Apparatus Collection (#48)

Technical Divers using Trimix, Rebreathers and technical diving equipment, Divetech, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
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Scientist working at a computer in a laboratory

Purifying chemicals in the lab
MODEL RELEASED. Purifying chemicals. The scientist is using an Isco sq 16x open access purification system. This provides a means of purifying chemicals in the laboratory rather than sending samples

Disposable pipettes made from plastic

Anaesthetics / Charriere
Charrieres anaesthetic apparatus

Miners Rescue Station
A Miners Rescue Station with the use of oxygen apparatus

X-Ray Apparatus / 1895
X-Ray apparatus, in the year X-Rays were discovered

Hartmanns Diving Bell
Professor Hartman uses his pressurised diving apparatus in the Gulf of Napoli, Italy

Treating Bow Legs (2)
Bow legs and their treatment with apparatus intended to straighten them

Treating Bow Legs
Apparatus intended to correct bow legs

Pasteurs Apparatus
Original apparatus used by Pasteur for the cooling and fermenting of the beer wort

Futuristic dictation machine
A futuristic dictation machine, which allows a businessman to dictate his correspondence without the need for a secretary

Bells Photophone / C19Th
Bells photophon being demonstrated

Smoke Helmets in Use
Smoke helmets in use by two members of a colliery rescue brigade, allowing breathing in a smoky or poisonous atmosphere for several hours if necessary

A Reading in Bed Device
A book-holding device for reading in bed. The book may be inclined to catch the light, whilst the pages are kept free for ease of page- turning

Racial / C Africa / Med Man
Central African medicine man with apparatus and attendant musicians and dancers

Watching Bairds Device
Watching a demonstration of BAIRDs apparatus

Using Bells Telephone
Using Bells original telephone apparatus

Gymnastics at School
Boys and girls from the Home and Colonial Infant School Grays Inn Lane, London, enjoy see-saws, swings, parallel bars and other apparatus

C16 Alchemists
An alchemist and his assistant heat the substances whose essence will collect in the flasks at the top of the apparatus, shedding impurities as they rise up the column

Vodka Manufacture / Russia
Vodka manufacture in Russia Mixing apparatus to obtain the spirit before it is filtered through carbon and sand

Dowser Bleton
French sourcier BLETON, blindfolded and using no apparatus, convinces a committee of scientists of his dowsing ability

Morse / Electric Telegraph
Morse telegraphic apparatus Card 2 of 2 B - the receiving end C - the " key" which produces the break of contact

German Divers Suit
German diver with breathing apparatus and line

Klingerts Diving Suit 1
Klingerts diving suit and apparatus

Sport / Climbing / Himalayas
In their Everest attempt, English climbers Bruce and Finch reach 8300 metres, helped with oxygen apparatus

Artificial hand and arm apparatus
An artificial hand -- the steel hand of Carslogie -- and the arm apparatus which held and operated it

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