A pneumatic trough used by Joseph Priestley to isolate oxygen. From a book review “The Man Who Discovered Oxygen (Maybe) and Gave the World Soda Water” b
Category Archives: 1780s
Lavoisier’s Gasometer, 1789
From Lavoisier Panopticon. Undated photo attributed to Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM, Paris, France.
Lavoisier’s Gasometer, 1789
From Lavoisier Panopticon. Undated photo attributed to Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM, Paris, France.
Lavoisier’s Gasometer, 1789
The gasometer used by Lavoisier in his research on combustion and “phlogiston” as illustrated in the Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, plate VIII, published 1789. Found on ACS.org.