History Of Science Collection (page 3)

NPL headquarters, 1906
NPL headquarters. Bushy House, the NPL (National Physical Laboratory) headquarters, not only contained numerous research laboratories but also was the venue of NPL staff garden parties

Campbell standard of mutual inductance. Mr A. Campbell designed this standard of mutual inductance in 1907-8. Two single-layer copper coils (upper and lower centre)

Historical celestial system. Illustration of the celestial system proposed by Athanasius Kircher in his 1660 work Iter extaticum coeleste

Ship testing tank, being filled with water from a hose pipe (bottom). This tank was used to test models of ships being developed by engineers

Danish warship

Pharos lighthouse, Ptolemaic Egypt
Pharos lighthouse. Historical artwork showing what the Pharos lighthouse at Alexandria, Egypt, in the third century BC, might have looked like

Soviet Arctic explorer Papanin, 1937
Soviet Arctic explorer Ivan Papanin (1894-1986) in 1937 while commanding the first Soviet drifting station " North Pole-1". Expedition members and equipment are in the background

Ilyushin and test pilot Kokkinaki, 1942
Soviet aircraft designer Sergei Ilyushin (centre right) and test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki (left, in overalls), talking with a group of soldiers in front of an aircraft during World War II

Nikolai Dubinin, Russian geneticist
Nikolai Petrovich Dubinin (1907-1998), Russian geneticist, examining microscope slides in a laboratory. Dubinin was one of the founding members of the Cytology

The London Steam Carriage 1803
This was designed by Richard Trevethick and Andrew Vivian. The parts for the vehicle were made in Falmouth and assembled at Feltons Carriage Works, London

Megalosaurus jaw, 19th century artwork
Megalosaurus lower jaw, 19th century artwork. Artwork from the 1886 ninth edition of Moses and Geology (Samuel Kinns, London). This book was originally published in 1882

Fish embryo, artwork
Fish embryo. Historical artwork showing stages in the development of a fish embryo. Figures 1 and 2 show gastrulation, the process of differentiation whereby the 3 germ layers (ectoderm)

Andromeda constellation. Illustrated card from a 19th century astronomical teaching aid called Uranias Mirror, after the Greek muse of astronomy

An engraving depicting a refracting stereoscope: two pictures of Charles Wheatstone taken from slightly different
5310658 An engraving depicting a refracting stereoscope: two pictures of Charles Wheatstone taken from slightly different angles. When placed in the stereoscope they gave a third-dimensional picture

Engraving depicting Christiaan Huygens' cycloidal pendulum
5309456 Engraving depicting Christiaan Huygens' cycloidal pendulum; (add.info.: Engraving depicting Christiaan Huygens' cycloidal pendulum)

Engraving depicting an electroplating bath with part of the side cut-away to arrangement of items to be silver plated
5309409 Engraving depicting an electroplating bath with part of the side cut-away to arrangement of items to be silver plated; (add.info)

Cartoon depicting a biological engineer in his laboratory
5309390 Cartoon depicting a biological engineer in his laboratory; (add.info.: Cartoon depicting a biological engineer in his laboratory)

A magnifying glass in a tube, simple microscope, and diminishing lens, 17th century
5311406 A magnifying glass in a tube, simple microscope, and diminishing lens, 17th century; Universal History Archive/UIG.

An engraving depicting a statue of Edward Jenner vaccinating his son. Edward Jenner (1749-1823)
5311069 An engraving depicting a statue of Edward Jenner vaccinating his son. Edward Jenner (1749-1823) an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine

Nikola Tesla
3586131 Nikola Tesla; (add.info.: Illustration depicting Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist

John Tyndall
3586068 John Tyndall; (add.info.: Satirical cartoon depicting John Tyndall (1820-1893) an Irish physicist. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
3585897 Charles-Adolphe Wurtz; (add.info.: Portrait of Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) am Alsatian French chemist. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Mary Somerville
3585934 Mary Somerville; (add.info.: Portrait of Mary Somerville (1780-1872) a Scottish science writer and polymath. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester
3585919 Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester; (add.info.: Portrait of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (1602-1667) an English nobleman involved in royalist politics and an inventor

