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Concept

Distillation apparatus

Images

  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
  • A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • Three Wallachian men round a log fire with distilling apparatus nearby. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Summa destillationis : von der Destillation, den gebrannten Wassern und mancherlei Laboratoriumskünsten / Heinz W. Prinzler.

    Prinzler, Heinz, 1914- | Date: [1983], ©1983
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    The interior of a distillery, with a man seated on a chair smoking a pipe; various objects hanging on the wall. Wash drawing, ca. 1830.

    | Date: 1830 | Reference: 575677i
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    • Online

    Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.

    Woolf, Arthur. | Date: 1854
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    A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.

    | Reference: 25765i
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    Specification of James Rumsey : boilers for steam engines, for distillation, &c.

    Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792. | Date: 1854
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