Woulfe apparatus
Date
1804
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Improved laboratory chemical equipment for distillation, using a series of bottles and glass tubes, including ‘a Welter’s tube of safety’.
The accompanying text notes that: ‘The inconvenience attending the complicated form of the Woulf’s apparatus now in use, is felt by experimental chemists in general…how desirable a thing it would be to render so useful an apparatus more simple…’
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of a Woul’s apparatus, invented by Mr. J. Knight, of Foster-lane, London’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.20, (1804-1805) p.272.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XX Pl.VII. MR. KNIGHT’S IMPROVED WOULF’S APPARATUS.’ Inscribed below: ‘Lowry sculp. 79’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Peter Woulfe (1727?–1803), chemist and mineralogist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767. He was known for inventing the ‘Woulfe bottle’, used for passing gases through liquids.
The accompanying text notes that: ‘The inconvenience attending the complicated form of the Woulf’s apparatus now in use, is felt by experimental chemists in general…how desirable a thing it would be to render so useful an apparatus more simple…’
Plate 7, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of a Woul’s apparatus, invented by Mr. J. Knight, of Foster-lane, London’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.20, (1804-1805) p.272.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Vol.XX Pl.VII. MR. KNIGHT’S IMPROVED WOULF’S APPARATUS.’ Inscribed below: ‘Lowry sculp. 79’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Peter Woulfe (1727?–1803), chemist and mineralogist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767. He was known for inventing the ‘Woulfe bottle’, used for passing gases through liquids.
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