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Images Dated 4th August 2005 (page 10)

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Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Henry Bessemer, British engineer and inventor, 19th century

Henry Bessemer, British engineer and inventor, 19th century. Bessemer (1813-1898) was a prolific inventor, but is best known for the invention of a method of converting pig iron into steel

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Hydrotherapy treatments, c1902

Hydrotherapy treatments, c1902. Wet packs for treating the the kidney (top) and spine (middle). Bottom: sitz-bath and half-bath

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, British physiologist, 1894. Artist: Spy

John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, British physiologist, 1894. Artist: Spy
John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, British physiologist, 1894. Burdon-Sanderson (1828-1905) was Regius professor of medicine at Oxford

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: James Graham, Scottish quack doctor, 1795. Artist: John Kay

James Graham, Scottish quack doctor, 1795. Artist: John Kay
James Graham, Scottish quack doctor, 1795. Graham (1745-1794) set up the Temple of Health in The Adelphi, London. He used milk baths, friction, electricity and magnetism in the treatments he offered

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Cricket Field at Bournville, 1892

Cricket Field at Bournville, 1892. Bournville was the ideal village built near Birmingham for their employees by the chocolate manufacturers Cadburys

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Diesel engine: internal combustion engine invented by Rudolph Diesel in 1897 (c1910)

Diesel engine: internal combustion engine invented by Rudolph Diesel in 1897 (c1910). In 1892, Diesel (1858-1913) patented a design for a new type of internal combustion engine

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Portable threshing machine, c1910

Portable threshing machine, c1910. Machines of this type were used in rickyards or fields, and powered by a portable steam engine

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Cashew nut - Anacardium occidentale, c1798

Cashew nut - Anacardium occidentale, c1798. Branch of a tree showing flowers, apples and nuts. The apples can be used for preserves, and the kernels eaten

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Idea for a video-phone using neon tubes to give the picture display, c1927

Idea for a video-phone using neon tubes to give the picture display, c1927. Illustration of a system proposed by Herbert Eugene Ives (1883-1952), American physicist and inventor

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Abel Pifres solar-powered printing press, c1894 ([c1927)

Abel Pifres solar-powered printing press, c1894 ([c1927). This used Augustin Mouchots solar engine in which a mirror focused the Suns rays onto a small boiler (patented in 1861)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880. Artist: Geoffrey Douglas Giles

Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880. Artist: Geoffrey Douglas Giles
Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880. Members of the Middlesex (Victoria Rifles) Volunteers, 4th Volunteer Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps, signalling

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: The Progress of Steam. A View in Regents Park, 1831, 1828

The Progress of Steam. A View in Regents Park, 1831, 1828. Steam-powered coaches, horses, tricycles, including one with body like a teapot

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand, London, c1820

Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand, London, c1820. Edward Cross kept his menagerie here until Exeter Change was demolished in 1829 and he moved it to the Surrey Gardens, Walworth c1830

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Demonstration or Cause & Effect, 1817

Demonstration or Cause & Effect, 1817

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Mr O Brien, the Irish Giant, the Tallest Man in the Known World, 1803. Artist: John Kay

Mr O Brien, the Irish Giant, the Tallest Man in the Known World, 1803. Artist: John Kay
Mr O Brien, the Irish Giant, the Tallest Man in the Known World, 1803. Patrick O Brien (c1765-1804), the Irish giant, being measured for a suit by an Edinburgh tailor

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Girls Playground and Waterfall at Bournville, 1892

Girls Playground and Waterfall at Bournville, 1892. Bournville was the ideal village built near Birmingham for their employees by the chocolate manufacturers Cadburys

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: A Quiet Corner at Bournville, 1892

A Quiet Corner at Bournville, 1892. Young women reading in the communal gardens of the ideal village built near Birmingham for their employees by the chocolate manufacturers Cadburys

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Whitby harbour, Yorkshire, at the mouth of the river Esk, c1833

Whitby harbour, Yorkshire, at the mouth of the river Esk, c1833. The old drawbridge, separating the upper and lower harbours, which was raised to let sailing vessels pass

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Pound lock, 1664

Pound lock, 1664. The vessel has entered the pound from the lower level on the left, the gate has been closed behind it and water is being allowed to flow through the gate on the right

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Von Guerickes demonstration of the power of air pressure, 1672

Von Guerickes demonstration of the power of air pressure, 1672. A platform was suspended from the bottom of an evacuated sphere made up of two copper hemispheres

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Von Guerickes demonstration of the strength of a vacuum, 1654 (1672)

Von Guerickes demonstration of the strength of a vacuum, 1654 (1672). The man on the right is using an air pump to create the vacuum

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Experiment designed to show that air has weight, 1672

Experiment designed to show that air has weight, 1672. From Experimenta Nova ut vocantur Magdeburgica De Vacuo Spatio (New Magdeburg Experiments About the Vacuum by Otto von Guericke)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Crystallization of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683

