Monochromatic lamps and filtered spectra Sir John Musgrave and East India Dock

and East India Dock

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson sits in the dugout with coaching staff during the League Division One match against Charlton Athletic at The Valley ground

Eighteen swan marks issued by the Crown to landowners in the county of Lincolnshire

Architectural details from the Promoter Life Insurance Company's offices

others carry trays of food

Monochromatic lamps and filtered spectra Sir John Musgrave and East India DockFigures showing monochromatic lamps fuelled by alcohol diluted in water to produce a yellow flame (figures 1 3), with views of the effects on the spectrum created by filtering light through various types of coloured glass (figure 4 numbers 1 16). Plate 28 from the paper 'Description of a monochromatic lamp for microscopical purposes, &c. with remarks on the absorption of the prismatic rays by coloured media.', by David Brewster, originally published