Acid Collection

Slice of Canyon Diablo meteorite
Iron meteorites, when sliced open and etched with acid, typically show a distinctive criss-cross pattern called a Widmanstatten pattern. This slice is 15cm across

Porthgain lime workings, Pembrokeshire, West Wales
View of Porthgain lime workings on the Pembrokeshire coast, West Wales. Limestone was shipped in from South Pembrokeshire to produce lime

Suffragette Militant Attack on Golf Course. A Suffragette under cover of darkness, pours acid on the golf course, unaware shes being watched

The Murchison CM2 carbonaceous chondrite
Murchison fell in September 1969, in Victoria, Australia. It is rich in indigenous (i.e. not terrestrial contaminant) amino acids and other organic molecules

Victoria College, Alexandria - Chemistry Laboratory
Part of the Chemistry Laboratory at the Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt

From Cellar to Bar
How the beer gets from the barrels in the cellar to the beer-pull on the bar counter, thanks to carbonic acid gas in Hermann- Lachapelles apparatus

Forsyth, Jones and Co Advertisement
An advertisement for Forsyth, Jones and Co. Ltd. based at 14, Southampton Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.2. Selling a product called Genzyme a fertilizer rich in nitrates

Muffled against the deadly bacilli in Manchuria, a doctor fully masked and a sanitary official, wearing a lint mask soaked in carbolic acid. Date: 1911

Acid weed or mermaids hair, Desmarestia dresnayi. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Three-spined stickleback and Atlantic mackerel
Three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus 1, and Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus 2. Gasterosteo o Spinarella piccola, Maccarello comune

Flowery lichen, Usnea florida (Lichen floridus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Oarweed, Laminaria digitata, Laminaire digitee. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Bergenia ciliata (Coarse-fringed Indian saxifrage, Saxifraga thysanodes). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical

Lactart (Milk Acid) - relieves fevers, headache etc
Lactart (Milk Acid) - relieves fevers, headache, wakefulness, nervous depression and urinary troubles. Produced by Avery Lactate Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Field of Chumbera Nopal Cactus (Prickly Pear) at Las Palmas, Cran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Insects are gathered off of the cactus they grow up in

Eugene Turpin, inventor of turpinite, WW1
Eugene Turpin, French inventor and chemist who in 1884, first discovered melinite (picric acid) which produced the worlds first explosive shells

DNA. Deoxyribonucleic acid, model

Advert for Carbolic smoke ball 1892
Carbolic smoke ball, Hay Fever positively cured and prevented. Testimonials include It acted like magic! It is simply invaluable!. 1892

Charles Balloon Leaves
The unmanned balloon with inflammable Air drawn from Iron by a Vitriolic Acid soars from the Champ de Mars, Paris, to Gonzesse where it will be attacked by peasants. Date: 27 August 1783

Charles Balloon Soars
The unmanned balloon with inflammable Air drawn from Iron by a Vitriolic Acid rises from the Champ de Mars, Paris : landing at Gonzesse it will be attacked by peasants. Date: 27 August 1783

Inflating Charles Ballon
The balloon is filled with inflammable Air drawn from Iron by means of a Vitriolic Acid; it will make an unmanned flight from the Champ de Mars to Gonzesse. Date: 27 August 1783

From Barrel to Bar
How the beer gets from the barrels in the cellar to the taps in the bar, thanks to carbonic acid gas in Hermann- Lachapelles apparatus Date: circa 1880

Trade card, Horsfords Acid Phosphate
Trade card for Horsfords Acid Phosphate, for mental and physical exhaustion, dyspepsia, etc, manufactured by Rumford Chemical Works of Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Date: circa late 19th century

Suffragette Militant Pillar Box Acid Attack. An item of post damaged in a militant suffragette attack on a pillar box. The letter was partially burnt by acid on 16th April 1913, in Nottingham

Anti-Suffrage Army of Militants. Extreme German view of the English Army of Militant Suffragettes with their weapons of war - bombs, guns, axes, acid and scissors. Date: circa 1913

By-products developed from coal by G. H. Davis
The enormous importance of coal as the basic element in vital war manufactures. A diagrammatic drawing showing a great variety of by-products developed from coal. Date: 1944

Tatler front cover, March 1964
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model posing in a heavily-beaded jacket with fluted sleeves, by Marc Bohan at Christian Dior

Advertisement for Horsfords Acid Phosphate
Horsfords Acid Phosphate, for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia. It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only. Rumford Chemical works

Eastmanosteus, Gogo fish
The Gogo fish, Eastmanosteus, was one of the first ever fossils extracted using acid

Urtica dioica, stinging nettle
A herb which has various medicinal benefits and produces tiny hairs that sting when in contact with skin due to the presence of histamine and formic acid

Silicified brachiopod
This specimen shows spiral supports for the brachiopod feeding system. Preserved inside are one of the valves, and have been etched out with acid

LCC-LFB Early motorised fire engine
This machine was one of the early self-propelled petrol motor fire engines used by the LFB. It was made by Merryweather and Sons Limited

Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn. Date 1939 Sept

The Great Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion (4 / 4)
Disaster at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 6th December 1917, when a French cargo ship, the SS Mont-Blanc caught fire in the harbour and drifted inland

The Great Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion (2 / 4)
Disaster at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 6th December 1917, when a French cargo ship, the SS Mont-Blanc caught fire in the harbour and drifted inland

The Great Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion (1 / 4)
Disaster at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 6th December 1917, when a French cargo ship, the SS Mont-Blanc caught fire in the harbour and drifted inland

The Great Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion (3 / 4)
Disaster at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 6th December 1917, when a French cargo ship, the SS Mont-Blanc caught fire in the harbour and drifted inland

Phosphate Mining
Sacks of phosphate, the salt of phosphoric acid, mined in Sfax, Tunisia, North Africa

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