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Codice albumWHA-S-046000
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John Wood' Approaching Bombay'. At this time the East India Company was still governing India. JC Heard (c1850) British painter. Oil on canvas.
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Two East Indiamen off a Coast'. At this time the East India Company still governed India. Thomas Whitcombe (c1850) British painter. Oil on canvas.
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Schematic view of Newcomen steam engine. Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) English inventor and engineer..Early 19th century hand-coloured engraving
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Construction train on the Union Pacific Railroad, 1868. Photograph
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Midlands and Great Western Railway (Ireland) 2-4-0 locomotive 'Rob Roy' built by Neilson Co. 1873. Photograph.
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Various aspects of the ceramic industry from the making of bricks, tiles and drainage pipes, to the decoration of porcelain. Print c1870
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Production and processing various sorts of glass from Plate, Sheet (window) and moulded wares, to Crystal and Optical items. Print c1870
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Soapine household cleaner. From late 19th century American trade card for Kendall Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Whale blubber was used in some soap products.
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Advertisement for Sunlight household soap c1890 recommending it to the housewife by claiming it would make life easier. Produced by Lever Brothers at their Port Sunlight works, Liverpool, England
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Arts of divination. Illustration shows Prophecy, Geomancy, Mnemonics (memory), Astrology, Physiognomy, Chiromancy and Pyramidology. From 'Utriusque cosmi ... historia' by Robert Fludd (Oppenheim 1617-1619) Copperplate engraving.
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Union Pacific Railroad: Wooden trestle bridge at Dale Creek. All timber used in construction had to be hauled 1,000 miles from Chicago. Woodcut, 1869
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Automobile reliability race between Paris and Rouen, sponsored by 'Le Petit Journal'. First prizes awarded to Panhard Levassor and to the Peugeot brothers. From 'Le Petit Journal' Paris 6 August, 1894
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Diagram showing formation of different rocks and evolution of life on Earth. Print published c1880
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Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) Italian-born American nuclear physicist. Constructor of first American nuclear reactor, Chicago, 1942. Nobel prize for physics 1938. Signature
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Enrico Fermi (1901-54) Italian-born American nuclear physicist. Nobel prize for physics 1938, shown here at control of Chicago synchro-cyclotron c1942.
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Eye of tropical storm 'Blanca' photographed between 17 and 24 June 1985. NASA
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Industrialisation c1925. Factory chimneys pouring out polluted smoke - Sheffield. Illustration.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) American artist and inventor. Engraving published 1872 showing him with his printing telegraph on table beside him.
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Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals (1837-1923) Dutch physicist. Nobel prize for physics 1910. 1873 equation defining physical state of gas or liquid. Obverse of commemorative medal
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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) French chemist. Bacteriology. Hydrophobia. Inoculation by attenuated culture. Popular tribute from French 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, at the time of his death
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Euclid (fl295BC) Greek mathematician (geometry). Copperplate engraving of 1740.
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Barthlemy Thimonnier (1793-1857) French inventor. Patented first sewing machine to be put into practical use, Paris, 1830. Made 80 to produce army uniforms, but destroyed by tailors fearing for the jobs. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 1 September 1907.
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Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physics, with her daughters Eve and Irene in 1908.
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Marie (1867-1934) and Pierre (1859-1906) Curie. With their elder daughter Irene in 1904,
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Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist, in 1925 with her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), nuclear physicist, who worked as her mother's assistant at the Radium Institute, Paris, and who shared Nobel prize for chemistry with her husband.
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(Jean) Frederick Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), French physicist, in about 1930. The apparatus is a Wilson cloud chamber. Joliot became assistant to Marie Curie in 1925. In 1926 he married Irene Curie and in 1935 shared with her the Nobel prize for chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity.
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Pierre Curie (1859-1906) French chemist, husband of Marie Curie. In 1903 shared Nobel prize for physics with Marie and with Henri Becquerel for work on radioactivity. Marie's favourite photograph of Pierre.
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Pierre Curie (1859-1908) French chemist, in the lecture theatre in 1906 when professor of physics at the Sorbonne
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Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist. Picture published 1917
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Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955), German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist.
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Prize offered in Scientific American, New York, October, 1920, for an essay on Einstein's theory of relativity. Einstein was travelling in the United States at thgis time
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William Thomson, Lord Klevin (1824-1907), Scottish mathematician and physicist. Photograph published London c1890.