Gaston Tissandier
3586337 Gaston Tissandier; (add.info.: Illustration depicting Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) a French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Louis-Sebastien Lenormand's parachute
3732756 Louis-Sebastien Lenormand's parachute; (add.info.: Engraving depicting Louis-Sebastien Lenormand parachute. Louis-Sebastien Lenormand (1757-1837) a French chemist, physicist

A Zenith telescope
3732401 A Zenith telescope; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a Zenith telescope, a type of telescope designed to point straight up at or near the Zenith)

The days of the week in the order of the supposed distance of the planets from the Earth
3740671 The days of the week in the order of the supposed distance of the planets from the Earth; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the days of the week in the order of the supposed distance of)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626607 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustration of a Deer and a Stag, from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626586 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustration of a chameleon, from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626571 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustration of a bat, from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626567 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustrations of a rat, and a hippopotamus, from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626606 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustration of a hedgehog, from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626590 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustration of a goose from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626588 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustration of a sea turtle, from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626584 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustration of an eagle, from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626575 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustration of whaling and whales, from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book)

Medicine almanac
2626739 Medicine almanac; (add.info.: By the end of the 19th century, at least one patent medicine almanac was printed for every two Americans)

Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t
2626692 Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t; (add.info.: Illustration depicting Jinns, divs, and devils, from 1538 edition, of 'Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d)

Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t
2626691 Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t; (add.info.: Illustration depicting female demon figures, from 1538 edition, of 'Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d)

The process of making prosthetics
2626726 The process of making prosthetics; (add.info.: "From Stump to Limb," on the making of prosthetics, by the manufacturer A. A. Marks, late 1800s.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t
2626713 Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t; (add.info.: Illustration depicting Peacock and bird native to the Middle East, from 1538 edition, of 'Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q)

Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t
2626710 Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a Sea monster, from 1538 edition, of 'Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t')

Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t
2626702 Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t; (add.info.: Illustration depicting Scorpio and Sagittarius, from 1538 edition, of 'Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d)

Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t
2626699 Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t; (add.info.: Illustration depicting Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, from 1538 edition, of 'Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj)

Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t
2626689 Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t; (add.info.: Illustration depicting animals from 1538 edition, of 'Kit?b-I ?aj?y?b al-makhl?q?t va ghar??ib al-mawj?d?t')

Micrographia
2626678 Micrographia; (add.info.: Illustration from 'Micrographia' 1665; by Robert Hooke, 1635-1703. Hooke's observations through various lenses)

Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium
2626613 Medici Tigurini Historiae animalium; (add.info.: Illustration of a Rhinoscerous from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book)

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The history of science is a fascinating journey that has shaped our understanding of the world. From the groundbreaking discoveries to the innovative inventions, each milestone has contributed to our current knowledge and technological advancements. In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table revolutionized chemistry by organizing elements based on their properties and atomic weights. This iconic creation paved the way for further scientific exploration and experimentation. Even in medieval times, celestial mechanics fascinated scholars who depicted this intricate subject in their artwork. The intricate illustrations showcased not only their artistic skills but also their curiosity about the workings of the universe. Richard Feynman, a renowned physicist known for his contributions to quantum mechanics, was immortalized in a caricature that captured his brilliance and eccentricity. His work continues to inspire scientists around the globe. Evariste Galois left behind a part of his manuscript before his untimely death at just 20 years old. This document revealed profound insights into algebraic equations and laid the foundation for modern abstract algebra. Stephenson's Rocket, an early steam locomotive from 1829, marked a significant leap forward in transportation technology. Its design influenced future developments in railway engineering and propelled industrial progress. Historical artwork depicting bee anatomy showcases humanity's fascination with nature's intricacies. These detailed illustrations not only served as educational tools but also highlighted our desire to understand every aspect of life on Earth. The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 resulted in mesmerizing sunsets that inspired artists worldwide. Through their artworks, they captured both beauty and chaos while reminding us of nature's awe-inspiring power. Title pages from Pacciolis Summa de Arithmetica reflect humankind's quest for mathematical knowledge throughout history. These ancient texts demonstrate how mathematics played an essential role even centuries ago. Dmitri Mendeleev himself became a subject of caricatures due to his influential work on chemistry’s periodic table. These humorous depictions celebrated his contributions and made science more accessible to the public.