Memoir on the supply and application of the blow-pipe : containing an account of a new method of supplying the blowpipe either with common air, or oxygen gas : and also of the effects of the intense heat produced by the combustion of the hydrogen and oxygen gases : illustrated by engravings / published by order of the Chemical Society of Philadelphia ; to whom it was presented by Robert Hare, Jun.

  • Hare, Robert, 1781-1858.
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Memoir on the supply and application of the blow-pipe : containing an account of a new method of supplying the blowpipe either with common air, or oxygen gas : and also of the effects of the intense heat produced by the combustion of the hydrogen and oxygen gases : illustrated by engravings / published by order of the Chemical Society of Philadelphia ; to whom it was presented by Robert Hare, Jun. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Printed for the Chemical Society, by H. Maxwell ..., 1802.

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34 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plate : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)

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The author was a member of the Society's committee, appointed Oct. 24, 1801, "for the discovery of means, by which a greater concentration of heat might be obtained for mechanical purposes." Continues his report of Dec. 10, 1801. Cf. Introd
Plate: "Engraved for the Chemical Society of Philadelphia, by James Akin, after drawings made by himself from the originals in ye. inventor's possession."

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Shaw & Shoemaker 2371

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1975. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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