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John Peter Gassiot. Photograph.

Three Fellows of the Royal Society offering the presidency of the Society to Michael Faraday in 1857. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.

Electric discharges in vacuum tube, belonging to J.P. Gassiot. Coloured lithograph etching, ca. 1860.

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Gassiot, John P. (John Peter), 1797-1877

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Electric discharges in vacuum tube, belonging to J.P. Gassiot. Coloured lithograph etching, ca. 1860.