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Train crossing Stockport viaduct on the London & North Western Railway, c1845
Whitby, 1824. Artist: JMW Turner
James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor, 1833
The Order of Release, 1746, 1852-1853. Artist: John Everett Millais
The Engineer, 1867
The Lace Maker, c1664. Artist: Jan Vermeer
Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom-House
Viaduct on the Baltimore & Washington Railroad, c1838. Artist: Henry Adlard
The Strawberry Thief, 1883. Artist: William Morris
Obverse of a medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577
Crinan Canal at Lochgilphead, Scotland, 1891
Water! Water! Everywhere; and not a Drop to Drink, 1849
Four moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, 1979
The Story of Theseus, mid-15th century. Artist: Master of the Cassoni
JJ Thomson, British nuclear physicist, 1898
Tring cutting, London & Birmingham Railway, 17 June 1837 (1839). Artist: John Cooke Bourne
New Lanark Mills, Scotland, c1815
Construction of the Kilsby Tunnel on the London & Birmingham Railway
Industrial polltion, Sheffield, Yorkshire, c1925
Friedrich Engels, German socialist and collaborator and supporter of Karl Marx, 1879
Euston Station, London terminus of London and Birmingham Railway, 1840
John Wood Approaching Bombay, c1850. Artist: Joseph Heard
Battle at the Porte St Denis, 28th July, 1830, Paris. Artist: Hippolyte Lecomte
The Old Plantation, 1800
William Herschels reflecting telescope of 40 ft (12 m) focal length, 1789 (1807)
The Whale, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Needle-making equipment, 1819
Chirk Aqueduct on the Ellesmere Canal, c1829. Artist: Thomas Barber
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), Nobel prize-winning atomic physicist, c1908
Bird s-eye view of the Eiffel Tower at the time of the opening of the Paris Exposition of 1889
Geological map of the moon, 1967
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and inventor and pioneer of wireless telegraphy
Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1871
Great Eastern on the stocks at Millwall on the Thames, 1857
Exterior of the north transept of the Crystal Palace
Advertisement for Sunlight household soap, c1890
Microwave map of whole sky, c1990s
Thomas, Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1877. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Richard Owen, English zoologist, 1884. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
The Blind Girl, 1856. Artist: John Everett Millais
Illustration from John Miltons Paradise Lost, 1866. Artist: Gustave Dore
Equilibrium and movement of the air, c1851
The Anatomist, 1811. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Nearly full view of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, 1979
Four moons of Jupiter. Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, 1979
Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, at his desk in 1882 (1883)
Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, c1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, at his desk, c1880
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, c1880
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1883
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1881. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
Landing at Frejus, March, 1815
Napoleon at Arcola Bridge, 15 November 1796
Le Dressage, early 19th century. Artist: Theodore Gericault
Dantes vision of Heaven, 15th century
Diorite stele inscribed with the laws of Hammurabi, 18th century BC
Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December, 1805, (c1835). Artist: Francois Georgin
Battle of the Pyramids, 21 June, 1798, (c1835). Artist: Francois Georgin
Battle of Fleurus, 26 June 1794
Siege of a town led by Godefroy de Bouillon, c1099, (14th century)
Music Party, East Cowes Castle, c1835. Artist: JMW Turner
Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 1871
Dawlish, Devon, c1860
St Austell, 1860
Lead chamber for production of sulphuric acid, 1866
Harry John Lawson, English inventor of a safety bicycle, 19th century
Comte de La Perouse, 18th century French navigator, astronomer and explorer, c1834
Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation
Mr O Brien, the Irish Giant, the Tallest Man in the Known World, 1803. Artist: John Kay
Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, from above the bridge, c1795. Artist: Samuel Ireland
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias Olbers, German astronomer and physician, 1864
Advertisement for Ediswan incandescent light bulbs, 1898
The relation of Man, the microcosm, with the Universe, the macrocosm, c1617
Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, weighing and comparing systems of the universe, 1651
Releasing French army homing pigeons on board the transatlantic liner La Bretagne, 1898
Pithead at Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, 1860
Post mill, Wimbledon Common, near London, c1840. Artist: Castle
Rene Descartes diagram of the human brain and eye, 1692
Rene Descartes idea of vision, showing the function of the eye
Thomas Edison, American inventor
Copernican (heliocentric) system of the universe, 17th century. Artist: Johannes Hevelius
Colt Frontier revolver, invented by Samuel Colt (1814-62), c1850
Samuel Colt (1814-1862), inventor of the Colt revolver, 1856
Discovery of iguanodon fossils, Bernissart, Belgium, 1878 (c1880)
