"Scientific Researches! New
Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of
Air" by James Gillray, 1802.
In this lecture on nitrous oxide given at the Royal Institution, Sir
John Coxe Hippisley is being experimented upon by the lecturer,
believed to be Thomas Young. Humphrey Davy is depicted standing next to
Young operating the bellows.
Courtesy of Chemical Heritage Foundation. Gift of
Fisher Scientific International. Photograph by Gregory Tobias.
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