Engraving depicting the Wagstaff's air pump in Magazine of Science, and School of Arts. Dated 19th Century.
Edward Derby, a philosophical instrument maker and successor to the �Ingenious Mr Joseph Hickman�, Union Court facing St Andrews Church, Holborn,...
Photograph of a scientific instrument exhibited in the Special Loan Collections of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum, London, in...
Photograph of a scientific instrument preserved by the Royal Society and exhibited in the Special Loan Collections of Scientific Apparatus at the...
Photograph of a scientific instrument exhibited in the Special Loan Collections of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum, London, in...
Willem Jakobs Gravesande was a Dutch physicist who studied with Isaac Newton and published a textbook in 1750 emphasising the use of demonstrations...
Engraving taken from 'Experimenta Nova' by the German scientist Otto von Guericke , showing his experiment with an evacuated sphere being carried out...
Modern reconstruction of the vacuum pump built by Robert Hooke for Robert Boyle in 1659. This was the first British vacuum pump and was an...
Modern reconstruction of the vacuum pump built by Robert Hooke for Robert Boyle in 1659. This was the first British vacuum pump and was an...
Air pump connecting rod and parallel motion air pumps. The SS 'Great Britain' was the first screw-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, as well as...
Drawing of the air pump made by George Adams for King George III, from the pneumatics manuscript, 1761.
Coloured drawing from a collection of documents dated c 1797-1847 relating to the work of Simon Goodrich, mechanist to the Navy Board. Shown here is...潛水
Francis Hauksbee was an English physicist and scientific instrument maker. He first demonstrated his pump at a meeting of the Royal Society in...
Illustration from Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia'. Hooke studied at Oxford University, where he met Robert Boyle and assisted him in the construction...
Francis Hauksbee was an English physicist and scientific instrument maker. He first demonstrated his pump at a meeting of the Royal Society in...
Illustration from Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia'. Hooke studied at Oxford University, where he met Robert Boyle and assisted him in the construction...
This pump is very similar to the one designed by John Smeaton in 1750. Smeaton's design had a single barrel and the valves and pistons were carefully...
This air pump by George Adams, instrument maker to the king, is the centrepiece of the pneumatics apparatus commissioned by George III in 1761. The...
This air pump by George Adams, instrument maker to the king, is the centrepiece of the pneumatics apparatus commissioned by George III in 1761. The...
This air pump by George Adams, instrument maker to the king, is the centrepiece of the pneumatics apparatus commissioned by George III in 1761. The...
This pump is very similar to the one designed by John Smeaton in 1750. Smeaton's design had a single barrel and the valves and pistons were carefully...
This example of a table air pump has two brass cylinders. The pistons are operated by turning the handle in one direction. The rising piston sucks...
George Adams, instrument maker to the king, who made this, called this 'a convenient apparatus to examine a portion of air, taken by chance or choice...
This air pump by George Adams, instrument maker to the king, is the centrepiece of the pneumatics apparatus commissioned by George III in 1761. The...
Illustration from Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia'. Hooke studied at Oxford University, where he met Robert Boyle and assisted him in the construction...