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Pneumatics

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Physics

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Images from the collections

Images about Pneumatics

14 images from works
  • 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.

Works from the collections

34 works

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    Analysis of a course of lectures : on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and astronomy / read by James Ferguson.

    Ferguson, James, 1710-1776. | Date: 1761
    • Books

    Georgii Sinclari quondam in Universitate Glasguensi ... Ars nova et magna gravitatis et levitatis. Sive dialogorum philosophicorum libri sex de aeris verâ ac reali gravitate, &c. Quibus accessere de instrumentis hydrogogicis libri duo: de hygroscopio, & chronoscopio seu pendulo liber unus, nec non Palladis Gymnasium ... / [George Sinclair].

    Sinclair, George, -1696. | Date: 1669
    • Pictures

    Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of air-pumps, including (centre) Cuthbertson's pump. Engraving by A. Bell.

    | Reference: 47571i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.

    | Date: 1 August 1795 | Reference: 47579i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of windmill. Engraving by J. Taylor.

    | Date: 1802 | Reference: 47576i

Related topics

Air
Vacuum
Science
Balloons
Air-pumps

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