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  • Pneumatics: three kinds of air pump, including (lower right) Cuthbertson's design. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1796.
  • Pneumatics: a large kind of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • Pneumatics: a heavy weight suspended from an evacuated sphere. Engraving.
  • Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of spirit lamp [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.
  • Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of scientific equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
  • Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of windmill. Engraving by J. Taylor.
  • Inventions: a rat-trap (top) a bellows (centre) and an electrical capacitor [?] (below). Engraving.
  • 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.
  • Pneumatics: scientific equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • Pneumatics: two kinds of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.
  • Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.
  • 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.
  • Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier. Stipple engraving by J. Collyer, 1786, after J. Russell.