Science & Technology - The Print Gallery

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

Geology: Calx carbonata var petrosa. Variegated limestone from Tirie, Scotland.

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

Carbo oxygenizatus. Oxygenized Carbon from Denbigh.

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

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

American Express Trains: Leaving the Junction.

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

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

Hydostatics: Pressure and equilibrium of liquids.

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

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

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

Great Mastodon. Full skeleton.

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

Geology: Cuprum hyperoxygenizatum. Hydrate of copper from the Daleshead mine Cumberland.

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.

Long Distance transport via Pipelines. No 2.

Infographic illustration of areas of geological interest.

Plumbum phosphatum. Lead phosphate from Leadhills, Lancashire.

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

Orville Wright experimenting with flight.

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

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

Calx carbonata. Crystallized lime carbonate from Matlock, Cornwall.

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

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.

Oil Wells on the Beach. No 1.

Filling and Expediting of Barrels. No 5.

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.

Mineralogy: Alcyonnium chonoides imbedded in flint and chalk with an alligator fossil.

Drilling machines. 1-4 Hand drill for pease, 5 Horse drawn drill-plough 6-8 Turnip Drills 9 Cook’s Common drill.

Wilkes: Nicolaus Copernicus. 1810. An original hand coloured antique copper engraving. 8" x 11". [SCIp120]SCIp128w

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

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

Crampton’s Locomotive Engine.

Mastadon Giganticus: Lateral skeletal view of the prehistoric elephant.

Cuprum phosphatum. Copper phosphate from Cornwall

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

Container ship in front of a refinery. No 4.

Phenomena of the Atmosphere: With key to 24 types.

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

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

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.

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

Refining and Distilling Plant. No 3.

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

Fire Engine: Bramah’s improved patent fire engine.

Cuprum subsulphureum. Vitreous copper ore from Cornwall.

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.

Diagrams of Dirigible aerostats or steerable balloons.

Red stillbite or zeolite from Hall Hill, Scotland.

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

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

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

Comparative chart of the earth’s geology.

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

Lunar Corona: Terra Nova Expedition 1910-13.

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.

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

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

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

Scientific Instruments: Portable Astronomical Observatory.

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

Mineralogy: Iron ore. 1 Granulated Iron 2 Iron globules 3 Haematites 4 Red Iron 5 Sparry Iron ore 6 Ochraceous Iron 7 Swedish Iron 8 Styria white Iron.

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’.

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

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

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

Atlantic Type Engine: North British Railway.

Telescope: Sir William Herschel’s Grand Reflecting Telescope.

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

Finished Petrol pumped at the Station. No 6.

Mineralogy: 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.