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1. New Steelyards for Weighing Gasses. 2. Apparatus for the Combustion of the Diamond

  • 1801
  • Engraved by J. Pass, after the drawing by Henry Lascelles
    Made in London
  • Plate: 9.5 x 7.5 in.
    Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
  • Not on display
  • Gift of Fisher Scientific International
  • Fisher Collection
  • FA 2000.001.188
  • No known copyright restrictions

Description

Plate X of modern chemical apparatus from Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.

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Published as the Act directs March 2, 1801 by J. Wilkes

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