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Athanor or 'Slow Harry', a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683.
AR925255 
Athanor or 'Slow Harry', a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683.
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Distillation of Nitric Acid, 1683.
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Furnace for processes where protracted heat required, such as cementation, 1580.
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Washing ore to extract gold, 1683.
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Crystallization of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.
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Smelting of copper, 1683.
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Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.
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Blast furnaces, 1683.
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Washing ore to extract gold, 1683.
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Refining copper using the 'Hungarian' process, 1683.
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Preparation of copper and silver to be alloyed for production of coins, 1683.
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Assayer testing samples of gold and silver, 1683.
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Production of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.
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Separating lead from silver or gold in a cupellation furnace, 1556.
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Lab tachnician using a table top test furnace, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Artist: Michael Walters
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Alchemical laboratory showing various forms of furnace and vessels, 1652.
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Blast furnace for smelting iron ore, 1556.
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Smelting of ores (gold, silver, copper and lead), 1556.
AR922616 
Stamp for breaking copper cupellation cakes for further refining, 1556.
AR912761 
Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683. 
Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683. 1) Athanor or 'Slow Harry', a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature. 2,2) Side furnaces with receivers on stools, (4,4). On the right of the top shelf is a glass vessel shaped like an Hermetic vase. From a 1683 English edition of Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt by Lazarus Ercker. (Prague, 1574). 
Unique Identifier AR925262 
Type Image 
Purpose Public 
Size 3689px × 4732px 
Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY 
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