Lecturing Collection

Lecturing naval cooks, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Lecturing naval cooks, between c1915 and 1918. Students listening to teachers at the New York Cooking School, 126 East 59th Street. The school trained soldiers to cook for the Navy during World War I.

Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, before H.R.H. Prince Albert, the Prince of Wal Creator: Unknown
Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, before H.R.H. Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred - from a sketch by Alexander Blaikley

Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institute... 1856, (1901). Creator: Unknown
Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institute before the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, 1856, (1901). Michael Faraday (1791-1867) giving a lecture attended by Prince Albert and his son

Professor Steffens rouses his audience to fight for freedom, 8 February 1813, (1936). Professor Steffens Begeistert Seine Zuhorer Fur Den Freiheitskrieg, 8 Februar 1813

W. A. A. F. Officer Lectures, c1943. Creator: Cecil Beaton
W.A.A.F. Officer Lectures, c1943. The Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF), whose members were referred to as WaFs, was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during World War II

The property tax for ever!!!, 1816. Artist
The property tax for ever!!!, 1816. A scene in the Guildhall. Alderman John Atkins is haranguing the audience on the matter of the income tax. Sir William Curtis is wearing sailors trousers

Sons of harmony - scene Chandois Street, 1801. Members of a club (possibly The Brilliants ) sitting, asleep, beside a table bearing lighted candles, bottle, glasses and a pipe

The Child Jesus in the Temple, 19th century. Artist: Corbould Family
The Child Jesus in the Temple, 19th century

Mr. Jorrockss Lecture on Unting, 1854. Artist: John Leech
Mr. Jorrockss Lecture on Unting, 1854. From Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrockss Hunt, by Robert Smith Surtees. [Bradbury and Evans, London, 1854]

Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, London, 1835 (20th century). Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

Amalric of Bena teaching, c1200, (1375-1379). In 1204, the University of Paris condemned the doctrines of Amalric of Bena (or Amalric of Chartres) as heretical

Heinrich Schliemann lecturing in London, 1877. German archaeologist Schliemann (1822-1890), lecturing on his excavations at Mycenae in Greece during 1876 to the Society of Antiquaries in their rooms

Prehistoric Peeps: A Night Lecture on Evolution, 1894. Artist: Edward Tennyson Reed
Prehistoric Peeps: A Night Lecture on Evolution, 1894. Satirical cartoon showing creatures halfway between men and monkeys listening to a lecture. The lectern is in the form of a pteradoctyl

Guillaume Francois Rouelle, 18th century French chemist, 1874. Antoine Lavoisiers teacher and Professor (demonstrateur) at the Jardin du Roi, Paris

John Leslie (1766-1832), Scottish natural philosopher and physicist, lecturing, 19th century
John Leslie, Scottish natural philosopher and physicist, lecturing, 19th century. Leslie (1766-1832) was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh in 1805 and of Natural Philosophy in 1819

John Tyndall lecturing on electromagnetism at the Royal Institution, London. May 1870. Irish-born British physicist Tyndall (1820-1893)

Michael Faraday lecturing on electricity and magnetism, Royal Institution, London, 1846
Michael Faraday lecturing on electricity and magnetism, Royal Institution, London, 23 January 1846. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

Eadweard James Muybridge, British-American photography pioneer, 1889. Muybridge lecturing at the Royal Society in London. After emigrating to America in 1852

Joseph Black, Scottish chemist, 1787. Artist: John Kay
Joseph Black, Scottish chemist, 1787. Black (1728-1799), who discovered carbon dioxide and bicarbonates and formulated the theory of latent heat, lecturing at Glasgow in 1787

Michael Faraday, British physicist and chemist, 1881. Top left: reading when apprenticed to Riebau as a bookbinder; top right; experimenting; bottom

William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, 1908. Artist: Spy
William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, 1908. Ramsay (1852-1916) discovered four of the inert gases, Neon, Argon, Krypton and Xenon, for which he won the the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1904

John Tyndall, Irish-born British physicist, 1872. Tyndall (1820-1893) was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, London in 1854

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, British scientist, 1899. Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919) isolated the element Argon, one of the noble (inert) gases

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