Color plate illustrates the composition of salts including the structure of acids and salts as well as the salts of phosphoric acid.

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Color plate illustrates metals and their compounds with oxygen. Includes oxygen, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, silicon, aluminum, iron, and manganese.

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Color plate illustrates the compounds of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, sulphur, chlorine, and phosphorus.

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Publication providing an overview of the basic principles of chemistry with regards to non-metallic elements. Includes engravings, experiments, an appendix containing tables and supply lists, and an index. Part of a…

Plate illustrates tree trunks discovered in coal mines. With coal originating from decayed vegetation, coal samples can include remnants of tree trunks, branches, leaves, and fruit.

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Color plate depicts a torpedo boat attacking a large war vessel. Accompanying text mentions how a quick-moving torpedo boat can position the torpedo device in close proximity of the enemy war ship and withdrawal in time…

Plate illustrates a dynamite manufacturing establishment near Turin, Italy. Dynamite was used to form the Fréjus Rail Tunnel in Mont Cenis, which is in close proximity to Turin, Italy. Dating back to 1871, this tunnel…

Color plate illustrates a fireworks display held over the Seine river in Paris, France. Different chemical substances produce different colors when ignited, resulting in colorful fireworks displays.

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Plate illustrates the Tuscan landscape after the establishment of the borax industry. Boric acid is collected from Tuscan lagoons via masonry structures as seen in the illustration.

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Plate illustrates the Tuscan landscape before the introduction of the borax industry. The foreground depicts Tuscan lagoons, where borax was found circa 1776. Steam charged with boron compounds escapes volcanic crevices…

Color plate illustrates the process of manufacturing sulfuric acid. Sulfur is burned in an air current, forming sulfur dioxide which oxidizes into sulfur trioxide. Then water is introduced, producing sulfuric acid.…

Color plate illustrates the process of refining sulfur. As seen on the left side of the illustration, crude sulfur is heated over a coal fire which produces a sulfur vapor. This vapor passes into a stone or brick…

Color plate depicts arctic explorers using dynamite to open a channel through ice. The explorers stand on the ice holding ice picks. An explosion occurs on the horizon with a masted ship seen in the distance.

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Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), who was an English clergyman and natural philosopher who discovered oxygen.

This plate is from John Howard Appleton's (1844-1930) Chemistry, Developed by Facts and Principles…

Color plate depicts a photographer working in a darkroom. He holds a glass plate, presumably a negative, over a processing tub. The surrounding walls contain various glass vessels. The explanatory text states how the…

Color plate illustrates an early method of bleaching cotton and linen goods on lawns. Two women stand amongst a vast landscape holding watering cans over strips of white cloth. Decorative frame is bordered by foliage…

Plate depicts the interior of a factory where the bleaching of pulp is being undertaken for the manufacturing of paper. Two workers stand amongst vats of bleach and machinery.

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Half-length portrait print of Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829). Davy was an English chemist and inventor who invented the field of electrochemistry. He is best known for his work isolating numerous elements using…

Color plate depicts a man operating a magic lantern, specifically the Duboscq Megascope, to discern microscopic dispatches delivered in Paris by carrier pigeons. Homing pigeons were utilized for communication during the…

On August 24, 1804, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean-Baptiste Biot ascended in a hot air balloon to a height of 4,000 meters altitude in order to conduct scientific experiments on gases. These experiments led to…

Portrait print of John Dalton (1766-1844) seated at a table with his hand at his temple.

Widely known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, Dalton was a noted English meteorologist and chemist. His research…

Portrait print of Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848) seated at a table with regalia pins on his jacket.

Considered one of the founders of modern chemistry and known as the "Father of Swedish Chemistry," he is best…

Authored by American scientific writer, editor and lecturer Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887). Popularizing science, Youmans founded Popular Science magazine. Digitized in entirety, this textbook uses color…

This is the first published periodic table of elements in its modern form with the elements of each group arranged vertically. Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834-1907) created this table for the second edition of his…

Figure 272 of the 1887 volume Popular Zoology depicting woodpeckers.

Designed to give students an understanding of the animal worlds, Popular Zoology describes and identifies the animals in two kingdoms of nature: the…