86 Items
Chemical lecture, 1802. Artist: James Gillray
For Better or Worse, 1866
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer, c1850s
William Gilbert, English physician, late 16th century
Six early forms of bicycles and tricycles, 19th century
Agricultural, c 1845. Artist: Robert Kent Thomas
Pythagoras, Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher, 6th century BC
Lambeth Gas Works, 1872. Artist: Gustave Dore
Grey drone-fly, observation XXXIX from Hookes Micrographia, 1664. Artist: Robert Hooke
Solar and lunar eclipses, 1785
Camera obscura, 1646
Human sacrifice on Tahiti in the South Pacific, c1773. Artist: W Woollett
The Artist, c1845. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
La Salle des Illusions, Paris, September 1900
The Illuminations at the International Inventions Exhibition
Brick Maker, 1808. Artist: William Henry Pyne
The Fife cantilever, c1880s
Falls View Suspension Bridge, Niagara, North America, c1869-c1889
The aqueduct at Barton, near Manchester, 1793. Artist: William Orme
Le Chirugien de Campagne ( The Country Surgeon ), c1747. Artist: Thomas Major
La Pharmacie Rustique, c1775. Artist: Barthelemi Hubner
Mammal embryos, 1905
Alexander Fleming Prix Nobel 1945
John Harrison, c1835. Artist: William Holl
William Harvey demonstrating to King Charles I his theory of the circulation of the blood
Thomas Linacre, MD, 1847. Artist: H Cook
John Hunter, FRS, (c1850-c1870?). Artist: William Holl
Dr Lyon Playfair, (c1850-c1880?). Artist: G Cook
Indians Fishing, c1845. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Agriculture, for Manure, c1845. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Garrett & Sons Double-Cylinder Steam Ploughing Engine and Tackle, c1862
Bells improved reaping machine by Crosskill, c1840s. Artist: Joseph Wilson Lowry
The Kew heliograph being used in an eclipse-viewing expedition to Spain, 1860
Principal Observatory, Siam, 1875
Public witness of the solar eclipse, London, c1870
Solar Eclipse Observatory, Nicobar Islands, c1875
Solar eclipse seen over the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1858
Systeme de Descartes, 1761. Artist: Rene Descartes
Experiments with Fairlies steam carriage for short distances, August 1869
Galileos thermometer, 1592. Artist: Galileo Galilei
Model of a joiners hand saw, c1816
Break of Gauge at Gloucester, Gloucestershire, 6th June 1846. Artist: WJ Linton
Warehousing in the City, 1872. Artist: Adolphe Francois Pannemaker
The Great Western Railway disaster at Thorpe near Norwich, 10 September 1874
Tay Bridge disaster, Scotland, 28 December 1879
Tay Bridge disaster, Scotland, 28 December 1879. Artist: Frank Dadd
Pewter-making, c1750s
Tay Bridge disaster, Scotland, 28 December 1879. Artist: CR
Cutlery-making, c1750s
Natives of the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, slaughtering swine before Captain Cook, c1778
The Black Country near Bilston, Staffordshire, 1869. Artist: G Greatbach
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, scientist and inventor, c1900
Turning wood, 1754. Artist: I Hinton
Sir Humphrey Davy, English chemist, 1803. Artist: C Turner
Sir Richard Owen, English zoologist, c1860. Artist: DJ Pound
Eadweard James Muybridge, British-American photography pioneer, 1889
Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch pioneer of microscopy, c1660. Artist: Abraham de Blois
Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society (PRS)
Peter Dollond, optician, c1800
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist, c1670
Samuel Crompton, English inventor of the spinning mule, c1880s. Artist: James Morrison
Henry Ford, American automobile engineer and manufacturer, 1908
John Flamsteed, astronomer, 1712. Artist: George Vertue
Matthew Boulton, engineer and industrialist, c1801. Artist: William Sharp
Joseph Black, Scottish chemist, c1780s. Artist: C Cooke
Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, 1800s. Artist: William Holl
Robert Bunsen, German chemist, 1850s. Artist: C Cook
Alfred Berhard Nobel, c1880s
Lord Kelvin and his compass, 1902. Artist: James Craig Annan
Orville Wright, 1903
Vincenzo Lunardi, c1770
Sir Joseph John Thomson, physicist and inventor, 1900
Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, c1680
John Dollond, optician, c1750. Artist: Posselwhite
Sir William Herschel, astronomer, 1790s. Artist: John Russell
Sir John Herschel, astronomer and scientist, 1810s. Artist: Gaspare Gabrielli
Thomas Willis, physician, 1742. Artist: George Vertue
Joseph Jackson Lister, English wine merchant and amateur microscopist
Samuel Franklin Cody, 1912
Sketch of the moon by Galileo Galilei, c1635. Artist: Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist, 1635. Artist: Ramsay
Sir Frederick William Herschel, 1800s
Emil Fischer, German organic chemist, 1904
