Apparatus for decomposition of alkalis
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 chemical apparatus, consisting of a glass cylinder with a perforated stopper for the insertion of a wire holding two circular plates of copper and platinum. A wooden cover is noted in the accompanying account.
Plate 8, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of the apparatus invented by W.H. Pepys, Esq., for the decomposition of the alkalis under naptha, by galvanism’. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.31, (1808) pp.241.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.8 Vol.XXXI. MR. PEPYS Apparatus for the Decomposition of the ALKALIS under NAPTHA’. Inscribed below: ‘Lowry del et sculp’.
William Haseldine Pepys (1775-1856), British surgical instrument maker and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1808.
Plate 8, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of the apparatus invented by W.H. Pepys, Esq., for the decomposition of the alkalis under naptha, by galvanism’. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.31, (1808) pp.241.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.8 Vol.XXXI. MR. PEPYS Apparatus for the Decomposition of the ALKALIS under NAPTHA’. Inscribed below: ‘Lowry del et sculp’.
William Haseldine Pepys (1775-1856), British surgical instrument maker and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1808.
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