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Furnaces

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Steam-boilers
Heating

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Images about Furnaces

99 images from works
  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.
  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
  • Pottery: a large kiln, shown in elevations and sections. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Various types of furnaces
  • A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.
  • Iron: rolling machine (top), and elevation and cross-section of two blast furnaces (below). Engraving c.1861.
  • A hand mill with four mortars operated by two assistants. Engraving, 16--, after J. Besson.
  • Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
  • An alchemist at his furnace, hunched over bellows. Coloured mezzotint by H. Dawe after D. Teniers the younger.
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Works from the collections

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    Specification of James Theodore Griffin : economising fuel and consuming smoke in furnaces.

    Griffin, James Theodore. | Date: 1873
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    Specification of William Wood : apparatus for condensing smoke from furnaces &c.

    Wood, William (Screenwriter) | Date: 1854
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    Specification of Ferdinand Jossa : furnaces and ovens.

    Jossa, Ferdinand. | Date: 1857
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    Specification of William Tipping : preventing or consuming smoke.

    Tipping, William. | Date: 1870
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    Specification of Edward Ettrick : furnaces.

    Ettrick, Edward. | Date: 1861
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Related topics

United Kingdom
Smoke prevention
Steam-boilers
Fireplaces
Boilers
Steam-engines
Alchemy
Stoves
Chemistry
Alchemists

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