Science & Technology - The Print Gallery

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Scientific Instruments: Portable Astronomical Observatory.

Oxford Astronomical Observatory: Interior with globe, telescopes and other scientific instruments.

Allegory with a Philospher on a Sand-bath furnance performing chemical analysis whilst a student melts a diamond with the suns rays through a lens, with Chemistry with a coronet on her head and a globe in hand.

Diving Bells: 1. Halley’s, 2. Triewald’s and 3. Spalding’s bells . 4. Klingert’s Armour and 5. Air cylinder.

Periodic Chart of Atoms: Henry Hubbard’s chart listing the 98 known elements. With booklet

Anoplotherium. Lateral skeletal view of the Llama-like animal with details of the jaw.

Allegory with Therra Goddess of the Earth and Tethys Goddess of the Sea, dividing the globe into Europe, Asia, Africa and America.

Comparative chart of the earth’s geology.

Ballooning: Balloons and the methods of constructing and filling with instruments for accelerating and braking.

Hydostatics: Pressure and equilibrium of liquids.

Allegory of Urania with an Astrolobe and Scroll with Architecture attended by Reason carrying Pallas’s shield and Mercury’s caduceus.

Great Mastodon. Full skeleton.

Paraselene (Mock Moon): Terra Nova Expedition 1910-13.

Geology and Palaeontology: With key to animal types and earth crust layers.

Husbandry: Mr Walley’s new invented hammer.

Arctic Zone: Educational chart showing the frigid mountainous environment, animals and inhabitants of polar regions.

Refining and Distilling Plant. No 3.

‘Galvanic Electricity’: Sir William Robert Grove QC, a pioneer of fuel cell technology. SPY.

Crampton’s Locomotive Engine.

Zincum carbonatum. Carbonate of zinc from the Matlock, Rutland mine.

Oil Wells on the Beach. No 1.

Vertical distribution of climate of different mountains, and snow at different altitudes.

Copper from Hungary1, 2, Cornwall 3, 4, 5, Japan 6, Hepatic copper 7, Black vitrreous ore 8, Bue copper 9 Malachite 10 Copper in quartz 11, Copper pyrites 12, Yellow copper C fulvum

Chemistry: Gazometer, De Vigne’s saturator and a Mercury freezer.

Lunar Corona: Terra Nova Expedition 1910-13.

Cuprum sulphureum. Blistered sulphuret of Copper from the Cook’s Kitchen mine, Cornwall.

Long Distance transport via Pipelines. No 2.

Stereographic Projection with Churchman’s New Projection for Mountainous Countries: Diagrams illustrating the use of contour lines to map elevation and underwater depths.

Ballooning: Montgolfier, Blanchard, Charles & Roberts and Lunardis balloons: With view over Chester from a balloon.

Tropical Zone: Educational chart showing the flora, fauna, and inhabitants of a tropical environment.

Cuprum phosphatum. Copper phosphate from Cornwall

Aeroplanes and Air Ships: at St. Paul’s and Alexandra Palace Expedition with sketches of types of crafts.

Megatherium. Lateral skeletal view of the prehistoric elephant-sized sloth.

Chemistry: Crucibles 1-3, Cucurbits 4-5, Retorts 6-7, Receiver 8-14, Alembicon 15, Still 16-17 Furnace 18-20.

Plubum sulphatum crystallizatum. Crystalilized Sulphate of Lead from Anglesea.

Hogarth: John Wilkes Esq. 1800. An original antique copper engraving. 9" x 13". [MISCp2983]

Geography: Copernican and Ptolemaic armillary spheres with terrestrial and celestial globes on matching stands with compasses.

Mechanical properties of Air (2-4), Laws of Air (5-7), Barometer (8-9, 1), Air Pump 10-11) Air Condenser (12-14), Air Ballon (15), Diving Ball (16) With key.

Silex steatites. Red and green serpentine from Lizard point, Cornwall.

Carbo oxygenizatus. Oxygenized Carbon from Denbigh.

Extention, Impenetrability, Divisibility, Porosity, Inertia, Cohesion, Gravity (1-16), Gravity (17-26), Pendulum (27-30), Forces (31-37), Laws of Motion (38-39). With Key.

Filling and Expediting of Barrels. No 5.

Nature in Descending Regions: Comparative chart of the World’s oceans and the different species that live within them.

