Images Dated 29th July 2005 (#65)

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn (1811-1885), British courtier and statesman, c1880. He served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from 1866-1868 and 1874-1876

Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902), English chemist and inventor, 1877-1878. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902), English chemist and inventor, 1877-1878. Together with James Dewar, Abel invented the explosive cordite

Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902), English chemist and inventor, 1893. Together with James Dewar, Abel invented the explosive cordite. He also devised a new method for manufacturing gun-cotton

Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902), English chemist and inventor, c1890. Together with James Dewar, Abel invented the explosive cordite. He also devised a new method for manufacturing gun-cotton

Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902). English chemist and inventor, 1893
Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902), English chemist and inventor, 1893. Together with James Dewar, Abel invented the explosive cordite. He also devised a new method for manufacturing gun-cotton

Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902), English chemist and inventor, 1893. Together with James Dewar, Abel invented the explosive cordite. He also devised a new method for manufacturing gun-cotton

Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918), last Sultan of Turkey, c1880. Called the Great Assassin, he was a despotic ruler who was deposed and exiled in 1909

Abd-ul-Aziz (1830-1876), Sultan of Turkey from 1861, c1871
Abd-ul-Aziz (1830-1876), Sultan of Turkey from 1861. At first a liberal and westernising Sultan, he later became autocratic

George Abbott (1562-1633), English cleric and Archbishop of Canterbury, 17th century. Artist: Simon Pass
George Abbott (1562-1633), English cleric and Archbishop of Canterbury, 17th century. Abbott, seen holding what appears to be a prayerbook, was a supporter of the Puritans

Ernst Abbe (1840-1905), German physicist. Abbe conducted research in the field of optics. He was a partner in the famous firm Carl Zeiss of Jena, manufacturers of lenses

Edwin Abbott (1838-1926), English educationalist and theologian, c1895. Abbott was the author of the mathematical satire Flatland. He was Headmaster of the City of London School (1865-1889)

Edward Richard Henry, British inventor of finger printing, 1905. Artist: Spy
Edward Richard Henry, British inventor of finger printing, 1905. Henrys system was adopted by the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) in 1901

Bernard Abattia, 16th century French astrologer, 1572. Portrait from his Prognostication sur le marriage de Henry, roy de Navarre, et de Marguerite de France. (Paris, 1572)

A Jacquard Loom, 1915. A power-operated development of Joseph Marie Jacquards (1752-1834) invention, showing swags of punched cards on which the pattern to be woven was encoded

Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), French silk-weaver and inventor

Discharge in Geissler tubes containing rarefied gases, 1887
Discharge in Geissler tubes containing rarefied gases. Investigations of these phenomena led to the discovery of cathode rays, x-rays and electrons. From A. Ganot Natural Philosophy. (London, 1887)

Swan incandescent lamps, University College, Dundee, Scotland, 1884
Swan incandescent lamps fitted in the engineering classrooms at University College, Dundee, Scotland, 1884

Jacquard loom, with swags of punched cards from which pattern was woven, 1876

Man operating machine punching cards for Jacquard looms, 1844
Man operating machine punching cards for Jacquard looms. A total of 400-800 was normal, but sometimes 24, 000 were worked. From George Dodd The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain. (London, 1844)

Preparing punched cards for a Jacquard loom, 1844. The loom had a card for each weft thread of pattern. A total of 400-800 was normal, but sometimes 24, 000 were worked

Pascals digital counting machine of 1642, 1751-1780
Blaise Pascals (1623-1664) digital counting machine (1642) showing (top) two of the train of number wheels which were viewed through windows in the casing of the machine

Clerk using a Pascal adding machine, 1835
Clerk using an adding machine of the type developed by Blaise Pascal (1623-1664), 1835

Hollerith tabulator, 1894
Hollerith tabulator which used a punched card memory system, 1894. First used in the US cenusus of 1890

George and Edward Scheutzs calculating machine. Based on Babbages difference engine, it was developed between 1837 and 1843. Purchased for Dudley Observatory, Albany, New York

Leon Edouxs hydraulic passenger lift (elevator), 1887

Leon Edouxs elevators (lifts) at the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889
Elevators (lifts) by Leon Edoux for carrying passengers to the second and third levels of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889

Elevator (lift) by Siemens and Halske, 1890. Artist: R Wormell
Elevator (lift) by Siemens and Halske, 1890. The elevator is powered by an electric motor (A). From Electricity in the Service of Man by R Wormell. (London, 1890)

Temple of Ten Thousand Idols, Japan, 1880

Cotama Buddha, 1880

Diagram of Mrs Anne Edson Taylor in the barrel in which she plunged over the Niagara Falls, 1901
Diagram of Mrs Anne Edson Taylor in the barrel in which she plunged over the Niagara Falls on 25 October 1901, her forty-third birthday. She was the first person to survive such a journey

Mass meeting of Chartists on Kennington Common, London, 10 April 1848. In centre is the wagon carrying Feargus O Connor and the other delegates

Chartists procession from the mass meeting towards Blackfriars Bridge, London, 10 April 1848
Chartists procession from the mass meeting on Kennington Common towards Blackfriars Bridge, London, where the police stopped them crossing the Thames, 10 April 1848

The July Revolution, France, 1848: election of the President of the Republic, December, 1848. Taking the ballot boxes to the Hotel de Ville, Paris

Disturbances in Madrid, Revolution in Spain, 1848

Barricade in the Strada di Toledo just before the attack, Revolution in Naples, 15 May 1848

The crowd storming the Arsenal in Berlin, Revolution in Prussia, March 1848. Wood engraving, 1848

Chanting crowd in front of the Foreign Ministry, The July Revolution, France, February 1848
Scene in front of the Foreign Ministry with the crowd chanting Mourir pour la patrie, The July Revolution, France, February 1848

Troops charging the crowds in Berlin, Revolution in Prussia, March 1848

Fighting at the barricades, The July Monarchy, France, 1848 (c1885)

Irish nationalists at Mullinahone acclaiming William Smith O Brien as their leader, July 1848
Muster of Irish nationalists at Mullinahone acclaiming William Smith O Brien (1803-1864) as their leader, July 1848. The Insurrection failed

Direct person-to-person blood transfusion, 1679. From Tractatio Med. Curiosa de Murto et Occasu Transfusionis Sanguinis by Georg Abraham Mercklin. (Nuremberg, 1679)

Blood transfusion, c1880. Blood flows from the arm of the donor (left) into a cup, and is then pumped from the bottom of the cup and forced through a canula into the patient

Dr Roussell of Geneva giving a woman a direct blood transfusion from a volunteer, 1882
Dr Roussell of Geneva giving a woman a direct blood transfusion from a volunteer, 7 February 1882. After the birth of premature twins in December 1881

Various forms of paddle boats for use in war, 1483. The bottom 2 are submarines. From Valturio De Re Militari, 1483

Carpet sweeper, c1900s. A startled insect hurries to escape from a woman using a carpet sweeper, which the insect has confused with an automobile

Bissell carpet sweeper, American, c1887. This type of carpet sweeper was invented by Melville and Anna Bissell in 1876. As it is pushed along

Savoy Theatre, London, 1881. View of the interior of the Savoy Theatre with the house (not the stage) lit by Swan incandescent lamps

A tuberculosis patient being given a transfusion of goats blood, 1891. A woman receiving a direct blood transfusion from a goat at Dr Bernheims clinic

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