Pneumatics
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![Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of spirit lamp [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0025426/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Inventions: a rat-trap (top) a bellows (centre) and an electrical capacitor [?] (below). Engraving.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0025406/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
29 works
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Tractatus, in quibus continentur suspiciones de latentibus quibusdam qualitatibus aeris; : unà cum appendice de magnetibus coelestibus, nonnullisque argumentis aliis, animadversiones in d. Hobbesii Problemata de vacuo, et dissertatio de causa attractionis per suctionem. / Authore Roberto Boyle.
Robert BoyleDate: M. DC. LXXX. [1680]
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Analysis of a course of lectures : on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and astronomy / read by James Ferguson.
James FergusonDate: 1761- Pictures
Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of air-pumps, including (centre) Cuthbertson's pump. Engraving by A. Bell.
Reference: 47571i
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Pneumatics: experiments to do with oxygen [?]. Engraving, 1795.
Date: 1 August 1795Reference: 47579i
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Pneumatics: an air-rifle and a kind of windmill. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Date: 1802Reference: 47576i