Images Dated 5th August 2005 (page 2)

Crustacea and Reptiles, c1850. Artist: Robert Kent Thomas
Crustacea and Reptiles, c1850. The central image shows a lobster, crab, turtle, scallops, whelks and prawns, cowrie shells, lobster and crab pots and shrimping nets

Domestic Fowl, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Domestic Fowl, c1850. The central image shows a cockerel, hens and chicks. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left)

The Bee, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Bee, c1851. The central image shows bee skeps and plants on which bees forage, and Indian, American and South European bees

The Goat, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Goat, c1850. The central image is of a goat and kid. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): milking goats for milk and cheese; an Eastern goatherd

The Ass, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Ass, c1850. The central image shows the ass or donkey (Equus asinus). Surrounding vignettes show animals (clockwise from top left)

The Rein Deer, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Rein Deer, c1850. The Lapps (Samek or Samer), nomadic herdsmen of the Arctic from the Kola peninsula to northwest Sweden whose traditional way of life depended on their herds of semi-domesticated

The Camel, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Camel, c1850. The central image shows the Arabian Camel or Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) with a single hump, and the Asian or Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) with two humps

The Hare and the Rabbit, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Hare and the Rabbit, c1850. The central image shows wild and domesticted rabbits. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left)

The Sheep, c1850. Artist: Day & Haghe
The Sheep, c1850. The central image is of sheep of the Black Faced breed. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left)

Fire in London, 1808. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Fire in London, 1808. Albion Mills, on the south side of Blackfriars Bridge, London, burning, on 3 March 1791, after the mills were set alight by arsonists

Making beaver hats, 1841. Although called beaver hats, a certain amount beaver fur was only used in the most expensive examples. In most others, rabbit fur was used

The Postmans Knock c1855. A postman in General Post Office uniform knocking on a front door. From the cover of a song with music by Stephen Glover

Paying for letter delivery, c1870 Artist: Oskar Pletsch
Paying for letter delivery, c1870. A postman waits while a young man delves in his pocket for money to pay for his letter

There is the Postmans knock!, 1867. A postman in Royal Mail uniform knocking at a front door. Illustration from a childrens book. (London, 1867)

Shoemaker, c1845. A shoemaker sits by his bench working on a boot or shoe, his tools on a tray beside him. On the bench stand the leather and the sole for a boot

Making beaver hats, 1835. Although called beaver hats, a certain amount of beaver fur was only used in the most expensive examples. In most others, rabbit fur was used

Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, German physicist, 1902. In 1895, while professor of physics at Wurzburg, (Rontgen (1845-1913) discovered X-rays, originally called Rontgen rays

Finnish or Russian bath, 19th century. Men and women in a steam bath or sauna. On the left men are throwing water into a furnace to create steam while on the right a woman is having cold water poured

Silk weaver, Bethnal Green, East London, 1893. A weaver at work on a hand loom in his cottage at Bethnal Green. His loom is set up by a wide window typical of weavers cottages in many English towns

Hoxton Division, 1899. Artist: Stuff
Hoxton Division, 1899. James Stuart (1843-1913) British mathematician and engineer, champion of university education for women

The Railway Interest, 1875. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
The Railway Interest, 1875. Edward William Watkin (1819-1901), English railway promoter and politician. Known as The Second Railway King

Iron Shipbuilding, 1873. Joseph d Aguilar Samuda (1813-1885), British mechanical engineer and naval architect. In partnership with his brother Jacob (d1844)

The Bottom of the Shaft, 1862. Wagons of coal are being wheeled to the pit shaft, placed in a cage and hauled to the surface. From The Popular Encyclopaedia. (Glasgow and London, 1862)

Syntax Star-gazing, c1815. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Syntax Star-gazing, c1815. Dr Syntax showing a young woman the stars with a small refracting telescope typical of this date, while a manservant trips over a dog and falls headlong down the stairs

James Hutton, Scottish geologist, 18th century, (1875). Hutton (1726-1797) first published his Theory of the Earth in 1785, then an expanded version in 1795

Crematorium, Pere la Chaise cemetery, Paris, 1888. Illustration published in March 1888 while the building was under construction

Madame Sophie Schliemann, 1877. Madame Schliemann wearing jewellery excavated by her husband Heinrich at Troy (in modern Turkey) in 1876

Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist, 1891. Schliemann (1822-1890) pioneered prehistoric Greek archaeology. He excavated the traditional site of Troy four times between 1871 and 1890

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

Spitalfields silk weavers, 1893. Warners workshops, Spitalfields, East London. The weavers are working on hand looms and the weaving shed is lit by fishtail gas lights

Coalman, 1826. The Parisian coalman or Charbonier, with a full sack of coal on his back, wears a black shovel hat which covers the back of his neck

Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913. In 1911 the British government decided to award a contract to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company to erect state-owned radio stations across the British Empire

Interior of a Marconi radio transmitting station, 1915. Cigarette card showing transmitting apparatus, published in London in 1915

Advertisement for Kodak Brownie box cameras, 1900. From 1888 the Kodak box camera took Eastmans coated paper roll film. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 4 August 1900)

Chester Water Works, from the fields, 1852. Artist: John Romney
Chester Water Works, from the fields, 1852. Steam-powered pumping station for raising water from the river Dee for the towns water supply

Female silk worker, Spitalfields, London, 1833. A woman is winding silk onto the warping frame. The Spitalfields silk industry was begun by Huguenot refugees who left France after the Revocation by

Lavoisiers investigation of the existence of oxygen in the air, late 18th century, (1894). French chemist Antoine Lavoisiers (1743-1794) experiment to demonstrate the existence of oxygen

Inside a Cheshire salt mine, 1889. Miners are gathering loose rock salt after blasting, and loading it into a horse-drawn tub for hoisting to the surface

Descartes idea of the hydraulic action of the nerves, 1692. French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed nerves were hollow, provided with valves

Napoleons troops defending a telegraph tower, c1815, (c1870). The incident took place shortly before Napoleons defeat at Waterloo by the allies under Wellington, 18 June 1815

Building a Chappe telegraph station, c1793, (c1870). Claude Chappes (1763-1805) optical telegraph station used a system of rope

Chappes aerial telegraph system, Algeria, mid-19th century, (c1870). Claude Chappes (1763-1805) optical telegraph station used a system of rope

First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, early 19th century, (c1870)
First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, Russia, early 19th century, (c1870). Tsar Nicholas I (1796-1855), sending the first message from St Petersburg telegraph station

Casellis pantelegraph of 1865, (c1870). Invented by the Italian Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891), this precursor of the Fax machine was used on some French railway lines from 1865-1870

Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, c1860s. Huxley (1825-1895) was known as Darwins bulldog because of his ardent support of Darwins theory of evolution

Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 1897. Portrait published after his death of Huxley (1825-1895) who was known as Darwins bulldog because of his ardent support of Darwins theory of evolution

River Landscape with Rustics and Horses, c1860. Artist: Edward Charles Williams
River Landscape with Rustics and Horses, c1860. A moonlit rural scene by a river. A half-timbered cottage with a tiled roof stands near the water and mature woodland reaches down to the riverbank

Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 1866. Huxley (1825-1895) was known as Darwins bulldog because of his ardent support of Darwins theory of evolution

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