Image Gallery
The slide collections of John Ackland and Jim Abrams are rich in their content, but some topics within the history of science and technology clearly took their imagination. Thus, in addition to their rather ecclectic image collecting, they also left some collections of slides coverin a particular topic in more detail.
Here we provide links to some overview pages of those subjects, as well as others that have been added to the databse The individual thumbnails on each overview page are linked to the full-sized images. For more information in the standard Imago format, choose the link at the bottom of each page.
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Baldwin Locomotives
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Images of trains from the 1881 Baldwin Locomotive Works Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives
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James Watt's
Steam Engines
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Images relating to the early development of the steam engine by James Watt
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| Stillman Drake Collection
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Stillman Drake, the formost Galileo Scholar left his world-class colleciton of books, prints, and manuscripts to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto.
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Gaspar Schott's
Technica Curiosa (1654)
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.gif) A collection of the plates of mechanical devices from Schott's impopratant work which popularized Von Guericke's and Boyle's work on pneumatics, as well as surveying various other topics, like hydraulics, automata, and clocks
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Otto von Guericke's
Magdeburg Hemispheres
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One of the seminal set of experiements on pneumatics, von Guericke showed that air pressure was a very stong force indeed.
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Robert Boyle's
Air Pump
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Robert Boyle's air pump, designed and built by Robert Hooke, provided the first large volume for low-pressure research.
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