Crystallization of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683. Saltpetre is the principal ingredient in gunpowder, and is still used in the preservation of some foods

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683

Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683. Saltpetre is the principal ingredient in gunpowder, and is still used in the preservation of some foods

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683

Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683. 1) Athanor or Slow Harry, a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Production of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683

Production of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683. Nitre beds, heaps of manure mixed with chalky earth. These were watered with urine and manure water

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Distillation of Nitric Acid, 1683

Distillation of Nitric Acid, 1683. Also known as Aqua Fortis or Parting Acid, nitric acid was widely used in the refining and assaying of metals

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Athanor or Slow Harry, a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683

Athanor or Slow Harry, a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683. Centre: 1) Athanor or Slow Harry ; 2) side chambers containing reagents; 3) glass receivers

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Furnace for processes where protracted heat required, such as cementation, 1580

Furnace for processes where protracted heat required, such as cementation, 1580
Furnace for processes where protracted heat required, such as cementation, 1683. This furnace is gravity-fed and self-stoking

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Washing ore to extract gold, 1683

Washing ore to extract gold, 1683. Water is fed into a sieve containing crushed ore. The solution containing ore in suspension is fed along collecting pans, often lined with dark woollen cloth

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Double inclined plane for moving tub boats from one level to another on a canal, 1796

Double inclined plane for moving tub boats from one level to another on a canal, 1796. Boats were lowered on rails and counterbalanced by a tub containing water

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Inclined planes for use on canals, 1796

Inclined planes for use on canals, 1796. Top: double inclined plane. Middle: upper works of a single inclined plane. Bottom: upper works of a medium inclined plane powered by a water wheel

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Inclined plane powered by water wheel in used on a canal, 1796

Inclined plane powered by water wheel in used on a canal, 1796
Inclined plane powered by water wheel in use on a canal, 1796. The inclined plane was used to transfer vessels, in this case tub boats

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Christian Friedrich Schonbein, German chemist, c1898

Christian Friedrich Schonbein, German chemist, c1898. Schonbein (1799-1869) began his investigation of ozone in 1839. He worked on nitrocellulose and produced gunoctton for use in firearms in 1846

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: John Ross, British polar explorer and naval officer, 19th century

John Ross, British polar explorer and naval officer, 19th century. In 1818 Ross (1800-1862) led an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, British industrialist, c1926

Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, British industrialist, c1926
Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, British industrialist and politician, c1926. The son of Ludwig Mond, Lord Melchett (1868-1930) became the first Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, 20th century

Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, 20th century. Millikan (1868-1953) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his determination of the charge of the electron

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, c1830. Artist: William Home Lizars

Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, c1830. Artist: William Home Lizars
Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, c1830. Humboldts (1769-1859) interests included geophysics, geology and botany and he is sometimes called the founder of ecology

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist, c1895

Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist, c1895. Fraunhofer (1787-1826) founded an optical institute at Munich in 1807. His improvements to prisms

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist, 1870

Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist, 1870. Fizeau (1819-1896) measured the velocity of light on the Earths surface (1849). He used Dopplers principle to determine the velocity of stars in line of

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, 19th century

Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, 19th century. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte du Buffon, French naturalist, 1761

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte du Buffon, French naturalist, 1761. Author of the encyclopedic 44-volume Histoire Naturelle, Buffon (1707-1778) proposed that the Earth existed before 4004 BC

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: William Henry Bragg, English physicist, early 20th century

William Henry Bragg, English physicist, early 20th century
William Henry Bragg, English physicist, 20th century. The founder of X-ray crystallography, Bragg (1862-1942) is shown here using an X-ray spectrometer

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: James Brindley, English civil engineer and canal builder, c1770 (1835)

James Brindley, English civil engineer and canal builder, c1770 (1835). Brindley (1716-1772) rests a hand on a theodolite and points to the aqueduct over the Irwell on the Worsley to Manchester

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: David Brewster, Scottish physicist, 1868

David Brewster, Scottish physicist, 1868. Brewster (1781-1868) was editor of the Edinburgh Magazine, 1802 and the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 1808. His scientific work was mainly in the field of optics

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Jean and Jacques Bernoulli working on geometrical problems, 18th century, (1874)

Jean and Jacques Bernoulli working on geometrical problems, 18th century, (1874). Jacques (Jakob) Bernoulli (1654-1705) and his brother Jean (Johann) Bernoulli (1667-1748)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Pierre Belon, French naturalist, 1553 (1762)

Pierre Belon, French naturalist, 1553 (1762). Belon (1517-1564), aged 36. Financed by the Cardinal of Tournon, Belon undertook extensive travels through Greece, Asia Minor, Arabia

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: The Iron Horse Past and Present, c1900

The Iron Horse Past and Present, c1900. The development of the railway locomotive from George Stephensons Rocket of 1829, through North Star which worked on the Great Western Railway 1836-1870



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