Element Collection (page 3)

Earth, from The Four Elements, 1738-49. Creator: Pierre Alexandre Aveline
Earth, from The Four Elements, 1738-49

Water, from The Four Elements, 1738-49. Creator: Pierre Alexandre Aveline
Water, from The Four Elements, 1738-49

Air, from The Four Elements, 1738-49. Creator: Pierre Alexandre Aveline
Air, from The Four Elements, 1738-49

Aqua in a Decorative Border with Sea Creatures, from a Series of Circular Designs with the Four Elements, 1590-1612

Aer in a Decorative Border with Birds, from a Series of Circular Designs with the Four Elements, 1590-1612

Philosophy Enthroned, mid-16th century. Creator: Virgil Solis
Philosophy Enthroned, mid-16th century

Mud-Springs, 1872. Creator: John J. Harley
Mud-Springs, 1872. Geothermal feature in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Below the falls there is an extensive area covered with the deposits which extend from the south side of Mount

Tragedy at the bottom of a well, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Tragedy at the bottom of a well, 1932. Une Tragedie au Fond d un Puits. A well-digger was trapped in a landslide while drilling

Moissan, c1893. Creator: Unknown
Moissan, c1893. Portrait of Ferdinand Moissan (1852-1907), French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds

Oxygen Drill in Camp, c1918-c1939. Creator: Unknown
Oxygen Drill in Camp, c1918-c1939. From an album of postcards

Madame Curie, c1900, (1914). Creator: Unknown
Madame Curie, c1900, (1914). Portrait of Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934). She and her husband Pierre were two of the first people to work on radioactivity

Brown Sulphur Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Brown Sulphur Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA, c1900. There are thought to be about 1, 000 geothermal features in Yellowstone, including geyser basins, hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles

The Black Growler, Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, Montana, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
The Black Growler, Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, Montana, USA, c1900. The Black Growler Steam Vent has measured 93 to 138 degrees C

Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone Park, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone Park, USA, c1900. There are thought to be about 1, 000 geothermal features in Yellowstone, including geyser basins, hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles

Driving the Tunnel for the Waterloo and City Railway, (c1897). Artist: E&S Woodbury
Driving the Tunnel for the Waterloo and City Railway, (c1897). Scene underground during excavations for Londons transport system. The illustration represents the shield which protects the excavators

Erebus Eruption... Showing upper air currents, 14 June 1908, (1909)
Erebus Eruption, June 14th 1908, 3.45 p.m. Showing upper air currents, (1909). Diagram showing the volcano Erebus erupting

Harrogate: The Bog Gardens Sulphur Well, c1896. Artist: Frith & Co
Harrogate: The Bog Gardens Sulphur Well, c1896. From Pictorial England and Wales. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, c1896]

Bulkhead to retain compressed air in Rotherhithe Tunnel, London, October 1906
Bulkhead to retain compressed air in the Rotherhithe Tunnel, London, October 1906. Viewed from the inside with workmen standing by hatches

The German airship Hindenburg blows up, Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA, 6 May 1937. The passenger airship Hindenburg was destroyed when it caught fire while mooring

Oxygen control panel at the Park gate Iron & Steel Co, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964

Entrance to a sulphur spring, Ischia, Italy, 1927. Artist: Eugen Poppel
Entrance to a sulphur spring, Ischia, Italy, 1927.From Italien in Bildern, by Eugen Poppel [August Scherl, Berlin, 1927]

View of the sulphur mines, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, 1927. Artist: Eugen Poppel
View of the sulphur mines, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, 1927. Sulphur and potash were mined at Agrigento on the southern coast of Sicily from Minoan times until the 1970s

M. and Mme Curie in the garden of their Paris house, c1902, (1903). Artist: Paris Ellis
M. and Mme Curie in the garden of their Paris house, c1902, (1903). Marie Curie (1867-1934) holding her daughter Irene (1897-1956), with her husband Pierre (1859-1906)

Cleaning air by electricity, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1917. Marie (1867-1934) and her husband Pierre Curie continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel

The first photograph of a diver under water, late 19th century, (c1920). Illustration from Hutchinsons Story of the British Nation, Volume IV, Walter Hutchinson, London, c1920s

The Most Mysterious Substance in Nature - Radium, 1903. Artist: Alfred Hugh Fisher
The Most Mysterious Substance in Nature - Radium, 1903. Experiments made in Paris by the discoverers, Pierre and Marie Curie

Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish-born French physicist, 1926. In 1898, Curie and her husband Pierre discovered two new elements, polonium and radium

Sir William Crookes (1832-1919), English chemist and physicist, 1926. In 1861, Crookes discovered a previously unknown element with a bright green emission line in its spectrum

Antoine Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, 19th century. Artist: CE Wagstaff
Antoine Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, 19th century. Among other achievements, Lavoisier (1743-1794) was one of the discoverers of oxygen, and established the laws of chemical combination

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist, 1848. Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) made balloon ascents to investigate terrestrial magnetism and composition

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussacs hot air balloon ascent, Paris, September 1804 (1900). On this flight, French chemist and physicist Gay-Lussac (1778-1850)

Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist, (c1924). In 1891, James Dewar (1842-1923) discovered a process to produce liquid oxygen in industrial quantities

Pierre Curie, French physicist, (c1924). Pierre Curie (1859-1906) was a pioneer in the study of crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity

Radium treatment to cure a nasal infection, France, c1947-1951
Radium treatment to cure a nasal infection, France, 20th century. Part of the Marshall Plan mercy mission. The Marshall Plan was a massive programme of US aid for the reconstruction of Europe after

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, 19th century French chemist and physicist, (1900). Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) made balloon ascents to investigate terrestrial magnetism and the composition

Mineralogy, extracting sulphur from pyrites, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777

Laboratory and chart, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

Reception of the Robert Brothers by the Prince of Ghistelles in 1784, (1887). Artist: Gaston Tissandier
Reception of the Robert Brothers by the Prince of Ghistelles in 1784, (1887). French balloonists Noel and Jean Robert, recieved by Philippe-Alexandre-Emmanuel-Francois-Joseph de Ghistelles at his

Maurice Berteaux, minister for the war in the Lebaudy airship, 3rd November 1905. A print from La Vie au Grand Air, 3rd November 1905

The conquest of the air at the Ambigu-Comique, 1900. A print from La Vie au Grand Air, 2nd December 1900

Pretty teacher!, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Pretty teacher!, 1799. Plate 68 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

Nicholas Lemery, French chemist, 1762. Lemery (1645-1715) was a pharmacist and lecturer in Paris. He wrote a textbook on chemistry and a treatise on the element antimony

Antoine Lavoisiers apparatus for weighing gases, 1789. The discoverer of oxygen, French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) is regarded as the founder of the modern science of chemistry

Antoine Lavoisiers apparatus for synthesizing water from hydrogen (left) and oxygen (right), 1881. The discoverer of oxygen

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist, demonstrating his discovery of oxygen, 1776 (1874). On the table in the right background of the picture is his calorimeter

Nicholas Lemery, French chemist, 1870. Lemery (1645-1715) was a pharmacist and lecturer in Paris. He wrote a textbook on chemistry and a treatise on the element antimony

Air, c1600. From the German National Museum, Nuremburg

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