Author: James WATT (AND CO.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Directions for using the Patent Portable Copying Machines, invented & made by James Watt and Company, of Soho, near Birmingham
Author: James WATT (AND CO.)James Watt and the Steam Engine
Author: Henry Winram DickinsonPublisher:
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Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Painting with Fire
Author: Matthew C. HunterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639025X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility became central to the ambitious paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, premier portraitist and first president of Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. Valued by some critics for changing in time (and thus, for prompting intellectual reflection on the nature of time), Reynolds’s unstable chemistry also prompted new techniques of chemical replication among Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and other leading industrialists. In turn, those replicas of chemically decaying academic paintings were rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century and claimed as origin points in the history of photography. Tracing the long arc of chemically produced and reproduced art from the 1670s through the 1860s, the book reconsiders early photography by situating it in relationship to Reynolds’s replicated paintings and the literal engines of British industry. By following the chemicals, Painting with Fire remaps familiar stories about academic painting and pictorial experiment amid the industrialization of chemical knowledge.
Book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Writings on British History
Author: The Lunar Society
Author: Birmingham (England). University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
List of Accessions to the Library
Author: Science Museum (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Industrial Archaeology and Industrial History of the English Midlands
Author: John GreenwoodPublisher:
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Category : Industrial archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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