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  • Heating apparatus. Engraving by J. Pass.
  • Simple method of heating a dental case
  • Arrangement for heating bath water. Watercolour drawing by P. Johnston-Saint, 1933.
  • M0007329: Illustration of early 15th century bath house with steam heating
  • 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.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers heating and drying tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • 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.
  • Chemistry: vessels for heating with furnaces, including apparatus for bathing, making beer, making vinegar, etc. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A Japanese man heating his sword before using it to torture or kill a man tied to wooden staves. Colour process print after a woodcut (?).
  • An old gallant is hosed down by two interfering young men; thus preventing any over-heating of the old lecher's heart. Coloured lithograph by F.S. Bach.
  • Assam, India: a kala-azar out-patient centre: a small group of men, women and children sit beneath a grass-roofed shelter with some metal bowls (for heating water for sterilisation ?). Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • A chemist and his assistant as "puffers" heating a substance in a retort; representing a theatre critic who "puffs" the actor Joseph Holman at the bidding of his editor. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, ca. 1786.
  • C18 Chinese woodcut: Wind-heat throat
  • Berthelot's apparatus for measuring heat of vaporization.
  • Masks and goggles against light and heat
  • Berthelot's apparatus for determining heat of combustion.
  • A mounted cow (not in heat) walking away
  • Heat-sensitive pits on lips of a Python
  • A cow in heat standing to be mounted
  • The "Eclipse" radiant heat hand lamp / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • The "Eclipse" radiant heat hand lamp / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Cold, wind and heat
  • A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.
  • A receptacle for burning coal to heat cautery instruments. Engraving.