Pascal's experiment in the Puy de Dôme to test the relation between atmospheric pressure and altitude. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

Clocks: James Cox's "perpetual motion" self-winding clock. Engraving by J. Lodge, 1774.

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The ambivalence of air

A brief history of ventilation

Specification of Walter Whitehouse : sustaining artificial teeth by atmospheric pressure.

Of the atmospheric pressure and capillary attraction method of applying artificial teeth / Chapin A. Harris.

Physical effects of compressed air, and of the causes of pathological symptoms produced on man, by increased atmospheric pressure employed for the sinking of piers, in the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri / by A. Jaminet.

Experimental researches on the influence exercised by atmospheric pressure upon the progression of the blood in the veins : upon that function called absorption, and upon the prevention and cure of the symptoms caused by the bites of rabid or venomous animals ... / by David Barry.

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The ambivalence of air

A brief history of ventilation

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Specification of Walter Whitehouse : sustaining artificial teeth by atmospheric pressure.

Of the atmospheric pressure and capillary attraction method of applying artificial teeth / Chapin A. Harris.

Pascal's experiment in the Puy de Dôme to test the relation between atmospheric pressure and altitude. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

Physical effects of compressed air, and of the causes of pathological symptoms produced on man, by increased atmospheric pressure employed for the sinking of piers, in the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri / by A. Jaminet.

Experimental researches on the influence exercised by atmospheric pressure upon the progression of the blood in the veins : upon that function called absorption, and upon the prevention and cure of the symptoms caused by the bites of rabid or venomous animals ... / by David Barry.

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Stories

The ambivalence of air

A brief history of ventilation

Images

Catalogue

Specification of Walter Whitehouse : sustaining artificial teeth by atmospheric pressure.

Of the atmospheric pressure and capillary attraction method of applying artificial teeth / Chapin A. Harris.

Pascal's experiment in the Puy de Dôme to test the relation between atmospheric pressure and altitude. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

Physical effects of compressed air, and of the causes of pathological symptoms produced on man, by increased atmospheric pressure employed for the sinking of piers, in the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri / by A. Jaminet.

Experimental researches on the influence exercised by atmospheric pressure upon the progression of the blood in the veins : upon that function called absorption, and upon the prevention and cure of the symptoms caused by the bites of rabid or venomous animals ... / by David Barry.