On the power of metals and other solids to induce the combination of gaseous bodies
Faraday's 1834 paper on metals and solids inducing gases to combine, published in London by the Royal Society for a scientific readership. Its plates are precise line engravings by James Basire: the first a sheet of laboratory apparatus drawn in fine outline, the second a crisp armillary sphere held up by a kneeling figure, with clean linework a designer could borrow for technical diagrams.
