Sketch by Dr. Thomas Beddoes in a letter to Jame Watt, February 27, 1795. From ‘The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, Medicine, and Reform’ by Trevor Levere, published Taylor and Francis, 2016. Page 26.
Category Archives: Gasometer
Watt – Beddoes Gasometer, 1795
Gasometer built by James Watt for Dr. Thomas Beddoes for use at the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, England where the effects of newly discovered gases were being researched. Illustration found on Wikipedia.
Lavoisier’s Gasometer, 1789
From Lavoisier Panopticon. Undated photo attributed to Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM, Paris, France.
Gasometer, 1824
Gasometer used to store coal gas for lighting. From Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, published 1824. From an article on Gas Lights (pp. 448-461), plate XXXIII.
Gasometer, 1824
Gasometer used to store coal gas for lighting. From Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, published 1824. From an article on Gas Lights (pp. 448-461), plate XXXIII.
Gasometer, 1824
Gasometer used to store coal gas for lighting. From Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and Improved, published 1824. From an article on Gas Lights (pp. 448-461), plate XXXIII.
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.
Gasometer, Collins, 1972
From “Laboratory manual for physiology of exercise”, by Laurence E. Morehours, Published by C.V. Mosby, 1972, page 87.
Double Gasometer, Whipple’s, 1905
Appears to have been used primarily to produce a steady flow of air to produce acoustical tones for auditory research. Found in Experimental Psychology: Students’ manual. pt. 2. Instructor’s manual, by Edward Bradford Titchener, Macmillan, published 1905, page 141.
Gasometer, Compressed Air Therapy, 1887
Before there were oxygen bars there were compressed air bars! Compressed air was a therapy championed by Waldenburg but even during his time it was severely criticized. Compressed air was stored in gasometers and then delivered by mask. From Dictionnaire Populare de Medicine, Volume 1, published by Flammarion and Marpon, Paris, 1887, page 52.