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  • Boyle's second air-pump
  • The air-pump of Otto von Guericke.
  • Pneumatics: two kinds of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • B. Martin, "Portable air-pump...": rabbit & fish in receivers
  • Pneumatics: a large kind of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • Surgical instruments and apparatus, including an air pump vapour bath. Engraving by Campbell.
  • Pneumatics: three kinds of air pump, including (lower right) Cuthbertson's design. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1796.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • Example of the first type of Boyle's air-pump, made on the continent. Marked with a French lily and a little vase. Perhaps made in France. In the Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natur weten schappen at Leyden.
  • New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) / Written by way of letter to ... Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan ... by the Honorable Robert Boyle.
  • Air balloon : at Mr. Patterson's Great Room, no. 6, King-Street, Covent-Garden on Monday, the 1st of December, and every evening during the week, will be delivered a lecture on air / by J. Dinwiddie.
  • Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.
  • A group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching.
  • A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • A lecture on pneumatics at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802.