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River landscape with rustics and horses at a ferry by moonlight. Smithy and half-timbered cottage surrounded by woods. By EC Williams, British painter. Oil on canvas. 1860.
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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) British biologist, supporter of Darwin and evolution. Grandfather of Julian and Aldous Huxley. From 'The Popular Science Review', London, April 1866. Woodburytype.
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Madame Schliemann wearing jewellery excavated by her husband at Mycenae. Schliemann believed that it had belonged to Helen of Troy. From 'The Graphic', London, 1877. Engraving
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Albion Mills, on the south side of Blackfriars Bridge, burning, 3 March 1791, after set alight by arsonists. Built by Boulton and Watt, it was first steam-powered flour mill in London, (1786) Engineer for mill machinery: John Rennie (1761-1821) Architect: James Wyatt (1746-1813). From 'Microcosm of London', Rudolph Ackermann, London 1808-1810, illustrated Pugin and Rowlandson. Aquatint.
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Sheep: Shepherd and flock; Dipping; Shearing; Wool Ffood. The main picture is of Black Face breed. Hand-coloured lithograph published c1850. From 'Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man'
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Hare and Rabbit: used for meat; fur; 'beaver hats'; pets and for coursing. Hand-coloured lithograph by Waterhouse Hawkins published London c1850. From 'Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man'.
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The Camel: used for transport; milk; meat; cloth. Hand-coloured lithograph by Waterhouse Hawkins, creator of the prehistoric animals for the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851. From 'Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man'
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The Reindeer: Importance as milk; meat; clothing; transport; shelter. Hand-coloured lithograph published London c1850. From 'Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man'
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Domestic Fowl and their uses: Eggs; Meat; Feathers for bedding; Hats; Shuttlecock. Hand-coloured lithograph published London c1850. From 'Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man'.
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The Elephant: Transport; Food; Ivory; Draught. Hand-coloured lithograph, Thomas Varty, published London c1850. From 'Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man'.
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The Pig: Pannage; Boar hunting; Meat; Lard; Paint brush; Broom; Saddle. Hand-coloured lithograph by Waterhouse Hawkins published London c.850. From 'Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man'
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Henry Bessemer (1813-1893) English engineer and inventor was born at Charlton, near Hitchen, Hertfordshire. Took out many patents but best remembered for his invention of the Bessemer process, patented 1855, for more cheaply producing steel from pig iron in a Bessmer converter. Established a steelworks at Sheffield, 1859. Knighted in 1859 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society the same year. From 'Men of Mark' by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1881).
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Lyon Playfair (1818-1898) Scottish chemist and politician. He studied chemistry at Glasgow under Thomas Graham, and under Liebig at Giessen. Professor chemistry at Edinburgh university 1858-1896. Discovered the nitroprusside class of salts. Chemist to the Geological Survey, 1846. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1848. Engaged in the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Liberal MP for the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh 1868-1885. Secretary of State for Science and Art 1855. Deputy Speaker of the Hosue of Commons 1880-1883. Knighted 1883. Created Baron 1892. From 'Men of Mark' by Thompson Cooper. (London 1877).
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Ancient Egyptian cosmos: goddess Nut (sky) with Qeb (earth) reclining. Shu, standing, representing air with ram-headed god on either side. From Greenfield Papyrus (funerary papyrus of the Princess Nesitanebtashru) c970 BC
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Portrait photographer's studio with subject being photographed. Chromolithograph from Theodore Eckhardt 'Physics in Pictures', London, 1882.
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The Nightmare', 1781. Painting by Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Fussli 1741-1825) Swiss-born English painter. Freud had an engraving of this picture in his study. Goethe Museum, Frankfurt.
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Marco Polo (1254-1324) setting out from Venice with his father and uncle, 1271, for court of Kublai Khan where they arrive 1275. Travels of Marco Polo, 15th century manuscript.
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Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus - active150 AD) Alexandrian Greek astronomer. Picture attributed to Pedro Berruguete (1450-1503/4) and Justus le Gand (c1475). Louvre, Paris. Painting. Oil on wood.
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Voisin biplane, 1910. From a photograph
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Baroness Raymonde Delaroche, first woman to hold a pilot's licence. On 3 Nov. 1909 flew Voisin biplane 1,000 yards. From postcard after photograph. Mail frank 1910.
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