Historical Physics Apparatus

Illustrations of historic scientific instruments, including levers, looms, and dyeing equipment, showcasing mechanical engineering and early physics experiments.

pl. V, Dying silk, pl. V The art of dying wool, silk, and cotton, Hellot, Jean, 1685-1766, Engraving, 1789

Combination tubular and ring shower. Plate 1024-G ; Combination shower and descending douche. Plate 1025-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

The Patisserie or pastry cook for game pies and other dishes from Recueil de planches sur les sciences et les arts liberaux Livorno 1776, reproduced from from EncyclopÄdie ou Dictionnaire raisonnÄ des sciences, des arts et des mÄtiers, 1751-51, edited by Denis Diderot, Paris

The 'Trent' closet. Plate 969-G ; Plate 970-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Steam trap with float and valve, produced by Lancaster & Tonge, Pendleton, United Kingdom, illustration from L'Industria, Rivista tecnica ed economica illustrata, Milan, 1901.

Sectional view of the electrical furnace used by Henri Moissan to produce artificial diamonds by compressing pure sugar charcoal in a cylinder of soft iron with a soft iron plug. Henri Moissan (1852-1907) a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Dated 19th century

Drawing for a Washing Machine

Pneumatics: three kinds of air pump, including (lower right) Cuthbertson's design. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1796.

Steam engine, on the principle of Thomas Newcomen, as constructed by John Smeaton, 19th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after an Illustration by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' "Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary," London, 1812.

Plate Illustrating Fanmaking from Diderot's 'Encyclopédie', Denis Diderot, French, 1713-1784, Engraving on paper, Plate illustrating fan manufacture from Diderot's 'Encyclopédie.', France, 1751-1766, Drawing, Drawing

Textiles: silk spinning (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.

Cartoon at Minister F.A. Van Hall, 1860. Cartoon at the Finance Minister F.A. Van Hall as a magician standing behind a table. Plate appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 49, 8 December 1860.

Electricity: electrical equipment, batteries, etc. Coloured engraving, 1804, by J. Pass, after H. Lascelles.

Cartoon at the music competition in Lille, 1829; L'Astrologue du Festival / Résumé des Gammes. Cartoon at the music competition held in Lille on June 30, 1829. A magician on a stellage tilt a cup, including a statue of Victoria for Ghent, under the cup on the right a donkey with enormous long ears. In the middle the opened box of Pandora from which soap bubbles take off. Disagreement arose whether the Association St. Caecilia from Ghent or the Harmony of Brussels held the first prize on the music competition had won in Lille.

Plate showing stages of creation of the glass. Engraving from Denis Diderot, Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, L'Encyclopedie, 1751-1757. Entitled Verrerie en bois (Forest Glass Making).

Furnaces and instruments for preparing varnish, Le vernisseur parfait, ou, Manuel du vernisseur, Delagardette, Pierre Claude, 1743-1782, Delormois, M., 18th cent., Engraving, black-and-white, 1771

Nollet experiments with the generation of electricity by flowing water: the clock is serving as a stop-watch to time the experiment. Date: 1754

Clocks: the mechanism of a large clock. Engraving, c.1861.

An engraving depicting Baron von Kemplen's chess-playing Turk who is reputed never to have lost a game. This print shows how a figure seated in the cabinet is supposed to have operated the model. Dated 19th century

Mott's combination needle and shower bath. Plate 63 1/2 -G ; Needle and shower bath. Plate 1017-G. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

A man who has swallowed petroleum asks a chemist for a remedy; the chemist shows hims several bottles and lets him chose the one he prefers. Etching, ca. 1880.

Model of a house pump, F.W. Funckler, c. 1857 - in or before 1867 photograph Netherlands photographic support albumen print physics (+ tools, instruments; laboratory equipment ~ scientific research)

The 'Inodoro' ivory-tinted or white porcelain. Plate 930-G. The 'Inodoro' white or ivory-tinted porcelain. Plate 99-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Engraving depicting a walking stick camera. A band of film passes round the pulley (b) which is turned by a button (f). To take a picture the cap in front of the lens (q) is opened and the exposure is made by pressing the knob (p). Dated 19th Century

Image of a page with a drawing of a snake in a glass jar that played a role in the opera Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber, performed on March 25, 1861 in the Utrechtse Schouwburg.

Types of greenhouse. Engraving, 1751.

Fig. CXLIII. Cochlea duplex, cum pondere. Antlia duplex, per pondus versatilis.. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Water pumps, Gearing

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH; Including Cooke and Wheatstone single and double needle instruments (Figs 4 & 5). Sounder (Fig 7) for Morse telegraph which enabled signal to be 'read' aurally; dispersing with taped messages. Wheatstone's Alphabetical Telegraph (Fig 9). Combination Printing Telegraph (Fig 10) in which A.A. Lovett brought together the best features of the House and Hughes telegraphs: 1859.

Fig. LXXV. Elæomylos, sive olearia.. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Gearing, Stamping mills

Methods of relieving shortness of breath in cases of chronic bronchitis: Siegles steam spray inhaler and an atomiser which used one part ipecacuanha and two parts water. Engraving, 1895.

The 'Indestructible' basin faucet. Pl. 1092-G, Pl. 1091-G. 'English low-down' compression basin faucet. Pl. 1132-G, Pl. 1041-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Water velocipede. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

Electrical machines: four figures showing various machines, with an illustration of George Adams demonstrating his medical electrical machine on a girl. Line engraving by J. Lodge and W. Grainger, after T. Milne and F. Blake, 1789.

