- Subject
- Print Collection
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- J.T. Balcomb
- Primary inscriptions
- The Illustrated London News, Sept. 16 1876 - 269 Historical treasures in the loan collection of Scientific Apparatus, South Kensington,
- Physical material
- Paper
- Physical medium
- Black ink
- Object type
- Dimensions
- Height: 405mm Width: 274mm
- Inventory No
- 13773
Description
Line Engraving. Intaglio.
The instruments are Tycho Brahe's quadrant, Francis Drake's "astrolabe" (astronomical compendium), 2 telescopes and a microscope of Galileo, Newton's telescope, Jansen's compound miscroscope, three versions of Humphrey Davy's safety-lamp, Pascal's adding and subtracting machine, 1642, "Napier Bones" for division and multiplication, about 1700, Sömmering's electric telegraph, 1809, Faraday's magneto-electric induction and later apparatus, Forbes's apparatus, Galileo's air thermometer, Dalton's mountain barometer, Dalton's apparatus for testing the tension of ether vapour and an "ancient Swiss clock from Dover Castle".
Verso: page 270 of the Illustrated London News, September 16 1876
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