Machine for sampling sea-water at depth Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Ray Galton and Alan Simpson

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson on tour for new ideas

and Disraeli on the right in boots with his rods slung across his back

Nobby Stiles refereeing a charity match at Oswestry

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) married his mistress

Machine for sampling sea-water at depth Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Ray Galton and Alan SimpsonPlate 11 from the paper 'On the specific gravity, and the temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline content', by Alexander Marcet, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 109 (1819), pp. 161 208. The instrument has twintrapdoors within a weighted brass cylinder. Original: pencil on paper. 1819