Images Dated 8th August 2005

The Death of Napoleon the Great, 5 May 1821, 1825

The Death of Napoleon the Great, 5 May 1821, 1825. Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815. After his defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and his subsequent surrender to the British, he was exiled to the island of St Helena where he died. Here he is surrounded by his household and the Governor of St Helena while a British soldier stands on guard at the door. On a stool by the bed are a sword, a laurel wreath, and a scroll with the names of his main campaigns

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Florence Nightingale in her carriage in the Crimea, 1856

Florence Nightingale in her carriage in the Crimea, 1856. Known as Florrie's Trolley it was described as... a homely vehicle corresponding to the womanly simplicity of her whom it was employed to convey'. In 1854, during the Crimean War (1853-1856), Sidney Herbert, Secretary of State for War, appointed the English nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), a family friend, to introduce female nurses into the British military hospitals in the Crimea. Until the end of the war she worked tirelessly to improve conditions. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 30 August 1856)

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Joules apparatus for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat, 1881

Joule's apparatus for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat, 1872. A vessel of water, oil or mercury encloses vanes attached to a spindle. Cord is wound round the cylinder and drum. The weight descending against the scale rotates the spindle and vanes. Raising and lowering the weight raises the temperature of the fluid. From the rise in temperature and the distance travelled, the energy used can be calculated. British physicist James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) determined the mechanical equivalent of heat. The unit of energy called the joule is named after him

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