CHEMICAL LAB Chemistry Laboratory Furnaces Vessels Retorts - 1778 Antique Print

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Seller: Top-Rated Seller martin2001 ✉️ (54,495) 100%, Location: Manassas, Virginia, US, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 134174888855 CHEMICAL LAB Chemistry Laboratory Furnaces Vessels Retorts - 1778 Antique Print.
Print  Specifics:
  • Type of print: Copperplate engraving - Scarce original antique print:
  • Year of printing: not indicated in the print. Actual: 1778 (indicated on the source's title page)
  • Publisher: London, Printed for the Authors Rev. Erasmus Middleton, W. Turnbull, T. Ellis & J. Davison
  • Condition: 2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). The print is slightly uneven (wavy).
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 13.5 inches (22 x 34 cm) 
  • Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
  • Reverse side: Blank
  • Note: 1.  Green 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. 3. Photos show the front and back of the print.
Legend: 1. A reverberatory furnace for distilling oil of vitriol, etc. with thirty-two long-necks. a, a, a, the receivers, that are placed within the furnace, opposite to b, b, b, b, the necks of the longnecks, the bodies being placed with the furnace, c, the fire-place, d, the ash-hole. 2. A large furnace, in which flowers of sulphur are sublimed in a great quantity. a, the fire-place, b, the ash-hole. c, a door into the body of the furnace, by which the flowers are taken out. 3. A melting furnace, a, b, two small doors to the fire-place, to be opened occasionally, when it is necessary to inspect the matter acted on by the fire, or to add fuel. c, a large door, to be opened when a crucible is to be set in or taken out of the furnace. 4. A pelican, or circulatory vessel. 5. A subliming furnace, d, the body of the furnace, a, the body into which the matter to be sublimed is projected. b, b, b, three aludels. c, the head. 6. A tubulated retort. 7. A body and head. 8. An adopter, a, a glass vent-tube fitted to its small end. 9. A retort. 10. A melter’s horn, or antimonial cone. 11. A commodious apparatus for making spirit of sulphur. a, a large retort with a hole in its bottom, f, a tubulated receiver, with the spout upwards, e, a glass mortar- d, a concave glass plate, with a hole in the middle, e, a gallipot inverted over the perforation in d. b, a crucible containing burning sulphur. 12. A German crucible. 13. A muffle. 14. A black lead crucible. 15. A cupel or coppel. 16. An alembic head. 17. A blind head. 18. An adopter. 19. A receiver. 20. An earthen long-neck for distilling oil of vitriol, etc. 21. A furnace for digestions, etc. a, a vessel, containing the ingredients to be digested. 22. A furnace for distilling harts-horn in quantity. B, the furnace, containg an iron pot. c, an earthen head, b, b, two receivers. 23. A furnace for distilling with a retort on an open fire, d, a coated retort placed in the furnace. 24. A furnace for distilling in balneum mariae. D, the furnace, containing an iron pot filled with water, c, the vessel, containing the ingredients placed hi the water. d, a glass head, e, a receiver. 25. A small furnace for boiling syrups, etc. 26. A furnace for melting, boiling, etc. M, the bellows. f, a glass body in a copper vessel filled with water, placed over the furnace. 27. A furnace for making spirit of sal ammoniac, etc. G, the furnace, a, a retort placed in the furnace, g, a large receiver. 28. An apparatus for procuring the volatile salt of sal ammoniac, etc. in a dry form, i, an adopter, h, a receiver. 29. A sand-heat, with a retort and receiver. 30. A cold-still. n, the head. o, the receiver, 31. An open furnace for extracting volatile halts, as from vipers, etc. q, a coated retort placed in the furnace on an open fire, p, the receiver, 32. A furnace for digestions, tinctures, etc. f, a vessel, containing the ingredients to be digested. r, a blind head. 33. Two stills at work with one common refrigeratory, a, the body of the largest still. b, its head. f, the receiver. e, the body of the smallest still. d, its head, g, a spout receiver for separating oil from water. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy!
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  • Condition: Please See Item Condition & Notes Below
  • Production Technique: Intaglio
  • Material: Paper
  • Theme: History, Science & Medicine, Chemistry
  • Time Period Produced: 1750-1799
  • Type: Print
  • Features: Not-framed
  • Subject: Lab Laboratorium
  • Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
  • Year of Production: 1778
  • Print Type: Copperplate engraving
  • Dimensions:: 8.5 x 13.5 inches (22 x 34 cm)
  • Listed By: Martin2001

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