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  • Chemistry: an industrial distillery, in Scotland (?). Engraving, early 19th century.
  • Diagram of Graham's Osmometer (to study osmosis).
  • Table of osmotic pressure for various solutions. 19th C
  • Design for a general laboratory. 1822
  • Kekule, Ueber die Constitution und die Metapmorphosen...
  • Accum's gas-making installation. 19th C
  • Berthelot's calorimetric bomb: cross section.
  • Accum's gas-making installation. 19th C
  • Calorimeter designed & used by Berthelot
  • Glass retort with stopper. mid 19th C
  • Berthelot's apparatus for determining heat of combustion.
  • Liebig's condensers. 19th C
  • Liebig's apparatus for organic analysis. 19th C
  • Liebig's combination tube and drying apparatus. 19th C
  • C. Tomlinson, Illustrations of Useful Arts and Manufactures. Chemistry: Industry. 1858
  • Chemical apparatus. mid 19th C
  • Negretti & Zambra: Catalogue. Bunsen burners. circa 1880
  • Section of Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford. 19th C
  • Sectio of Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford. 19th C
  • Chemistry apparatus used by Berthelot
  • Berthelot's apparatus for measuring heat of vaporization.
  • Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford in 1858 & 1873. Plant belonging to W. H. Perkin and his brother, T. D. Perkin.
  • A man breathing in nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and a man exhibiting its exhilarating effects. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • A man dancing and laughing as a result of the effects of nitrous oxide gas. Engraving.
  • A man in the foreground conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic; in the background a female figure representing the world looks at a chemist, who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle; representing the historical transition from alchemy to chemistry. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
  • A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
  • A woman representing truth sits in a chemical laboratory and points at the source of a ray of light, representing philosophy. Engraving by Crabb, 1817, after G.M. Brighty.
  • Surrey Institution, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London: the interior of the rotunda, F. Accum lecturing. Coloured aquatint by J. C. Stadler, 1809, after T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin.
  • King George III analysing the residue from a large glass retort containing a small figure; representing the English view of Napoleon. Coloured aquatint by T. West, 1803.