[Three Furnaces]

Name:

Lewis, William, 1708-1781

Date:

1765

Identifier:

609 L584 PL.2

Subject:

Glassware; Distillation; Air Furnaces (Wind Furnaces); Retorts; Muffle; Reverberatory Furnaces (Reverberatory); Furnaces (Stove, Oven); Crucibles

Form/Genre:

engravings (prints)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

From "Explanation of Plate II," p. 35: "wind melting furnace with a section of the grate and crucible"[right]; "assay furnace with a section of the muffle above the grate"[center]; "reverberatory, with a glass retort for distillation"[left]. Plate 2 from Commercium Philosphico-Technicum; or, the Philosophical Commerce of Arts (London 1765); Print

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)