Historical Scientific Instruments

Engravings depicting various historical scientific tools and instruments used in surgery, chemistry, and textile production. Classic craftsmanship visible.

Horology, pl. I from 'A Cyclopaedia of Horology - Rees's Clocks Watches and Chronometers', Abraham Rees, 1743 - 1825, Engraving on paper, England, 1810-1842, Print, Print

Equilibrium of liquids: Hydrostatics and its applications, including Siphon (17), Bellows (paradoxical instrument) 8, Bramah's hydraulic press (19), Intermittent spring, Water reservoir, water level, etc. From educational plate published Wurtemberg c1850

Cheese cover, cheese waiter, etc. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896.

Calcination of raw material. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.

Mechanics: illustrations of levers, pulleys, wedges, and forces. Coloured engraving.

Physical Instruments, Nicolaas van Frankendaal, 1759 print Display of instruments for physical research, with numbers and letters. Print in the middle of it marked: Tom. I.3.ME Leçon. Pl. 1. Amsterdam paper etching physics (+ tools, instruments; laboratory equipment ~ scientific research)

Method of preparing and setting a Dynamite charge. From 'La Science Illustree', Paris, c. 1890

Plan and section of Tumulus at Tregascal with Sepulchral Urn. Dated 19th Century

Plate showing eighteenth-century surgical instruments. Engraving from Denis Diderot, Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, L'Encyclopedie, 1751-1757. Entitled Chirurgie (Surgery).

Perron's photographic camera. Old illustration by Louis Poyet (1846-1913) from La Nature 1887

Chemistry: weighing apparatus (top), evacuated ? glass bulb for combustion with sunlight (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.

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Man who sives flour with a bump, Frans de Bakker, 1747 print Print from a series with performances of different crafts. Amsterdam paper etching handicrafts ~ production of food, drink, stimulants, etc.

Clocks: diagrams of water-clocks. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

The 'Unique' Basin Waste, 1888, by J.L. Mott Iron Works. Issued in New York, this catalog features plumbing equipment and supplies, including plumbing fixtures, illustrated with wood engravings

Surgical instruments: seven lancets etc. Pen and ink drawing, 1850/1910

Surgery: an assortment of surgical instruments, including a chisel, a spatula, tweezers and scalpels. Engraving with etching by Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.

The 'Inodoro' embossed, ivory-tinted, or white porcelain. Plate 928-G ; Plate 929-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles dans les plantes, Göttingen, E. Luzac, fils, 1754, leaves, osmosis, Woods Hole, The illustration presents various scientific apparatuses and devices. At the top, there is a detailed depiction of an experimental setup with labeled parts, showcasing a mechanism involving a pendulum-like structure supported by a framework. Below, multiple figures display intricate diagrams of different components, with annotations indicating their functions and relationships. The designs feature lines and curves that suggest motion or connection, underscoring the experimental nature of the equipment. Additionally, a wooden box is illustrated, hinting at its role in the experiment, while surrounding elements suggest a background related to the scientific exploration of the time.

Mining: cross sections of mines; convoy of diamond miners and overseers, Brazil.. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Prints, Illustrations. 1858. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Art, Industrial arts, Mining, Diamond miners , Brazil

Ink drawing in bister by an anonymous artist showing Dürer's ellipsograph, with reddish tones, emphasizing form and design, late 16th century.

Mott's patent combination needle, shower, descending douche, liver spray and bidet bath. Plate 828-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

A woodcut engraving depicting Bradford's hydrostatic instrument for measuring the specific gravity and therefore the purity, of a coin. Dated 18th century

Plate showing acetylene lamps used for automobiles and a portable light. A Carbide lamp, or acetylene gas lamps, are simple lamps that produce and burn acetylene (C2H2) which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC2) with water. Dated 19th century

Plate 12, Tratado instructivo, y práctico, sobre el arte de la tintura: reglas experimentadas y metódicas para tintar sedas, lanas, hilos de todas clases, y esparto en rama, Fernández, Luis, Engraving, 1778

transport/transportation avitation balloon view and filling of a gas balloon Meyers Encyclopdia headword ""aeronautics"" steel engraving Schweinfurt circa 1840 private collection,

Equilibrium of solids: educational plate published Wurtemberg c.1850. Principles of Lever, Pulley, Inclined Plane

Johannes Scultetus, Armamentarium chirurgicum

Lamp for probably heliogravures, E. Chagniard, c. 1922 - In or Before 1932 photomechanical print paper electric lamp. photographic apparatus

Astronomical clock & spring governor - Bond & Sons, Boston, Mass, opp. p. 23. Illustrations, Prints. 1852. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Astronomical instruments, Astronomical clocks

Mott's folding lavatories. Plate 1053-G, Plate 1054-G, Plate 479-G and Plate 478-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Surgery: surgical instruments, including a bandage for the tongue. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.

Surgical chairs with patients held in place for a bladder stone operation through the groin, Plate 12. Surgical instruments including dilators 1-3, curette 6 and hook curette 7, Plate 11. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779.

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

Roman instruments of martyrdom. Etching by G.M. Cassini.

