Popular Science Collection (page 3)

Electrical power station, 1890
Electrical power station. 19th-century artwork of the inside of an electrical power station built for the Halles area of Paris, France

Electric dynamo, 1890 C013 / 9045
Electric dynamo. 19th-century artwork of a Ferranti electric dynamo, as constructed by the London Electric Supply Corporation

Electric dynamo armature, 1890 C013 / 9044
Electric dynamo armature. 19th-century artwork of the armature of a Ferranti electric dynamo, as constructed by the London Electric Supply Corporation

Camille Douls, French explorer
Camille Douls (1864-1889), French explorer. Douls explored North Africa and the French (western) area of the Sahara in two expeditions of 1887 and 1889

Linotype typesetting machine, 1889
Linotype typesetting machine. 19th-century artwork showing a printer operating a newly invented typesetting machine called the linotype

Steam locomotive cabin, 1889 C013 / 8796
Steam locomotive cabin. 19th-century artwork of the operating platform for an express locomotive used on the French railways in the 1880s. Various components and levers are labelled with letters

Magnetism experiment, 1889 C013 / 8789
Magnetism experiment. 19th-century artwork of an experiment being carried out with a permanent horseshoe magnet (left), a cylindrical solenoid armature (a temporary magnet)

Magnetism experiment, 1889 C013 / 8787
Magnetism experiment. 19th-century artwork of a permanent iron magnet in a form called a horseshoe magnet, placed on an electromagnet (two coils of wire around metal cores)

Peral submarine, 1889
Peral submarine. 19th-century artwork of the Spanish Peral electric submarine on the surface at docks before submergence. This was the worlds first submarine to be powered by electric batteries

Titan arum flowering at Kew, 1889
Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) flowering at Kew and being viewed by a visiting family, 19th-century artwork. The titan arum, native to Sumatra, Indonesia, is one of the worlds largest flowers

Telegraph office battery room, 1889
Telegraph office battery room. 19th-century artwork showing workers producing and maintaining wet-cell batteries used to provide power in a telegraph office

Henri Bouley, French veterinarian
Henri Bouley (1814-1885), French veterinarian. Bouley, professor and director at the veterinary school at Maisons-Alfort, was made Inspector-General of veterinary schools in 1866

Wind speed and direction recorder, 1889 C013 / 8785
Wind speed and direction recorder, 19th-century artwork. This meteorological device is an anemo-cinemographe, a form of anemograph

Compound steam locomotive, 1889
Compound steam locomotive, 19th-century artwork. Compound steam engines increased efficiency by expanding steam in two or more phases rather than just one

Paraffin press, 1889 C013 / 8779
Paraffin press. 19th-century artwork of a machine used to produced solid paraffin wax from the paraffin distillate produced from crude oil

Webb compound steam locomotive, 1889
Webb compound steam locomotive, 19th-century artwork. Compound steam engines increased efficiency by expanding steam in two or more phases rather than just one

Speed of sound experiment, 1826
Speed of sound experiment. 19th-century artwork of an experiment that took place in 1826 to measure the speed of sound in water

Spectrum of light experiment, 1889 C013 / 8772
Spectrum of light experiment. 19th-century artwork showing a method of obtaining a spectrum of colours from sunlight. A beam of light allowed in through a shutter is falling on a bowl of water in

Daniel Colladon, Swiss physicist
Daniel Colladon (1802-1893), Swiss physicist. Colladon developed a technique for illuminating water fountains. The principle involved light being trapped in the water by total internal reflection

Eiffel Towers electric lamp, 1889
Eiffel Towers electric lamp. 19th-century artwork of the large electric light (100 amps, 500 horsepower, 8 million carcels)

Viewing platform, 1889 Paris Expo. 19th-century artwork of a display of a new technology, an overhead mobile viewing platform at the Universal Exposition (World Fair) of 1889 in Paris, France

Eiffel Tower lift and hydraulics, 1889 C013 / 8760
Eiffel Tower lift and hydraulics. 19th-century artwork of one of the Roux-Combaluzier cable-driven lifts, as used in the East and West legs of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

Ferdinand Dutert, French architect
Ferdinand Dutert (1845-1906), French architect. Dutert studied at the French National School of Fine Arts in Paris. He also received a Prix de Rome scholarship in 1869

