Gases Collection

Sir William Ramsay, Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Spanish Civil War. Instruccions on how to deal with gases, announced by Consejo de Sanidad de Guerra (War Council of Health)

Civilians crowding around a gas-detector table, Sept 1939
Four people inspecting a new gas-detector table, set up to indicate a gas attack shortly after the outbreak of war. The table was covered with a paint that changed colour in the presence of mustard

Woulfes apparatus for washing gases or saturating liquids. Peter Woulfe (1727-1803) was an Irish chemist, mineralogist and alchemist

Fumarole or sulphuric gases at Solfatara
Fumarole or sulphuric gases escaping from Solfatara volcano near Naples. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.B. Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Volcanic activity in Italy, 18th century
Fumarole or sulphuric gases escaping from Solfatara volcano near Naples 1, and the eruption of the volcano on Stromboli island, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.B

Sir William Ramsey (1852 - 1916), Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904

Even back in the 1960s, car exhaust pipes caused air pollution! Date: 1960s

John Dalton, English chemist and physicist
John Dalton (1766-1844), English chemist, meteorologist and physicist, formulator of Daltons Law of Partial Pressures concerning gases in water

LCC-LFB Southwarks Emergency Tender and crew
Southwarks Emergency Tender and crew. By the 1920s emergency tenders were developing into far more that just a carrier of firefighters with breathing apparatus and lighting at incidents

German poison- gas 1915
Diagrams of various kinds of apparatus employed by Germans. 1915

Ghostly green cloud gas rolling towards the trench 1915
Heavy green gas clouds traveling slowly from the German lines rolled into the trenches. Soldiers choking from the fumes covering their faces with their hands and scarves. Date: 1915

Gunners prepared to face the gas 1916
French gunners wearing masks and helmets against the asphyxiating gases sometimes released far from the battlefront. 1916

Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, WW1
Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, showing a French soldier standing in a hole and holding his nose. He says: They re not dead yet, but they already stink! Date: 1915

Protection against noxious vapour 1917
Britsih troops practice advancing through smoke and adjusting their masks. Date: 1917

Balloon being filled with gas
Balloon in a yard, being filled with gas from a barrel in preparation for flight. Date: late 18th century

Exhaust Fumes
Even back in the 1960s, car exhaust pipes caused air pollution! Date: 1960s

Ansells Fire-Damp Indicator, 1880
Engraving showing the instrument, designed by Ansell, for the detection of fire-damp in underground mines, 1880. If fire-damp gases built up then the risk of explosion increased

The Aerophore Breathing Apparatus, 1874
Engraving of the Aerophore Breathing Apparatus, invented by the French engineer M. Denayrouze, 1874. Denayrouze designed this compressed air breathing machine for use in exploring mines full of

Westminster Bridge lit by lime light
Westminster Bridge shown lit by lime light as crowds of people and horse-drawn carriages cross. Lime light was so intense it could be seen 95 miles away

George Stephenson experimenting with the safety lamp in a mi
Illustration of George Stephenson (1781-1848) experimenting with his safety lamp in a mine. It was designed by Stephenson in 1815, around the same time as Humphrey Davy invented a similar lamp

The New Darracq motor car engine
A unique (and unsuccessful) engine with a single rotating cylindrical sleeve to induct and remove gases. It should have been smooth and silent but was perhaps too wacky to succeed

Jan Baptista Van Helmont
JAN BAPTISTA VAN HELMONT Flemish chemist, invented the word gas, proposed interesting theories about gases and the digestive process

Electric Discharges / Gas
Examples of electric discharges in rarified gases

Electric Arc / 1870
Examples of the electric arc in rarified gases

Robert Boyle / Bird
ROBERT BOYLE Irish scientist, propounder of Boyles Law respecting gases

Robert Boyle / Chapman
ROBERT BOYLE Irish scientist, propounder of Boyles Law respecting gases

Robert Boyle / Rousseau
ROBERT BOYLE Irish scientist, propounder of Boyles Law respecting gases

Robert Boyle / Darton
ROBERT BOYLE Irish scientist, propounder of Boyles Law respecting gases

Robert Boyle / Holl
ROBERT BOYLE Irish scientist, propounder of Boyles Law respecting gases

PRITCHARDs MAGIC BOX
Young William Pritchard and his invention, the Magic Box, which is capable of detecting dangerous gases and thus saving 300 lives a year down Great Britains mines

Robert Boyle / Kerseboom
ROBERT BOYLE Irish scientist, propounder of Boyles Law respecting gases

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