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Downstream exhibition

This research guide was created to compliment the Science History Institute's exhibition Downstream.

About Downstream: www.sciencehistory.org/downstream

Engraving of 19th century water testing apparatus.

Hygrometer; gasometers; mephitic water apparatus

Plate 5 from Dictionary of Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus, 1824.

Allegorical illustration of water in an Art Nouveau style.

Allegorical illustration of water. From the chemical catalog for the Grasselli Chemical Company in Cleveland, Ohio.

Sepia toned photograph of three rows of water jugs, made of glass, or wicker, or clay. Each has a tag.

Water samples at Dearborn laboratory facility, 1934.

Photograph of woman standing in a well-lit cave with stalactites and stalagmites.

"Hard Water" Fairyland...Hot Water Hazard! Advertisement for Dowell solvents 1950-Nov-04

Black and white photograph of a large analytical instrument from approximately the mid- 20th century.

Beckman Water Quality System

Illustration in a child's science book of 3 fairies representing the element of water by one being hydrogen and two fairies being oxygen.

Fairy Picture of Water

Illustration of water represented by three fairies, two of which are oxygen and one is hydrogen. From Fairy Land of Chemistry: Explorations in the World of Atoms, by Lucy Rider Meyer, 1887.

Digitized Collections

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Mineral Waters or Balneology

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Balneology

Hydrotherapy

Mineral Waters

Harrogate and its resources : chemical analysis of its medicinal waters; report addressed to the chairman of the Harrogate Water Committee
Author: A.W. Hofmann.
London: S. Galon, 1854.
Memoria mineralogico-chimica: sopra l'acqua minerale di civillina
Author: Giovanni Catullo
Verona: Dalla Tipografia Ramanzini, 1819.
Guide to the Chalybeate Spring of Thetford
Author: Friedrich Accum
London : Sold by T. Boys [etc.], 1819.
An analysis of the Bath water.
Author: Richard Phillips
London: Phillips & Fardon, 1806.
An account of the neutral saline waters recently discovered at Hampstead: with chemical experiments on their component parts, observations on their medicinal applications and effects in certain diseases, and on the different modes of bathing, as an auxil
Author: Thomas Goodwin
London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Murray and by J. and J. Richardson, 1804.
Anleitung zum Gebrauche des Egerbrunnens, oder Franzensbades.
Author: F. A. Reuss
Prag, 1794.
A methodical synopsis of mineral waters : comprehending the most celebrated medicinal waters, both cold and hot, of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Italy, and several other parts of the world
Author: John Rutty
London: Printed for William Johnston, 1757.
An essay on waters: in three parts. Treating, I. Of simple waters. II. Of cold, medicated waters. III. Of natural baths
Author: Charles Lucas
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1756.
An inquiry into the medicinal qualities and effects of the aerated alkaline water : illustrated by experiments and cases
Author: John Montcreiff
Edinburgh : Printed for William Creech, 1794.
My water-cure. Tested for more than 35 years and published for the cure of diseases and the preservation of health.
Author: Sebastian Kneipp
Kempton, Bavaria, J. Kœsel, 1892.