Wells pneumatic oil lamps, 1889 C013 / 8764
Wells pneumatic oil lamps. 19th-century artwork showing three models of Wells lamps, a type of pneumatic oil lamp developed in the 1880s

Illuminated fountains display, 1889
Illuminated fountains display. 19th-century artwork of a man operating one of the illuminated fountain displays installed for the Universal Exposition (World Fair) of 1889 in Paris, France

Dredging New York, 19th century
Dredging New York harbour. The steamboat at left is using an apparatus suspended below it to survey the harbour floor and take soundings to determine which areas need dredging

Russian imperial hunting party, 1890
Russian imperial hunting party, India. The animal that has been shot here is a leopard. In the front row, from left to right

Illuminated star chart, 19th century
Illuminated star chart, being used to show amateur astronomers the position of the stars. Artwork from the tenth volume (second period of 1892)

Egg chemical reaction, 19th century
Egg chemical reaction. The reaction uses hydrochloric acid which reacts with the calcium carbonate in the egg shell to produce the white foam seen here (due to the carbon dioxide produced)

Head shape variation, 19th century
Head shape variation. Array of head shape drawings for named French soldiers, lawyers, and politicians, collected as part of an anthropological study. Others studied (not shown) included criminals

Becquerel phosphoroscope, 19th century
Becquerel phosphoroscope. This device, invented by the French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891), is used to measure the time taken for a phosphorescent material to stop glowing

Adolphe Hirsch, German astronomer
Adolphe Hirsch (1830-1901), German astronomer. Artwork from the ninth volume (first period of 1892) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Tunnel construction, 19th century
Tunnel construction. Hydraulic rams around the circular cutting face push it forward, with the excavated soil and earth being removed by men and donkey-drawn carts

Electric carillon, 19th century
Electric carillon. This device is a set of bells tuned to ring different notes, operated by a keyboard. Here, the apparatus uses electric wires to transmit signals from the keys to the bells

Photographic industry, 19th century
Photographic industry. Production line for the manufacturing of photographic emulsion plates. The emulsions used in photography consist of light-sensitive chemicals mixed on an underlying base

Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor
Johann Philipp Reis (1834-1874), German inventor of an early telephone. Reis built a prototype telephone in 1860, but he found it difficult to interest people in his invention

Photographic laboratory, 19th century
Photographic laboratory. Photographer developing positive plates in a laboratory. As opposed to negatives, these are positives, but are still used in a similar way to produce photographic prints

Nitrogen triiodide, 19th century
Nitrogen triiodide experiment. Apparatus being used to produce the sensitive contact explosive nitrogen triiodide. A feather is being used to handle the material to avoid it exploding

Electrical certification, 19th century
Electrical certification. This is the calibration room of the Central Electricity Laboratory (Laboratoire Central d Electricite, LCE), Paris, France

Bicycle diagram, 19th century
Bicycle diagram. Artwork from the tenth volume (second period of 1892) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Railway signalman, 19th century
Railway signalman operating train track switches and holding a furled signal flag. The first mechanised and centralised railway switching system dates from 1856

Jacquard loom, 19th century
Jacquard loom. This device for weaving textiles was invented in 1804 by the French weaver and inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834)

Telephone headphones, 19th century
Telephone headphones. This telephone represented an advance on earlier models as it included headphones (lower right). It was known as a bi-telephone

Charcoal production, 19th century
Charcoal production. Pile of wood that has been covered with turf and clay before being lit to produce charcoal in a slow and controlled burning process

Hotel telephones, 19th century
Hotel telephones. This is a US hotel, with telephones provided in the bedrooms. The first practical telephones were developed in the 1870s

Paris water supplies, 19th century
Paris water supplies. Worker (top) operating a valve to control the supply of drinking water from a reservoir into the water supply system (bottom) under Montsouris, Paris, France

Diffraction demonstration, 19th century
Diffraction demonstration using a sheet of mica. Mica has highly ordered cleavage planes and crystals, allowing sheets of this silicate mineral to be used to demonstrate diffraction of a candle

Electric incubator, 19th century
Electric incubator. Caricature of a man being kept alive in an electric incubator. This refers to the incubator designed and built by a French medical engineer named Sulfatin

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