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Why Shouldn t Girton Rink, When Cambridge Rows?, 1876. Artist: George Du MaurierWhy Shouldn t Girton Rink, When Cambridge Rows?, 1876 Lady students from Girton College on the towpath waving to crews rowing on the river Cam
Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (1876). George Louis Lesage (1724-1803), Swiss scientist, devised an early form of electric telegraph
General Adoption of the Rolling Skate, 1866. Artist: George Du MaurierGeneral Adoption of the Rolling Skate, 1866
Camera obscura, 1855. Drawing a landscape using a portable camera obscura in the form of a tent. From The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner. (London, 1855)
Advertisement for The Vacuum Cleaner Company, 1906
Gatling rapid fire gun, 1862. This was a revolving battery gun and, with ten barrels, had a firing capacity of 1200 rounds a minute. Camel-mounted model. From The Science Record. (New York, 1862)
Maxim machine gun, c1895. The engineer Hiram Maxim developed the first fully automatic machine gun (1884) which he offered to the United States War and Navy departments
Rink to me only with thine eyes, 1876. Artist: George Du MaurierRink to me only with thine eyes, 1876
Gatling rapid fire gun, 1870. This was a revolving battery gun and, with ten barrels, had a firing capacity of rounds of 1200 rounds of a minute. From The Graphic. (London, August 20, 1870)
Montigny mitrailleuse, rapid fire gun, 1870. Artist: Joseph MontignyMontigny mitrailleuse, rapid fire gun, 1870. Various views of the gun, invented by Joseph Montigny, introduced by the French during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871
Early design of a quick firing cannon, 1482. From De re militari (On Military Matters) by Roberto Valturio. (1482). Written in about 1455, the first printed edition was published in Verona in 1472
Henry Morton Stanleys African expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, 1886-1889 (1887)
Waitresses on roller skates in a Berlin beer cellar, 1851. The first recorded roller-skates appeared in London in 1760 and the first successful ones date from the early 1820s
Camera obscura, c1840
Seaside visitors paying a visit to the camera obscura, 1862
The Last Mile, c1880. David Livingstone (1813-1873), Scottish missionary and African explorer, being carried the last mile to die at his African home in Ujiji, Tanganyika (Tanzania)
Sarah Siddons, English actress, 1784. Artist: John KaySarah Siddons, English actress, 1784. Mrs Siddons (born Sarah Kemble) (1755-1831) as Lady Randolph in John Homes tragedy Douglas at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1784
Police dog being trained, 1907Police dog being trained, 1905. A dummy is being used to train this Paris Police dog to rescue people from drowning in the Seine. From Sunday. (London, 1907)
Ghent police dog, 1907. These dogs underwent a four month training period and accompanied police constables on their night rounds
Making a call from a telephone call box, 1888. From Le Journal de la Jeunesse. (Paris, 1888)
Chicago police telephone box, 1886. A Chicago policeman telephoning from a police call box to bring help to an injured pedestrian. From Les Applications de l Electricite by E Hospitalier
Carbon microphone, invented in 1878 by David Edward Hughes, 1890
Gatling rapid fire gun, 1861-1862 (1872). This was a revolving battery gun and, with ten barrels, had a firing capacity of 1200 rounds a minute. From The Great Industries of the United States
Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (c1870). George Louis Lesage (1724-1803), Swiss scientist, devised an early form of electric telegraph
New letter boxes being mistaken for heating stoves!, 1855. One of Londons first pillar (letter) boxes was erected by the Post Office at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street
Crash of La Republique, 1909
One of Londons first pillar (letter) boxes, 1855. Erected by the Post Office at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street, London. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 24 March 1855)
La Republique on her maiden flight, 1908. The French military airship (dirigible) La Republique on her maiden flight from Paris to Compiegne. From Le Petit Journal. (Paris, 20 September 1908)
The New French Police Auxiliaries, 1907. The newly introduced dog section of the Paris police making arrests in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. From Le Petit Journal. (Paris, 28 July 1907)
In Possession, 1871. Prussian officers billeted on a French family, December 1871, towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 in which France was defeated and partly occupied
Battle of Sedan, France, Franco-Prussian War, 1 September 1870. The village of Baseilles in flames (centre), the River Meuse (centre right) and Faubourg de Alan (centre foreground)
Battle of Sedan, France, Franco-Prussian War, 1 September 1870 (c1880). Stampede of French troops in retreat from the Prussian onslaught
Peace - and No Pieces!, 1866. Artist: John TennielPeace - and No Pieces!, 1866. Napoleon III (1808-1873), French Emperor 1852-1870, dressed as a rag-picker (chiffonnier), warned off by Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian Chancellor
Shades of Louis XIV and Napoleon I lamenting the fading of Frances glory, 1870
Wilhelm I becoming Emperor of Germany, 18 January 1871 (c1880)
Rival Arbiters, 1866. Artist: John TennielRival Arbiters, 1866. Napoleon III (1808-1873), Emperor of France, and Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Chancellor of Prussia, carving up Europe
General Bourbakis defeated French army in Switzerland, February 1871. Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871
Helmuth Karl Bernhard, Count von Moltke, Prussian general and statesman, c1880
French retreat to Switzerland, 30 January-1 February 1871 (c1880). Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871
An English butchers, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, 1871An English butcher s, Boulevard Haussmann, 1871. The meat on sale is from animals, including elephant, from the Jardins des Plantes (Paris Zoo)
Shaving the enemy at Montmirail, 1870. French woman barber shaving a Prussian soldier during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. From The Graphic (London, 8 October 1870)
We have no more than that Sir, 1871. A market trader in poultry, during the Siege of Paris, showing that she has nothing to sell
Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany, late 19th century. Wilhelm I (1797-1888), King of Prussia from 1861and the first Emperor (Kaiser) of Germany from 1871
Britannia trying to restrain Napoleon III from embarking on war with Germany, 1870. Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871
Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York, USA: cable anchorage on the Brooklyn shore, 1883
Joseph Wilson Swan, c1880Joseph Wilson Swan, English chemist and physicist, c1880. Swan (1828-1914), pioneer of electric lighting and inventor of bromide photographic paper
Incandescent filament lamp, glow-lamp, by Lane-Fox, 1883Incandescent filament electric lamp, glow-lamp, by Lane-Fox, 1883. St George Lane-Fox-Pitt (1856-1932) took out a number of patents for filament lamps between 1878 and 1881
Street in Newcastle Upon Tyne lit by Swan incandescent electric lamps, 1883
