Apparatus for inflating animal lungs soft machine Holywell Street

Holywell Street

Imports of American meat were growing rapidly and it was hoped that the increasing competition would force the nation's butchers to reduce their inflated prices

Head and shoulders portrait of Samuel Hawkesley Burbury

Part of the ruins of St Bartholomew's Priory

December 20

Apparatus for inflating animal lungs soft machine Holywell StreetPlate 4 from the paper 'On the elasticity of the lungs', by James Carson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 29 44. Scheme of a glass globe and tubing inserted into the windpipe of a sheep. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details and the note 'Explanatory Figure' has been pencilled through as a deletion. Original: ink on paper. 1819