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  • Blotter : Carr's Fever Powders : for colds, feverish heats, influenza.
  • Blotter : Carr's Fever Powders : for colds, feverish heats, influenza.
  • Blotter : Carr's Fever Powders : for colds, feverish heats, influenza.
  • A Chinese man heats up sections of a metal chain over a flame in order to torture a prisoner. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Dri-Block heaters / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Dri-Block heaters / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Dri-Block heaters / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Dri-Block heaters / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Heating apparatus. Engraving by J. Pass.
  • Simple method of heating a dental case
  • PHC-3 Thermal cyclers, heated lid and accessories / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • PHC-3 Thermal cyclers, heated lid and accessories / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • PHC-3 Thermal cyclers, heated lid and accessories / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • PHC-3 Thermal cyclers, heated lid and accessories / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Arrangement for heating bath water. Watercolour drawing by P. Johnston-Saint, 1933.
  • A discourse of naturall bathes, and minerall waters. Wherein first the originall of fountaines in generall is declared. Then the nature and differences of minerals, with examples of particular bathes from most of them. Next the generation of minerals in the earth, from whence both the actuall heate of bathes, and their vertues are proved to proceede. Also by what meanes minerall waters are to be examined and discovered. And lastly, of the nature and uses of the bathes, but especially of our bathes at Bathe in Sommersetshire / [Edward Jorden].
  • Fully furnished family house, fitted carpets, central heating, suit animal lover... / Bayer plc.
  • Fully furnished family house, fitted carpets, central heating, suit animal lover... / Bayer plc.
  • Baths of Caracalla, Rome: the water heating system. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.
  • Equipment invented by Ramshaw for heating copper plates. Engraving by A.W. Warren after W. Newton.
  • Implements invented by Ramshaw for heating copper plates. Engraving by A. W. Warren after W. Newton.
  • An apothecary drawing a distillate from one of four stills heated by a single oven. Woodcut.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers heating and drying tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • An apothecary drawing a distillate from one of four stills heated by a single oven. Woodcut.
  • A body covered with a blanket lying on a heated bath for the purpose of resuscitation. Etching, 1790.
  • Textiles: ribbon making, heating the ribbons on drums (top), details of equipment (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Architecture: sections through a lime-kiln [?], with blocks of limestone heaped up for heating. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Sir John Soane's House and Museum: plans of the basement and ground floors, showing the heating arrangements. Lithograph by Day & son.
  • A servant serves food from a degchi (pot), while two other dishes are heated on the fire. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A barber trimming a man's moustache in his bedchamber; in the left-hand background a man attends to various heated hair-dressing implements. Engraving.