Mott's Lenox double oven portable french range. Plate 8-B.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Fig. XXCI. Veruvertebra, per calorem. Trochotechnema.. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Gearing, Roasting (Cookery)

Groma, Aligning Instrument Used By the Ancient Romans. Original caption: The Groma. From Del Catasto Romano E Di Alcuni Strumenti Antichi Di Geodesia by E. N. Legnazzi. Set of 66 - No. 25.

Telescope on tripod, anonymous, c. 1870 - in or before 1875 photograph photographic support telescope

Man who makes a photomechanical print and retouches, anonymous, c. 1922 - In or Before 1932 photomechanical print paper photographic apparatus. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph

Diving bell with two divers on board, circa 1820. An improved version of Edmond Halley's diving bell, this hermetically sealed diving chamber was supplied by air through a copper pipe from the surface. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823.

Four images and two reproductions of designs of trees that grow in various forms against fencing, from the École national superior d'Horticulture in Versailles, France, Anonymous, c. 1895 - in or before c. 1900 photomechanical print Versailles paper collotype horticulture, vegetable culture, market gardening. trees National Horticulture School

Sausage Grinder. Dated: 1936. Dimensions: overall: 28 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: J. Howard Iams.

Mott's patent wash-out Grecian vase water closet. Pl. 1122-G, Pl. 876-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

The 'Hygeia,' All-Porcelain, 1888, J.L. Mott Iron Works, New York. Publisher, J. L. Mott Iron Works. Includes plumbing, equipment, supplies, catalogs, toilets, and wood engravings., 1888

Mott's patent Grecian vase water closet. Pl. 961-G, Pl. 1130-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Microscope binoculaire stéréoscopique, fig. 5. Moitessier, A. (Albert), 1833-1889. Illustrations. 1866. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Microscopes

Marsh Test Apparatus, Steel engraving, 1867

Fig. CXII. Antlia duplex.. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Water pumps

Acoustics: an Edison wax cylinder recorder. Wood engraving.

Swift & Son's new patent microscope. Front page of catalogue

Making a deep Sevres dish by moulding layer upon layer of clay. Engraving, Paris, c1870.

Device for presumably photomechanical reproductions, anonymous, c. 1922 - In or Before 1932 photomechanical print paper photographic apparatus

Mott's 'Star' 1889 furnace. Portable, with galvanized iron castings. Plate 25.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Sellier-Carossier, pl. VI from 'Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers', Engraving on paper, France, 1771, Print, Print

Anatomical instruments on a table used for vivisection. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.

THE BRAZILIAN SILK WORM EXHIBIT, PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITION, 1.í(a) The Moth laying Eggs ; (b) Silk-worm one day old ; (c) Silk-worm three days old ; (d) Silk-worm seven days old. 2 íSilk-worm Spinning a Cocoon. 3.íCocoons. 4.íChrysalis. 5.íMoths emerging, ENGRAVING 1876, US, USA, America, United States

Albert Samama looks at a skeleton with an X -ray set, Albert Samama (Possibly), c. 1895 - in Or Before 1898 photomechanical print Tunis paper X-ray examination. (human) skeleton. photographer at work

Distillation equipment and a horse. Three performances on a leaf. Above distillation equipment and under a horse.

A man performing exercises in a frame with weights and pulleys. Lithograph by E. Parry & Co.

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.TextBord from Pathé and Ernemann-Werke respectively.

Electric egg, F.W. Funckler, c. 1857 - in or before 1867 photograph Netherlands photographic support albumen print physics (+ tools, instruments; laboratory equipment ~ scientific research)

Chinese musical instruments, Qing Dynasty: iron Hien-pan 1, bronze vase 2, drum, wooden percussion instrument in the shape of a fish 4, and Bong-gui 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824.

Alcoholic beverages : plants and distillation; vinegar manufacture. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Vinegar industry, Beverage industry

Benjamin Franklin's conducting his lightning experiments from an insulated hut in Philadelphia. Date: September 1752

Tyler's photo-micrographic camera, for photographing microscopic subjects Date: 1892

Frankis Evans' Nasal Nitrous Oxide apparatus : (lower) Trewby's apparatus This catalogue contains 2000 pages of medical equipment Date: 1930

(above) Bowles' stethoscope (below) Haydn Brown's Binaural Stethoscope This catalogue contains 2000 pages of medical equipment Date: 1930

Clocks: James Cox's "perpetual motion" self-winding clock. Engraving by J. Lodge, 1774.

Equilibrium and the movement of the air: educational plate published Wurtemberg c.1850. Height of air, Depth of ocean. Ballooning, Diving, Vacuum, Barometer, Air Pump, Diving Bell, Syringe, Air gun.

Turner am Barren. .

The MATTAUPHONE of M. Mattau of Brussels is simply his version of the 'glass harmonica' in which glasses are filled with liquid to varying depths, then struck. Date: 1850s

Charcot's therapeutic vibrator. Date: 27th August 1892

William's Improved Portable Tent, Industrial America - Invention

Cylindrus, Cymbalistria. Original caption: From " A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities" by Anthony Rich. London, 1901 Copy 2. P. 231.

LUMIERE'S CINEMATOGRAPH : a contemporary depiction of the French device which has the best claim to be the world's first practical film projector Date: 1896

The "Burroughs" ammonia inhaler from Medical Formulae, 1881

1880 article and cartoon about the Hessian Fly (Cecidomyia destructor), the larva of which is very destructive of wheat. Wrongly thought to have been taken to America by Hessian troops during War of Independence, hence its name.

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