EditorialFumarole or sulphuric gases escaping from Solfatara volcano near Naples 1, and the eruption of the volcano on Stromboli island, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.B. Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Pict...
EditorialPortrait of Joseph Priestley, 1789 Engraver: W Nutter After: John Hazlitt Publisher: John Hazlitt, Joseph Priestley, (1733-1804) was a clergyman, political theorist, and physical scientist whose work contributed to advances in liberal political and rel...
EditorialDanger from sulfur or other gifitge gases, The miners pass through the shaft on ropes, ladders or on sprouts into the pit construction (retraction), with the fires the sulfur concentration is measured, woodcut, p. 171, (Liber sextus), Manuel, Hans Rudo...
EditorialModel of a Ship's Galley, Model of a ship galley painted black. It is a cubic structure with an oven at the front and a chimney at the back. Two bins, one of which has two compartments, hang at the top, they have round openings at the top. A separate c...
EditorialMachinery for refrigeration; being sundry observations with regard to the principal appliances employed in ice making and refrigeration, and upon the laws relating to the expansion and compression of gases : Selfe, Norman.
EditorialModel of a Ship's Galley, Model of a galley, painted black. It is a cubic structure with an oven at the front and a chimney at the back. Two bins, one of which has two compartments, hang at the top, they have round openings at the top. A separate compa...
EditorialFumarole or sulphuric gases escaping from Solfatara volcano near Naples 1, and the eruption of the volcano on Stromboli island, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.B. Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Pict...
EditorialGrotto of Pausilippe near Naples 1, and the Grotta del Cane (Dogs Cave) near Naples with its mofetta or fumarole, volcanic discharge of sulphuric gases 2. Engraved by J.B. Hoessel, Weimar, 1802. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann ...
EditorialJames Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, born in Edinburgh. Maxwell developed a set of equations expressing the basic laws of electricity and magnetism as well as the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory of gases. Ca...