The panorama of science and art : embracing the sciences of aerostation, agriculture and gardening, architecture, astronomy, chemistry, electricity, galvanism, hydrostatics and hydraulics, magnetism, mechanics, optics, and pneumatics : the arts of building, brewing, bleaching ... the methods of working in wood and metal ... and a miscellaneous selection of interesting and useful processes and experiments
The Panorama of Science and Art is an encyclopedic popular compendium of science, mechanics and crafts compiled by James Smith and published in Liverpool in 1815 for general readers and tradesmen. Its pictures are crisp, plate-numbered black-and-white engravings of apparatus: electrical machines, hydraulic pumps, pneumatic jars and mechanical devices drawn in clean outline with lettered keys, offering designers precise, diagram-like linework and labelled schematic layouts.
