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View full screenColumbian printing press of cast iron, designed by George E. Clymer around 1812 to print newspapers, named after Columbia, the female personification of America, with large counter weight in the shape of the American eagle, bought from D. and J. Greig by the museum for use in its own print shop and used until 1964, made by D. and J. Greig of Edinburgh, c. 1865
T.1964.1
Industry and Commerce : Communications
D. and J. Greig
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe
c. 1865
Cast iron
Inventor: Clymer, George E., 1754 - 1834
Owner and user: Industrial Museum of Scotland
Mercury
Columbia
Grand Gallery (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
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Iceland spar, large cleavage rhomb of the trigonal crystal calcite, from which Nicol prisms are made
Calcite - pale orange-pink to colourless crystals - associated with hematite on matrix - from Waygate Shaft, Straitsteps Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire
Calcite - chalk white crystal aggregates pseudomorph after witherite - from Liverick Vein from a cross cut between High Raise and Trebar Veins, Haggs Mine, Allenheads, Northumberland, England
Calcite vein - a small polished slab - with large, interlocking crystals in black, granular host rock - locality unknown
Calcite - a small polished slab - colourless translucent, with single narrow orange band - locality unknown
Calcite - large white dog tooth spar crystals - on a white granular base - from the New Glencrieff vein, Wanlockhead Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire
Calcite - large white dog tooth spar crystals - associated with white well-formed quartz crystals - from the New Glencrieff vein, Wanlockhead Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire
Calcite - a group of pink and grey translucent crystals showing parallel growth - from New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire
Calcite - a group of white to clear double terminated crystals on black sphalerite - from New Glencrieff Vein, Wanlockhead Mine, Dumfriesshire
Calcite - a group of colourless crystals, the tips of some are grey with inclusions and several tiny pyrite crystals scattered over - from New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire
Calcite - two white to pale grey double terminated crystals - one 4cm, the other 2.5cm - on dolomite crystals on quartz matrix - from New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire
Calcite, pseudomorphous after an unknown cubic mineral possibly fluorite associated with xonotlite? - from Binhill Quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Calcite pseudomorphous after an unknown cubic mineral possibly fluorite - from Binhill Quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Calcite, white crystalline mineral pseudomorphous after an unknown cubic mineral (possibly fluorite) - from Binhill Quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
Calcite - translucent pale brown to white mainly hexagonal lamellar crystals, form a o - from Strontian, Argyll
Calcite - a group of translucent, milky prismatic crystals on matrix - some faces of one crystal have been annotated to show forms ξ, γ, m, ω, and v after Dana (6th edition) - from Strontian, Argyll