Measuring Collection (page 3)

The Lower Koettlitz Glacier, 1911, (1913). Artist: Frank Debenham
The Lower Koettlitz Glacier, 1911, (1913). Camp in pinnacled ice at mouth of Koettlitz Glacier, geologist Raymond Priestley takes a reading from a piece of scientific equipment on a tripod

Dr. Wilson Watching the First Rays of Sunlight Being Recorded, c1911, (1913)
Dr. Wilson Watching the First Rays of Sunlight Being Recorded After the Long Winter Night, c1911, (1913). The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

Lieut. Pennell with a Prismatic Compass, December 1910, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Lieut. Pennell with a Prismatic Compass, December 1910, (1913). Lieutenant Harry Pennell (1882-1916) was responsible for the first sighting of Oates Coast, and named it after Captain Lawrence Oates

Dr. Wilson and Lieut. Bowers Reading The Ramp Thermometer, c1911, (1913). Artist
Dr. Wilson and Lieut. Bowers Reading The Ramp Thermometer in the Winter Night, - 40° Fahr. (A flashlight photograph), c1911, (1913)

Dr. Simpson at the Unifilar Magnetometer, 1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Dr. Simpson at the Unifilar Magnetometer, 1911, (1913). Meteorologist George Simpson (1878-1965) took detailed measurements in order to predict the best possible conditions for Scotts journey to

Birdie Bowers Reading The Thermometer on the Ramp, June 6th, 1911, (1913). Artist
Birdie Bowers Reading The Thermometer on the Ramp, June 6th, 1911, (1913). Lieutenant Henry Birdie Bowers (1883-1912) died on the way back from the South Pole with Scott and Wilson

Travelling 14 Miles Up In The Stratosphere, 1935
Travelling 14 Miles Up In The Stratosphere, . From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

How A Ships Captain Uses The Sextant, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Lieut. E. R. G. R. Evans Surveying With The Four-Inch Theodolite, October 1911, (1913)
Lieut. E. R. G. R. Evans Surveying With The Four-Inch Theodolite Which Was Used To Locate The South Pole, October 1911, (1913)

The Ladys Tailor (King Henry IV - Second Part), c1870. Artist: Charles W Sharpe
The Ladys Tailor (King Henry IV - Second Part), c1870. From The Works of Shakspere, by Charles Knight. [Virtue & Co. Limited, London, c1870]

Archaeologist Bernardino Drovetti measuring a colossal head in the Egyptian desert, 1819
Bernardino Drovetti measuring a colossal head in the Egyptian desert, 1819. Drovetti (1776-1852) and his followers using a plumb line to measure the head

Improvised sounding tackle, Antarctica, 1911-1912. Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving at the Pole on 14th December 1911

The Ancient of Days, 1793. Artist: William Blake
The Ancient of Days, 1793. From Europe a Prophecy by William Blake (1757-1827). Urizen measuring out the material world; an allegory of the French Revolution

An engineer at work at the Edgar Allen Steel Foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. An engineer using a precision depth guage to quality check a giant magnet casting

Checking the temperature of molten steel, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist
Checking the temperature of molten steel, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1964. To enable the temperature of molten steel to be taken, an immersion pyrometer has to be used

The British engineer, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
The British engineer, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. The epitome of the British engineer from a bygone age. This photograph

Apprentice with microscope (testing the hardness of pistons), 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Apprentice with microscope (testing the hardness of pistons), 1941. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Measuring airscrew blades, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Measuring airscrew blades, 1941. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Going to the Scale, 1911. From British Sports and Sportsmen Part 1. [British Sports and Sportsmen, London, 1911]

Don t ee Tipty Toe, c1870, (c1915). Artist: John Morgan
Don t ee Tipty Toe, c1870, (c1915). From Famous Pictures of the World, c1900

A Chronometer-Observation with the Theodolite, c1893-1896, (1897). From Farthest North, Vol. 1 by Fridtjof Nansen. [Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1897]

A Rakes Progress; scene I, 1735. Artist: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress ; scene I, 1734. Tom Rakewell is taking possession of his miserly fathers effects. Kneeling beside him is a tailor measuring him up for a new set of clothes