Allegory with the Goddess of Minerology seated on a throne with gryphons, guardias of tresure attended by Cybele (Earth) and Vulcan (Fire), with Apollo (Gold and Topaz), Diana (Silver and Selenites) Saturn (Diamond) Jyupiter (Tin and Saphire), Mars Iron and Ruby), Mercury (Quicksilver and Ametyst) and Venus (Copper and Emerald) Gnomes classify in the foreground with scales and sceptre of touchstone.

Cuprum subsulphureum. Vitreous copper ore from Cornwall.

Phenomena of the Atmosphere: With key to 24 types.

Dirigible balloon ‘Patrie’. Diagram of parts with explanation in French.

Machine Age: View of the Industrial Metropolis. World’s Fair.

Windmill: Common windmill, windmill sails, Horizontal windmill and Rostill’s family mill and boiler.

Nature in Ascending Regions: Comparative chart of the mountains, volcanoes and accomplished summits across the world.

Carbo Bitumen. Viscous Bitumen from Castletown, Isle of Man.

Comparative view of buildings by height including the Pyramid of Cheops, St Peters, St Pauls with key. Framed.

Telescope: Sir William Herschel’s Grand Reflecting Telescope.

Temperate Zone: Educational chart showing the environment and townscapes of a temperate zone.

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Uranium oxygenizatum. Oxide of Uranium frm the Tolcairn mine, Cornwall.

Finished Petrol pumped at the Station. No 6.

Atlantic Type Engine: North British Railway.

Waterfalls, Islands, Lakes, Rivers and Mountains in the Western Hemisphere: An infographic chart of natural features of the western hemisphere.

Barytes sulphata. Sulphate of barytes from Surrey.

Scientific Instruments: Planeterium Tellurium and Lunarium with Rowley’s Orrery.

Allegory with Archimedes surrounded by pupils with one drawing proportionally the sphere to cylindar. Right are Screw and Wedge, above the Balance, system of pulleys,. To the left a globe, hydrostatical bellows, and Archimede’s screw or pump, the inclined plane with a crane at back.

Infographic illustration of areas of geological interest.

Lead. Native lead 1-6, 8, German lead 7, Saxon lead 9, Napolitan lead 10, 11, Lorraine lead 12, Engraved by John Pass.

Bristol Brabazon: View of the plane under construction with a half scale model as comparison. After Roland Davies.

Modern Express Engine. London and North-Western Railway.

Scientific Instruments: Hadley’s Sextant with Adam’s quadrant, Bird’s Quadrant and Mural Telescope Quadrant.

Armillary sphere (used to simulate the orbits of the heavenly bodies): With, a Terrestrial globe, and a Celestial globe.

Tin. Spathose Tin 1,2, Wood Tin from Cornwall 3-7. Tooth Tin 8-11, Saxon Tin 12, Garnet Tin 13,, 14, Tin in shorl 15, Crystalised Tin 16, 17. Engraved by John Pass.

Characters of the Ten Elements and Twelve Celestial Signs: Combined in the luni-solar calendar of sixty years.

Wilkes: Telescopes. 1810. An original hand coloured antique copper engraving. 8" x 11". [SCIp115]

Whiskey Distillation Stills: Flat Scotch, Danish, Rectifying, and portable still for compound waters.

Ferrum phosphatum. Iron phosphate and Iron carbonate from Huel Kine, Cornwall.

Gold from Hungary 1, 2, Dentrical silver 3,4,6, Varigated ore 5, Vitreous ore. Engraved by John Pass.

Quartzum var. aggregatum. Quartzose Pudding Stone from Hertfordshire and Essex.

Fire Engine: Bramah’s improved patent fire engine.

Allegory of Prismatical colour as seven women. Generative and primitive elements wear a crown and mantle, with ray of yellow red or blue only, the other figures composites. Each holding a flower of their colour: jonquil – yellow, gren bough – vert, marigold – orange, blue bell – blue, corn poppy – red, blue bottle – indigo and a violet. Optical instruments in the corner and above in Hebrew ‘God said let there be Light, and there was Light’.

Mastadon Giganticus: Lateral skeletal view of the prehistoric elephant.

Distillation: Double Apparatus of distillation.

Barometers: 1. Torricelli 2,3 Huygens 4 Barnoulli’s Horizontal 5. Morland Diagonal, 6 Hook’s Wheel 7 Steelyard 8 Amonton’s Pendant 9 Rowning’s Compound 10 Casswell’s Barascope 11, 12 Ramsden’s Portable 13 Thermometer and Hygrometer.