[Laboratory for metallurgy and the industrial arts]

Name:

Lewis, William (1714-1781); Wale, Samuel (-d. 1786); Canot, Pierre-Charles (1710-1777)

Date:

1765

Identifier:

609 L584 FRONT

Subject:

Metal: Iron; Distillation; Furnaces (Stove, Oven); Thermometers; Balance; Retorts; Rings; Tongs; Alembic; Bellows; Laboratories

Form/Genre:

Engravings

Rights:

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

Notes:

S. Wale del.; P. C. Canot sculp.; Eight furnaces in various locations; two balances on windowsill. This laboratory may have been intended for metallurgical work, glassmaking, and other chemical and industrial experiments. Frontispiece to Lewis's Commercium Philosophico-Technicum (London 1765); Printed by H. Baldwin; Print

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)