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Artists impression of the lunar landscape at sunset, 1884. The Earth is at top right. Stars are visible in the lunar sky although it is not dark because the Moon has no atmosphere to scatter light
Total solar eclipse, 1851 (1857). Bue Island, Norway, 28 July 1851, at the end of totality, with light just beginning to return
Boring wooden pipes, and casting and drawing iron pipes, c1825. At top is a machine for boring wooden pipes. The rest of the machines are for casting a drawing out iron pipes
Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Russian cosmonaut, 1961. Czech postage stamp commemorating Gagarins (1934-1968) flight in Vostok, 12 April 1961, the first manned space flight
Shorthorn Bull Ironclad, 1875. Bred by Lord Polworth, Ironclad was champion male shorthorn at the Royal Agricultural Show at Windsor
British Short Horn, 1839. The shorthorn, an English breed of cattle with a recorded history back to the 18th century. Originally a dual purpose, dairy and beef, animal
Old English breed of pig, 1842. Illustration of a sow from a French edition of The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands by David Low, (Paris, 1842)
Somerset cows, 1842. Polled (with horns removed) variety belonging to John Weir of West Camel and a horned cow from the herd at Montacute House near Yeovil
Bolide and its train, 1870. A bolide is a large meteor which usually explodes in a fireball. From a French popular book on astronomy. (Paris, 1870)
Various pumps for draining ships, 1816. Including: 82: chain pump; 84: suction pump; 85: force pump. From Encyclopaedia Londinensis. (London, 1816)
Jules Verne (1828-1905), Autour de la Lune, 1865. Space capsule manoeuvering ready for Moon landing
James Clerk Maxwells (1831-1879) comparison apparatus, 1880James Clerk Maxwells (1831-1879) apparatus for the comparison of electrostatic and electromagnetic units, 1880. From A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by JEH Gordon, (London, 1880)
Thomas Young (1773-1829), Thin films illustrated by soap bubble, 1872Thin films illustrated by a soap bubble. Surface tension of soapy water allows bubbles to form. Thomas Young (1773-1829) used his Wave (Undulatory) theory of light to explain colours of thin films
Wall mounted telephone, c1910. From Grande Encyclopedie Practique by Henri Desarces
Various substances fluorescing in vacuum tubes of different shapes, 1903
Movement of solids, c1850. Illustrating mechanisms including gears, the escapement, governor, parallel motion, reciprocating to rotative motion, the eccentric, and the crank
Equilibrium of solids, c1850. Physical principles including the lever, pulley, and inclined plane. Educational plate published in Wurtemberg, Germany, c1850