Gauging wine casks at London Docks, c1900 (1901). From Living London, Vol. 1, edited by George R. Sims. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1901]

The Roof of the Great Hall Westminster, (1924), 1937
The Roof of the Great Hall Westminster, 1924. Painting by Salisbury depicting Richard II and Hugh Herland inspecting work on the Great Roof of Westminster Hall in 1397. From The Connoisseur, 1937

Albert Borlase Armitage, Scottish polar explorer, c1894-c1897 (1899). Artist: Frederick George Jackson
Albert Borlase Armitage, Scottish polar explorer, c1894-c1897 (1899). Armitage (1864-1943) using a sextant while on the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz-Josef Land in the Arctic

Anemometer at the Kew Observatory, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures, Vol III, Virtue and Co, City Road and Ivy Lane, London, 1866

Wholesale dealers, 15th century (1849). Artist: Thurwanger Freres
Wholesale dealers, 15th century (1849). Stained glass from the Cathedral of Tournai. From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, Ferdinand Sere and A Rivaud, Volume III (Paris, 1849)

The Nilometer (measurer of inundations) at the first cataract, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Nilometer (measurer of inundations) at the first cataract, Egypt, 1905. On the southeast side of Elephantine Island is this interesting device for measuring the inundations

Fabric Shop, (1885). Artist: Bonnardot
Fabric Shop, (1885). Illustration from 18th Century Institutions, Usages And Costumes, France 1700-1789, by Paul Lacroix, (Paris, 1885)

Allegory of Mathematics, early 17th century. Artist: Bernardo Strozzi
Allegory of Mathematics, early 17th century. Strozzi, Bernardo (1581-1644). Found in the collection of the Regional Art Museum, Kaluga

The French army buying horses, 1904. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 29th May 1904

Front page of Architectura Curiosa Nova, 1664. Artist: Georg Andreas Bockler
Front page of Architectura Curiosa Nova, 1664. Elaborate designs for Baroque fountains in public squares and private country gardens in the French, German

Roman Tools

Method of measuring angles with a cross-staff, 1636. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626) was an English mathematician and astronomer who invented many measuring instruments which bear his name; Gunters Chain

Measuring the distance from ship to shore, using a quadrant marked with shadow-scales, 1598. From L usa della squadra mobile by Ottavius Fabri. (Venice, 1598)

Measuring the altitude of the Sun, 1539. From Cosmographia by Peter Apian. (Antwerp, 1539)

Title page of The Description and Use of the Sector by Edmund Gunter, 1636. It shows mariners holding various navigational instruments, including a sector and a cross-staff at the top

Cross-staffs used for surveying, 1551. In this case they are being used to measure the width of a river by triangulation. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian Munster. (Basel, 1551)

Using a cross-staff to measure the height of a tower, 1617-1619. From Utriusque cosmi...historia by Robert Fludd. (Oppenheim, 1617-1619)

Measuring the distance of an inaccessible object by triangulation using a hinged staff, 1617-1619. From Utriusque cosmi...historia by Robert Fludd. (Oppenheim, 1617-1619)

Finding the angular distance between two edges of a wood using a cross-staff, 1617-1619. From Utriusque cosmi...historia by Robert Fludd. (Oppenheim, 1617-1619)

Surveying and timekeeping, 1551. On the left are various different kinds of sundial and a clock with a single arm. On the right a survey is being made of the height of the tower, using quadrants

Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian Munster. (Basel, 1551)

Mr O Brien, the Irish Giant, the Tallest Man in the Known World, 1803. Artist: John Kay
Mr O Brien, the Irish Giant, the Tallest Man in the Known World, 1803. Patrick O Brien (c1765-1804), the Irish giant, being measured for a suit by an Edinburgh tailor

Jean Baptiste Biot and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French scientists, 1804 (1870). Biot (1774-1864) and Gay-Lussac (1778-1850)

Remains of a Nilometer, an ancient device for measuring the annual inundation of the Nile, c1885. The annual flooding of the Nile was always vitally important to Egypt as it governed the fertility of

A Little Bigger, 1791. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
A Little Bigger, 1791. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Nilometer on the island of Roda, Cairo, Egypt, c1895. The annual flooding of the Nile was historically vitally important to Egypt because it governed the fertility of the soil

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