Images Dated 8th August 2006 (page 2)

The Black Country near Bilston, Staffordshire, 1869. Artist: G Greatbach
The Black Country near Bilston, Staffordshire, 1869, showing a scene of heavy industry at night with smoking chimneys, fire from gas outlets and hot coals, with a wheeled engine to right

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, scientist and inventor, c1900. Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in the USA

Turning wood, 1754. Artist: I Hinton
Turning wood, 1754, taken from the New and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences - Supplement (1754) by J Barlow. The plate shows two scenes of wood turning with two different kinds of treadle

Sir Humphrey Davy, English chemist, 1803. Artist: C Turner
Sir Humphrey Davy, English chemist, 1803. Whilst at the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, Davy discovered the anaesthetic effects of laughing gas (nitrous oxide)

Sir Richard Owen, English zoologist, c1860. Artist: DJ Pound
Sir Richard Owen, English zoologist, c1860. Owen studied medicine at Edinburgh and at St Bartholomews and became curator in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons where he produced a fine series

Eadweard James Muybridge, British-American photography pioneer, 1889. Muybridge lecturing at the Royal Society in London. After emigrating to America in 1852

Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Newtons discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society (PRS), botanist, 1800s. Artist: Thomas Philips
Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society (PRS), botanist, 1800s. Banks travelled to Newfoundland in 1766 on an expedition to collect plants

Peter Dollond, optician, c1800. This engraving was published in the European Magazine in 1820. Dollond worked with both his father John Dollond and uncle George Dollond

Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist, c1670. Huygens was responsible for two great advances in horology: the application of both the pendulum to the clock and the balance spring to the watch

Samuel Crompton, English inventor of the spinning mule, c1880s. Artist: James Morrison
Samuel Crompton, English inventor of the spinning mule, c1880s. Between 1772 and 1779 Crompton invented the spinning mule frame

Henry Ford, American automobile engineer and manufacturer, 1908. In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. He pioneered modern assembly line mass production techniques for his famous Model

John Flamsteed, astronomer, 1712. Artist: George Vertue
John Flamsteed, astronomer, 1712. Flamsteed was appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England by Charles II, on the founding of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, in 1675

Matthew Boulton, engineer and industrialist, c1801. Artist: William Sharp
Matthew Boulton, engineer and industrialist, c1801. Works owner Matthew Boulton and Scottish engineer and inventor, James Watt formed a partnership in 1773 to produce steam engines

Joseph Black, Scottish chemist, c1780s. Artist: C Cooke
Joseph Black, Scottish chemist, c1780s. Black was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1756, and, in 1766

Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, 1800s. Artist: William Holl
Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, 1800s. Brewster is chiefly remembered for his lifelong investigations into optics

Robert Bunsen, German chemist, 1850s. Artist: C Cook
Robert Bunsen, German chemist, 1850s. Signed portrait; Bunsen (1811-1899) is widely considered one of the greatest experimental chemists of the 19th century

Sir William Herschel, astronomer, 1790s. Artist: John Russell
Sir William Herschel, astronomer, 1790s. Holding a diagram of planets and their planetry rings. Herschel constructed his own telescope after taking up astronomy as a hobby

Thomas Willis, physician, 1742. Artist: George Vertue
Thomas Willis, physician, 1742. To the left of his portrait are parts of a skull and a diagram of the spine and ribcage. To the right are several books

Joseph Jackson Lister, English wine merchant and amateur microscopist, 1830s. Artist: Maull & Co
Joseph Jackson Lister, English wine merchant and amateur microscopist, 1830s. Photographed with a microscope. Lister, father of Joseph Lister

Sir Frederick William Herschel, 1800s. Herschel, the German-born British astronomer, constructed his own telescope after taking up astronomy as a hobby

Tay Bridge disaster, Scotland, 28 December 1879. Illustration taken from the Illustrated London News, (3 January 1880), entitled Steam launches and divers barge employed in the search

Tay Bridge disaster, Scotland, 28 December 1879. Artist: CR
Tay Bridge disaster, Scotland, 28 December 1879. Illustration taken from the Illustrated London News, (3 January 1880), entitled Pieces of wreck cast up on the beach at Broughty Ferry

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch pioneer of microscopy, c1660. Artist: Abraham de Blois
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch pioneer of microscopy, c1660. It was probably as a result of his use of lenses in examining cloth as a drapers apprentice that led to Leeuwenhoeks interest in lens

Sir John Herschel, astronomer and scientist, 1810s. Artist: Gaspare Gabrielli
Sir John Herschel, astronomer and scientist, 1810s. Portrait of John Herschel as a young man. The son of astronomer Sir William Herschel, John Herschel discovered 525 nebulae and clusters

Lord Kelvin and his compass, 1902. Artist: James Craig Annan
Lord Kelvin and his compass, 1902. Kelvin was born William Thomson and was educated at Glasgow and Cambridge. He was professor of Natural Philosophy (Physics)

Orville Wright, 1903. American aviation pioneer, Wright and his brother Wilbur originally designed and built bicycles but changed their interest to flying, producing a controllable glider by 1902

Vincenzo Lunardi, c1770, was an Italian diplomat who, on 15 September 1784, made the first British ascent in a hydrogen balloon

Sir Joseph John Thomson, physicist and inventor, 1900
Sir Joseph John Thomson, British physicist and inventor, 1900. Thomson studied sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduating

John Dollond, optician, c1750. Artist: Posselwhite
John Dollond, optician, c1750. Pictured with a book with an overhanging leaf with ther word Opticks on it. Dolland became known for his invention of the achromatic lens

Samuel Franklin Cody, 1912. American-born Cody invented the manlifting kite as a means for military observation. On 16 October 1908 he made the first powered flight in Britain in his British Army

Sketch of the moon by Galileo Galilei, c1635. Artist: Galileo Galilei
Sketch of the moon by Galileo Galilei, c1635. Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer and physicist is one of the greatest scientists of all time

Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist, 1635. Artist: Ramsay
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist, 1635. One of the greatest scientists of all time, Galileo discovered Jupiters moons and the laws governing falling bodies

Emil Fischer, German organic chemist, 1904. Photographed with scientific instruments. In 1874 he discovered the first hydrazine base, phenylhydrazine

Marie and Pierre Curie, physicists, 1904. Photograph with their daughter Irene. Curie and her husband Pierre continued the work on radioactivity started by H Becquerel

Jons Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist, early 19th century. Berzelius devised the first consistently accurate method of using the oxidation technique developed by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Alfred Berhard Nobel, c1880s
Alfred Bernhard Nobel, c1880s. In 1866 Swedish chemist and industrialist Nobel invented a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin he called dynamite

Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, c1680. Christopher Wren (1632-1723) rebuilt fifty-one churches in the City of London after the Great Fire, constructed the new St Pauls Cathedral

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