Davy, Apparatus (Vol. 4, Plate 1)

• Fig. 1. -- Apparatus for shewing the expansion of air by heat.
• Fig. 2. -- Sir John Leslie's differential thermometer.
• Fig. 3. -- An instrument described by Van Helmont, resembling in form the differential thermometer.
• Fig. 4. -- Apparatus for shewing that fluids are very bad conductors of heat.
• Fig. 5. -- Apparatus for shewing the conversion of a fluid into an elastic fluid by heat.
• Fig. 6. -- Apparatus for exploding a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen, (Volta's eudrometer).

From Humphry Davy, Collected Works, vol. IV, plate 1.

• Contexts:
  • Science -- Chemistry