Eudiometer
Date
1808
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 128mm
width (print): 128mm
Content object
Description
Study of a eudiometer, consisting of a graduated cylindrical glass tube, a stand with clasp and screw, and an iron cylinder containing a spiral spring.
The accompanying article commences: ‘The enclosed drawing (Plate I) represents a eudiometer we lately made on the suggestion of Mr. Davy, for the more commodious display of the formation of water, by the combustion of the two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, by means of the electric spark.’
Plate 1, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of a new eudiometer, invented by H. Davy, Esq., F.R.S., for the combustion of oxygen and hydrogen gases’. By R. Knight. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.31, (1808) p.4.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.XXXI Pl.I. Davy’s improved Eudeometer’. Inscribed below: ‘Lowry sculp. 121’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), British chemist and inventor, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803. He served as President from 1820 to 1827.
Richard Knight (1768-1844), British chemist and instrument maker.
The accompanying article commences: ‘The enclosed drawing (Plate I) represents a eudiometer we lately made on the suggestion of Mr. Davy, for the more commodious display of the formation of water, by the combustion of the two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, by means of the electric spark.’
Plate 1, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of a new eudiometer, invented by H. Davy, Esq., F.R.S., for the combustion of oxygen and hydrogen gases’. By R. Knight. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.31, (1808) p.4.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.XXXI Pl.I. Davy’s improved Eudeometer’. Inscribed below: ‘Lowry sculp. 121’.
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), British chemist and inventor, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803. He served as President from 1820 to 1827.
Richard Knight (1768-1844), British chemist and instrument maker.
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