Oxford Science Archive Collection

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Train crossing Stockport viaduct on the London & North Western Railway, c1845

Four moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, 1979

The Engineer, 1867

James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor, 1833

The Whale, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

JJ Thomson, British nuclear physicist, 1898

Water! Water! Everywhere; and not a Drop to Drink, 1849

Tring cutting, London & Birmingham Railway, 17 June 1837 (1839). Artist: John Cooke Bourne

Oxford Science Archive Collection: Construction of the Kilsby Tunnel on the London & Birmingham Railway, 8 July 1839

Construction of the Kilsby Tunnel on the London & Birmingham Railway, 8 July 1839. Artist: John Cooke Bourne

Industrial polltion, Sheffield, Yorkshire, c1925

John Hunter, 1786. Artist: WO Geller

John Wood Approaching Bombay, c1850. Artist: Joseph Heard

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer, c1850s

Development of Mesmeric Science, 1883. Artist: George du Maurier

Interior of a coal mine, 1862

$Great Eastern on the stocks at Millwall on the Thames, 1857. View from the stern, showing the vessel in John Scott Russells (1808-1882) yard. Double-hulled, of all iron construction, and powered by four steam engines driving both paddle wheels and screw propeller, the Great Eastern was intended for the passenger trade between Britain and Australia and India. After a few troubled passenger voyages she was sold for £ 25, 000, a fraction of the building cost of probably £ 500, 000, and converted to a cable laying ship. In this role she was used in laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1865-1866, and other similar projects. The Great Eastern was Isambard Kingdom Brunels (1806-1859) last great project. He collapsed on her deck on her launch in 1858 and died a few days later. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 7 November 1857)$