Lamp for probably heliogravures, E. Chagniard (Possibly), c. 1922 - In or Before 1932 photomechanical print paper electric lamp. photographic apparatus

Mott's standard bidets. Plate 1098-G, Plate 390-G, Plate 392-G and Plate 391-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Plate showing a calender machine. Engraving from Denis Diderot, Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, L'Encyclopedie, 1751-1757. Entitled Soierie (Silk Manufacture).

Four astronomical symptoms in the year 1736, 1736 print Leaf with four performances of astronomical symptoms in the year 1736. At the top of the first figure of the track of the planet Mercury around the sun. Second figure: The phases of the lunar eclipse on March 26. Third figure: the phases of the lunar eclipse on 19-20 September. Fourth figure: solar eclipse of 4 October. Stuck to the plate is a text sheet with text with an explanation about the events by Simon Panser, city wennel in Emden. print maker: Northern NetherlandsEmden paper etching / engraving Mercury (planet). solar eclipse. eclipse of the moon Moon

Baron von Drais's bicycle (Draisienne). Exhibited Paris 1818. Woodcut from 'Mechanics' Magazine', London, September, 1832.

Swift & Son's new patent microscope.

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

A labelled plan and two sections through a London porter brewery. Engraving by J. Moffat, c. 1830, after J. Farey.

The Hygeia all-porcelain urinal. Plate 1094-G. Sectional view. Plate 1095-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Studies of elements of armament. Czachórski, Władysław (1850-1911), draughtsman, cartoonist

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris: part of the cabinet of natural and artificial curiosities. Engraving by F. Ertinger, 1688.

Wheat threshing by horse, by hand-powered machine, and by mill. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Augsburg, 1811. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a clergyman and naturalist in Augsburg, Bavaria.

Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office. Many of the wild and wacky inventions submitted to the Patent Office, including: Fly Flickers, Horn buffers for Cattle, Mosquito-avoiding umbrella, a four-wheeled vehicle 'pushed' by a horse, pinze-nez-style spectacles, a metal bar to prevent brooding hens from sitting, dog whip with handle to contain powder to stop quarrelling mutts and (of course!) manned torpedoes fired from a single operator submersible vessel. Date: 1921

The 'Undine' All-Porcelain, 1888, J.L. Mott Iron Works, New York. Publisher, J.L. Mott Iron Works. Plumbing, Equipment and supplies, Catalogs, Toilets, Wood engravings

An engraving depicting various stages of silk manufacturing in China from 1745 to 1747. It includes scenes of winding silk from cocoons in a cauldron, using a balneum Maria to kill worms in the cocoons, removing cocoons from mats after being placed in earthen pots, and winding silk from cocoons in copper vessels with warm water. Also illustrated are methods of winding silk and sheets of paper hanging with eggs on them. Published in London by T. Astley

A party billiards; Munchener plates. Leaf with 12 performances over a cricket and a beetle playing a billiard game. Numbered in the middle of: Nro. 134. Numbered at the top right: 134.

'Table of elements of matter' Listing metallic and non- metallic elements, and including various pieces of apparatus.

Method of cutting paper material in China (after a Chinese illustration). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1867-1868.

Porcelain-lined French bath with supply fittings and unique waste. Plate 33-G. Porcelain-lined French bath with supply fittings (improved valves) and unique waste. Plate 34-G. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , Catalogs

Distance Of Sun To Earth; Size Of Moon Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519 Italian) Drawing

Surgical instruments: a variety of forceps, drills and scissors, with demonstrational figures. Etching by R.W., 1687.

Astronomy: a mechanism for a model of the motion of a comet. Engraving after B. Martin.

Silk from silk moth (Bombyx) to finished product. Central panel shows lifecycle of moth from egg to adult. Surrounding vignettes show trading in and uses of silk, including at bottom left caravan of laden camels . From 'Graphic Illustrations of Animals, Showing Their Utility to Man' London c1850. Hand-coloured lithograph

Gears, from the Codex Ashburnham 361, by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), folio 44 verso.

Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.

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.Olika Headlight Lamps.

Optics: a simple microscope. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1820.

Solar, Ancient Clock made of metal Located in Herculaneum in Naples (table 15) in the album: manual of various ornaments traits from febrics, and ancient fragments for use as commodo work collected, designed and inciske by Carlo Antonini, Rome 1790 Antonini, Carlo (1749 1835)

Early recording devices: top: recording diaphragm and stylus, bottom: reproducing apparatus, May, 1888.

Geometry ITALY - CIRCA 1940: Vintage illustration of geometry, circa 1940 in Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ClaudioxDiviziax 1743801

Luik, Gordinne, Maurel, Jules, A rat in the moon, verso - stamped, Sheet with 9 images about two naughty boys who put a rat in a telescope. A man who looks through it at the moon thinks there is life on the moon. A caption under each image. Numbered top right: No 137., print, popular print, popular prints, prints, height 399 mm, width 271 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1894 - 1959, paper, color lithography (process), letterpress printing, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Minerals and crystals including aragonite, dolomite, anhydrite, apatite and fluorite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschichte," Schreiber, Munich, 1886.

Advertisement for Clarke's "Fairy" combination lamp, an aid to the treatment of influenza and bronchitis Date: 1892

Brunton's "Mechanical Traveller," 1813. Illustrations. 1830. Rare Book Division. Steam-engines

The Mensinga Occulsive cap Date: 1905

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

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