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Why Shouldn t Girton Rink, When Cambridge Rows?, 1876. Artist: George Du Maurier
Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (1876)
General Adoption of the Rolling Skate, 1866. Artist: George Du Maurier
Camera obscura, 1855
Advertisement for The Vacuum Cleaner Company, 1906
Police dog being trained, 1907
Gatling rapid fire gun, 1862
Maxim machine gun, c1895
Rink to me only with thine eyes, 1876. Artist: George Du Maurier
Gatling rapid fire gun, 1870
Montigny mitrailleuse, rapid fire gun, 1870. Artist: Joseph Montigny
Early design of a quick firing cannon, 1482
Henry Morton Stanleys African expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, 1886-1889 (1887)
Waitresses on roller skates in a Berlin beer cellar, 1851
Camera obscura, c1840
Seaside visitors paying a visit to the camera obscura, 1862
The Last Mile, c1880
Sarah Siddons, English actress, 1784. Artist: John Kay
Ghent police dog, 1907
Making a call from a telephone call box, 1888
Chicago police telephone box, 1886
Carbon microphone, invented in 1878 by David Edward Hughes, 1890
Gatling rapid fire gun, 1861-1862 (1872)
Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (c1870)
New letter boxes being mistaken for heating stoves!, 1855
Crash of La Republique, 1909
One of Londons first pillar (letter) boxes, 1855
La Republique on her maiden flight, 1908
The New French Police Auxiliaries, 1907
In Possession, 1871
Battle of Sedan, France, Franco-Prussian War, 1 September 1870
Battle of Sedan, France, Franco-Prussian War, 1 September 1870 (c1880)
Peace - and No Pieces!, 1866. Artist: John Tenniel
Shades of Louis XIV and Napoleon I lamenting the fading of Frances glory
Wilhelm I becoming Emperor of Germany, 18 January 1871 (c1880)
Rival Arbiters, 1866. Artist: John Tenniel
General Bourbakis defeated French army in Switzerland, February 1871
Helmuth Karl Bernhard, Count von Moltke, Prussian general and statesman, c1880
French retreat to Switzerland, 30 January-1 February 1871 (c1880)
An English butchers, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, 1871
Shaving the enemy at Montmirail, 1870
We have no more than that Sir, 1871
Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany, late 19th century
Britannia trying to restrain Napoleon III from embarking on war with Germany
Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York, USA: cable anchorage on the Brooklyn shore, 1883
Joseph Wilson Swan, c1880
Incandescent filament lamp, glow-lamp, by Lane-Fox, 1883
Street in Newcastle Upon Tyne lit by Swan incandescent electric lamps, 1883
