The modern cabinet of arts : a series of entertaining experiments in various branches of science, numerous valuable recipes, and useful facts
A compiled 1842 London miscellany of scientific experiments, recipes and useful facts, put together by T. C. Thornton for a general reader interested in home science. Its one plate is a page of small engraved apparatus: a locomotive engine, an air pump, a hydrometer, an electrical machine, a barometer and a calorimeter, each labelled and set out in a grid. A designer could take from it the tidy, labelled-diagram layout of Victorian technical instruction and the dense, orderly grid of separate objects.
