Instruments & Innovation

889 items

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 Language English ✖ Subject Chemical laboratories--Equipment and supplies ✖

Catalogs, Rare books, Engravings, Illustrations

Figures 20-23. Furnace Stoves, For Experimental Purposes, Made to Order
- Part of Palmer's New Catalogue, with Three Hundred Engravings of Apparatus, Illustrative of Chemistry, Pneumatics, Frictional and Voltaic Electricity, Electro Magnetism, Optics, &c.
- 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…
- Author Palmer, Edward, 1803-1872
- Printer Gilbert, William
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Commercial catalogs, Chemical apparatus, Furnaces, Chemical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Gas cylinders
Catalogs

Microscopes "The Worker" and "The Prize"
- Part of Catalogue of Chemical and Physical Apparatus and Chemicals
- 1889
- Creator Of Work Philip Harris and Co.
- Publisher Wright, Dain, Peyton, and Co.
- Subject Chemical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Microscopes, Chemical apparatus
Catalogs

Harris's Universal Microscope
- Part of Catalogue of Chemical and Physical Apparatus and Chemicals
- 1889
- Creator Of Work Philip Harris and Co.
- Publisher Wright, Dain, Peyton, and Co.
- Subject Chemical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Microscopes, Chemical apparatus
Catalogs, Handbooks and manuals

McKenna mechanically operated agate mortar and pestle
- Part of The Design and Equipment of Small Chemical Laboratories
- 1908
- Creator Of Work Meade, Richard K. (Richard Kidder), 1874-
- Publisher The Chemical Engineer Publishing Co.
- Subject Chemical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Chemical laboratories
Catalogs, Handbooks and manuals

Automatic water stills
- Part of The Design and Equipment of Small Chemical Laboratories
- 1908
- Creator Of Work Meade, Richard K. (Richard Kidder), 1874-
- Publisher The Chemical Engineer Publishing Co.
- Subject Chemical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Chemical laboratories

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