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Atlantic Type Engine: North British Railway.
Ballooning: Balloons and the methods of constructing and filling with instruments for accelerating and braking.
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.
Oil Wells on the Beach. No 1.
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
Silex Ichthyopthalmus. Icthyopthalmite, Fish’s eye stone.
Carbo Bitumen. Viscous Bitumen from Castletown, Isle of Man.
Orville Wright experimenting with flight.
Long Distance transport via Pipelines. No 2.
Characters of the Ten Elements and Twelve Celestial Signs: Combined in the luni-solar calendar of sixty years.
Moon: Gemini 9 launch photograph signed by NASA astronaut and commander of Gemini 9, Tom Stafford. Framed.
Plubum sulphatum crystallizatum. Crystalilized Sulphate of Lead from Anglesea.
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.
Nature in Ascending Regions: Comparative chart of the mountains, volcanoes and accomplished summits across the world.
Plumbum phosphatum. Lead phosphate from Leadhills, Lancashire.
Gold from Hungary 1, 2, Dentrical silver 3,4,6, Varigated ore 5, Vitreous ore. Engraved by John Pass.
Uranium oxygenizatum. Oxide of Uranium frm the Tolcairn mine, Cornwall.
Megatherium. Lateral skeletal view of the prehistoric elephant-sized sloth.
Oxford Astronomical Observatory: Interior with globe, telescopes and other scientific instruments.
![Wilkes: Sir Isaac Newton. 1820. An original antique stipple engraving. 8" x 11". [SCIp79]](https://i1.wp.com/prints.themaphouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/scip79w.jpg?w=438&h=593&ssl=1 "Wilkes: Sir Isaac Newton. 1820. An original antique stipple engraving. 8\" x 11\". [SCIp79]")
Victorian educational chart showing the comparative heights of mountains around the world.
Great Mastodon. Full skeleton.
Filling and Expediting of Barrels. No 5.
Comparative chart of the earth’s geology.
Allegory of Urania with an Astrolobe and Scroll with Architecture attended by Reason carrying Pallas’s shield and Mercury’s caduceus.
Fluor. Five examples of Fluor from the Poldice mine in Gwenaap. Engraved by John Pass.
Red stillbite or zeolite from Hall Hill, Scotland.
Refining and Distilling Plant. No 3.
Hydraulics (1-2), Pumps and Machines (3-16) Hydrostatic Press (19), Specific Gravity (20-22) Hydrometres (23-25). With Key.
Pterodactylus. Lateral skeletal view with details of skull.
‘Galvanic Electricity’: Sir William Robert Grove QC, a pioneer of fuel cell technology. SPY.
General Service Wall pictures educational series of daily life in Britain after Elizabeth Skilton.
Modern Express Engine. London and North-Western Railway.
Sound and Hearing (1-6), Ear (7), Musical Sounds (8-9), Musical Instruments (10-20). With Key.
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’.
![Wilkes: Nicolas Copernicus. 1810. An original antique stipple engraving. 5" x 7". [SCIp78]](https://i1.wp.com/prints.themaphouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/scip78w.jpg?w=254&h=332&ssl=1 "Wilkes: Nicolas Copernicus. 1810. An original antique stipple engraving. 5\" x 7\". [SCIp78]")
Quartzum var. aggregatum. Quartzose Pudding Stone from Hertfordshire and Essex.
Scientific Instruments: Planeterium Tellurium and Lunarium with Rowley’s Orrery.
Waterfalls, Islands, Lakes, Rivers and Mountains in the Western Hemisphere: An infographic chart of natural features of the western hemisphere.
Comparative view of buildings by height including the Pyramid of Cheops, St Peters, St Pauls with key. Framed.
Phenomena of the Atmosphere: With key to 24 types.
Barytes sulphata. Sulphate of barytes from Surrey.
Mastadon Giganticus: Lateral skeletal view of the prehistoric elephant.
Bristol Brabazon: View of the plane under construction with a half scale model as comparison. After Roland Davies.
Temperate Zone: Educational chart showing the environment and townscapes of a temperate zone.
Nickel, Calamine, Bismuth, Antinomy, Arsenic, Regulus and Wolfram. Engraved by John Pass.
Tropical Zone: Educational chart showing the flora, fauna, and inhabitants of a tropical environment.
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.
Container ship in front of a refinery. No 4.
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.
Cuprum hyperoxygenizatume. Hydrate of Copper from the Daleshead mine, Cumberland.
Infographic illustration of areas of geological interest.
Carbo oxygenizatus. Oxygenized Carbon from Denbigh.
Zincum carbonatum. Carbonate of zinc from the Matlock, Rutland mine.
Finished Petrol pumped at the Station. No 6.
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.
Silex steatites. Red and green serpentine from Lizard point, Cornwall.
Cuprum phosphatum. Copper phosphate from Cornwall
Stereographic Projection with Churchman’s New Projection for Mountainous Countries: Diagrams illustrating the use of contour lines to map elevation and underwater depths.
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.
Machine Age: View of the Industrial Metropolis. World’s Fair.
Scientific Instruments: Hadley’s Sextant with Adam’s quadrant, Bird’s Quadrant and Mural Telescope Quadrant.
Hydostatics: Pressure and equilibrium of liquids.
Geography: Copernican and Ptolemaic armillary spheres with terrestrial and celestial globes on matching stands with compasses.
Plesiosaurus. Fossil remains with details of skull
Nature in Descending Regions: Comparative chart of the World’s oceans and the different species that live within them.
Lead. Native lead 1-6, 8, German lead 7, Saxon lead 9, Napolitan lead 10, 11, Lorraine lead 12, Engraved by John Pass.
Arctic Zone: Educational chart showing the frigid mountainous environment, animals and inhabitants of polar regions.
Cuprum sulphureum. Blistered sulphuret of Copper from the Cook’s Kitchen mine, Cornwall.
Anoplotherium. Lateral skeletal view of the Llama-like animal with details of the jaw.
Armillary sphere (used to simulate the orbits of the heavenly bodies): With, a Terrestrial globe, and a Celestial globe.
Crampton’s Locomotive Engine.
Dirigible balloon ‘Patrie’. Diagram of parts with explanation in French.
Allegory with Therra Goddess of the Earth and Tethys Goddess of the Sea, dividing the globe into Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
Ferrum phosphatum. Iron phosphate and Iron carbonate from Huel Kine, Cornwall.
Scientific Instruments: Portable Astronomical Observatory.
Projection of Globes and Maps: Diagrams illustrating the mathematics behind various map projections used to convert a spherical globe into a flat map.
Cuprum subsulphureum. Vitreous copper ore from Cornwall.
Vertical distribution of climate of different mountains, and snow at different altitudes.
Calx Flour var cubica. Fulate of Lime from Cumberland.
Dendera: Temple of Hathor. Egyptian Zodiac from the ceiling of a shrine dedicated to the god Osiris in the temple of Hathor at Dendera. Renowned as the only complete map of an ancient sky.
Phenomena of the Earth: Four diagrams illustrating the theories of seasons, the day-night cycle, and solar time (sundials).
Geographical Definitions: Educational chart illustrating different geographical definitions across the world.
Diagrams of Dirigible aerostats or steerable balloons.
Calx carbonata. Crystallized lime carbonate from Matlock, Cornwall.