Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) Finish:10-pack Cobb set the Brooklands Outer

Cobb set the Brooklands Outer Circuit lap record of 143

John Fitzpatrick

Tyburn turnpike was situated at the junction of what is now Bayswater Road and Oxford Street

designed by Joseph Cubitt

Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) Finish:10-pack Cobb set the Brooklands OuterBoth pictures on this plate are part of Johann Rudolf Glauber's treatise on the 'Continuation of Miraculum Mundi'. The upper image depicts 'A Gift offered to all diligent Physicians The manner of concentrating and amending of Metals by Nitre' (the distilling vessel is designed as 'a Man made of Iron, having two noses on his head'). The lower picture shows the furnace used in 'a Gift presented to rich Merchants', again involving the use of nitre