Physics Collection

Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, (19th century). Artist: Freeman
Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, (19th century). Newtons (1643-1727) discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Letter from Sir Issac Newton to William Briggs, 20th June 1682. Artist: Isaac Newton
Letter from Sir Issac Newton to William Briggs, 20th June 1682. Letter written from Trinity College, Cambridge by Newton to William Briggs, MD

JJ Thomson, British nuclear physicist, 1898. Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940), the discoverer of the electron, with his students at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

Wilhelm Roentgens X-ray photograph of his wifes hand, 1896. Artist: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
Wilhelm Roentgens X-ray photograph of his wifes hand, 1896. For his work on electromagnetic radiation and the discovery of X-rays, Roentgen (1845-1923) was awarded the 1901 Nobel prize for Physics

Frederic Joliot and Irene Joliot-Curie, French scientists, 1935. Joliot (1900-1958) became assistant to Marie Curie in 1925

Microwave map of whole sky, c1990s. A map produced from one years data from NASAs COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Albert Einstein, 1950s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Albert Einstein, 1950s, (2023). German-born mathematician and theoretical physicist. Einstein's main contribution to science was the theory of relativity

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Albert Einstein, 1950s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Albert Einstein, 1950s, (2023). German-born mathematician and theoretical physicist. Einstein's main contribution to science was the theory of relativity

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Albert Einstein, 1950s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Albert Einstein, 1950s, (2023). German-born mathematician and theoretical physicist. Einstein's main contribution to science was the theory of relativity

AI IMAGE - Portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1950s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1950s, (2023). Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was and American theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, 1660s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, 1660s, (2023). Newton (1642-c1726) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, 1660s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, 1660s, (2023). Newton (1642-c1726) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Stephen Hawking, 2000s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Stephen Hawking, 2000s, (2023). Professor Hawking (1942-2018) was a British theoretical physicist, mathematician, cosmologist and author

AI Image - Portrait of Nikola Tesla, c1900s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI Image - Portrait of Nikola Tesla, c1900s, (2023). Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer

AI Image - Portrait of Isaac Newton, 1680s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI Image - Portrait of Isaac Newton, 1680s, (2023). Newton (1642-c1726) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist

Un Guerrier électrisé, 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un Guerrier electrise, 1844. An Electrified Warrior. Le Physicien: Tel est, messieurs, l'effet veritablement extraordinaire de la pile de Volta!'

Sir Isaac Newton, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Sir Isaac Newton, 1860. One of six...Sculptures of Philosophers of all ages which decorate the central court of the Oxford University Museum These statues...have been executed by A

Portrait of Daniele Barbaro, 1556-1562. Creator: Paolo Veronese
Portrait of Daniele Barbaro, 1556-1562

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

Miss Elizabeth Funk, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Miss Elizabeth Funk, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Miss Elizabeth Funk, 1917

Archimède démontrant aux ingènieurs anglais... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Archimede demontrant aux ingenieurs anglais... 19th century. Archimedes showing the English engineers how, in Syracuse, he raised not just one vessel but an entire fleet

Impressions et compressions de voyage, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Impressions et compressions de voyage, 19th century. Early railway passengers: We're done for! No, it's well known that when the convoy moves forward the travellers move backwards

Interior Dept. - Bureau of Mines, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Interior Dept
Interior Dept. - Bureau of Mines, [Washington, DC], between 1910 and 1920. Scientist using a bunsen burner to heat a glass instrument

Bureau of Mines, Dept. of Int. between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Bureau of Mines, Dept. of Int
Bureau of Mines, Dept. of Int. between 1910 and 1920. Man placing samples in a furnace. The United States Bureau of Mines (USBM)

Esquisse pour le salon des Sciences de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : La Physique, c.1889 - 1892
Esquisse pour le salon des Sciences de l'Hotel de Ville de Paris : La Physique, between 1889 and 1892. Physics: allegorical figure, dynamo, telephone receiver

Science class in Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Washington, D.C. between 1890-1910(?). [Roman Catholic school for girls, founded in 1799. Students studying physics. Note nun at left]

Class in capillary physics at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899 and 1900. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Class in capillary physics at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899 and 1900

Group of young women studying static electricity in normal school, Washington, D.C. (1899?)

Group of young women performing atmospheric pressure experiments while studying... (1899?)
Group of young women performing atmospheric pressure experiments while studying science in normal school, Washington, D.C. (1899?)

Esquisse pour le salon des Sciences de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : La Physique - La... c.1889-1891
Esquisse pour le salon des Sciences de l'Hotel de Ville de Paris : La Physique - La Chimie, between 1889 and 1891

Pendulum-Room at the Bottom of the Harton Coal-Pit, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Pendulum-Room at the Bottom of the Harton Coal-Pit, 1854. Experiment to determine the weight of the Earth. The apparatus consists of two astronomical clocks with compensation pendulums

Mouth of the Harton Coal-Pit, South Shields, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Mouth of the Harton Coal-Pit, South Shields, 1854. Mr. Airy['s] grand object was to arrive at the weight of our globe...it being necessary to know this before we can proceed to determine

Portrait of Édouard Branly (1844-1940), physicist, c1920. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Edouard Branly (1844-1940), physicist, c1920

Portrait thought to be of Father Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770), c1740. Creator: Jacques de Lajoue II
Portrait thought to be of Father Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770), c1740

M. Petin's "System of Aerial Navigation", 1850. Creator: Unknown. M
M. Petin's "System of Aerial Navigation", 1850. French milliner and balloonist Ernest Petin..has sought to give to his apparatus the greatest possible power

Physics Lab of the Real School in Tyumen, 1889. Creator: N Terekhov
Physics Lab of the Real School in Tyumen, 1889. From an album of photographs of the Aleksandrovsky School in the Siberian city of Tiumen (present-day Tyumen')

I. Newton, (1642-1727), 1830. Creator: Unknown
I. Newton, (1642-1727), 1830. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge

Leibnitz, (1646-1716), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Leibnitz, (1646-1716), 1830. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) German polymath, logicians, mathematician and natural philosopher of the Enlightenment who also made contributions to physics

Statue of Sir Isaac Newton in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, c1850. Newtons discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German physicist, (c1924). On 8 November 1895, Roentgen (or Rontgen, 1845-1923) discovered what came to be known as X-rays

Wilhelm Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist and physicist, c1871
Wilhelm Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist and physicist, 1871. In 1840 Haidinger (1795-1871) was appointed Counsellor of Mines, in Vienna

Galileo facing the Inquisition, Rome, 1633 (1870). Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist

First magnetoelectric motor built by Hippolyte Pixii, c1832 (c1890). This was the first application of Faradays demonstration (1831) that magnetism produces an electric current

Equilibrium and movement of the air, c1851. The effects of pneumatics and barometric pressure underwater and in the air, showing ballooning, a diving bell, divers in diving suits, an air gun

Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. Experiments in physics class, 1901. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. Experiments in physics class, 1901

Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. Classroom experiment in physics, 1901. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. Classroom experiment in physics, 1901

Physics laboratory, Eastern High School, (1899?). Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Physics laboratory, Eastern High School, (1899?)

Orbital Trajectories Presentation, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, June 28, 1958. Charles Lundquist (right) gives a presentation on orbital trajectories at the Army Ballestic Missile Agency to Hermann

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