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21 images from works
  • Electricity: an electrometer attached to an electro-static generator. Engraving, 1769.
  • A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Humidity measurement, and details of a hygrometer. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.
  • Mensuration: a man using an inclinometer (?) and trigonometry to measure a water-tank (?) in a field. Engraving, ca.1760.
  • Science: a complex machine for determining the specific gravity of various substances, an observer in early eighteenth-century dress looks on. Engraving.
  • A sheet of standard weights and measures in use during the twelfth year of the reign of Henry VII. Engraving, 1746, probably by I. Basire, after a manuscript of c.1497.
  • Chemistry: chemical apparatus made of glass, metal etc. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.
  • A pyrometer: shown in and out of its box. Engraving, mid eighteenth century.
  • The phrenologist Bernard Hollander illustrating with his own head his system of cranial measurements. Photographs, c. 1902.
  • A clock and a further instrument of measurement. Line block process print.
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