figure 20. Machine for Trimming Upright Mantles

Figure 14. Impregnating Machine [Gas mantle manufacture]

Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus, Chemicals and Pure Reagents