Title
The wonders of science
Caption
Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans, studying the Chaillot fire pump system (invented by the Périer brothers), two years before inventing the Pyroscaphe, the first steamboat.
1781.
Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.
Date
1867
Credit line
Photo12
Reference
COM23A00_365
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
147,1Mb (10,2Mb) / 22,4in x 25,5in / 6729 x 7642 (300dpi)