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Construction of Tower Bridge, 1890s
Construction of Tower Bridge, 19th-century artwork. This bridge across the River Thames in London, UK, was constructed from 1886 to 1894

Natural gas well, 19th century
Natural gas well, 19th-century artwork. Drilling of a natural gas well in Kansas, USA. Commercial drilling for oil and natural gas in Kansas began in 1892

Otto Lilienthals glider, 19th century
Otto Lilienthals glider in flight, 19th-century artwork. Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) was a German aviation pioneer, who became known as the Glider King for his many experiments with gliders

Plantation forestry, 19th century
Plantation forestry, 19th-century artwork. Loggers working in tandem with a large hand-saw to fell a large pine tree on a plantation in the USA

Underwater photography, 19th century
Underwater photography, 19th-century artwork. French zoologist Louis Boutan (1859-1934) taking an underwater photograph in 1893. He is in a diving suit holding his camera

John Tyndall, Irish physicist
John Tyndall (1820-1893), Irish physicist. Tyndall was a surveyor and engineer before studying physics and becoming a professor at the Royal Institution, London, in 1854

Elevator motor, 19th century
Elevator motor, 19th-century artwork. Details of the motor and winch for an electric elevator. Electric elevators were being installed in many city buildings as electrical power became more widely

Electric elevator, 19th century
Electric elevator, 19th-century artwork. Details of the mechanism of an electric elevator installed in a private residence

Photomechanical prints, 19th century

Electric tramway generator, 19th century
Electric tramway generator, 19th-century artwork. This is the power generation room for an electric tramway system in New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Harmonograph images, 19th century

Georges Pouchet, French naturalist
Georges Pouchet (1833-1894), French naturalist. Pouchet, the son of the naturalist Felix Pouchet, worked as an anatomist at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, France

Tyre advertisement, 19th century
Tyre advertisement, 19th-century artwork. This large tricycle was built in the USA in the 1890s to advertise rubber tyres

Stentzels flying machine, 19th century
Stentzels flying machine, 19th-century artwork. This flying machine was designed by an Arthur Stentzel, from Altona, Prussia (now Germany)

Hydroelectric generators, 19th century
Hydroelectric generators, 19th-century artwork. These generators are part of the hydroelectric power station built from 1895 on the US side of Niagara Falls

Electrical experiment, early 20th century

Pedal-powered boat, 19th century
Pedal-powered boat, 19th-century artwork. Known as the cycloscaphe, this invention had three men using pedals to turn a chain (at rear) that is connected to a propeller underneath the boat

Iguana, 19th century

Industrial ice production, 19th century
Industrial ice production, 19th-century artwork. This is an ice factory from the 1890s, a period when a variety of methods were being used to produce artificial ice

Celestial soldiers, 16th century
Celestial soldiers, 16th-century artwork. This artwork is from Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon (1557) by the German author Conrad Lycosthenes (1518-1561)

German military airship, 19th century
German military airship, 19th-century artwork based on a photograph. There were many attempts during the 19th century to design and build balloons or airships that were capable of powered flight

Eugene Catalan, French mathematician

Foundling tower, 19th century
Foundling tower, 19th-century artwork. This tower of abandonment, established in France 1730, is intended for mothers unable to support their infant children to leave them to be brought up by others

Vending machine, 19th century
Vending machine, 19th-century artwork. Design for a pig-shaped electric vending machine. This vending machine was designed by the US inventor John Milo, of New York City

Magnetic game, 19th century
Magnetic game, 19th-century artwork. Mans hand using a magnet to play a game of jackstraws. Also known as pick-up sticks, this game involves dropping a bundle of sticks on a surface to form a jumbled

Aurora borealis, 19th century
Aurora borealis, 19th-century artwork. The aurora is a coloured light display visible in the night sky at high latitudes. It occurs when charged particles from the Sun are drawn by Earths magnetic

Levitation trick, 19th century

Alphonse Bertillon, French police officer
Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), French police officer and biometrics pioneer. Bertillon developed a general identification system in 1883 for use by the police

Vegetable hygrometer, 19th century
Vegetable hygrometer, 19th-century artwork. Hygrometers are used to measure relative humidity, which can be used to predict the approach of rain

Steam locomotives, early 20th century
Steam locomotives, early 20th-century artwork. Steam train technology spread rapidly around the world. These locomotives are from different countries

Human-like rock formation, 19th century
Human-like rock formation, 19th-century artwork. Seen from this angle, this rock formation looks like a human face seen in profile

Artificial lightning, early 20th century
Artificial lightning, early 20th-century artwork. This example of an artificial lightning discharge has been produced as part of electrical experiments on high-voltage alternating current

Infant healthcare, early 20th century
Infant healthcare, early 20th-century artwork. Nurse washing and bathing an infant in a maternal institution in France in 1900. Another infant is at lower right

Edme Pajot, French physician
Charles Marie Edme Pajot (1816-1896), French physician. Pajot was an obstetrician and gynaecologist. He studied and worked in Paris

Acetylene lighting system, 19th century
Acetylene lighting system, 19th-century artwork. Also known as carbide lamps, this lighting system burnt the gas acetylene

Railroad drawbridge, 19th century
Railroad drawbridge, 19th-century artwork. This type of bridge is known as a bascule bridge. This one is near Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, on the Erie Railroad Main Line

Drinking water supply, 19th century

Police identity features, 19th century
Police identity features, 19th-century artwork. Various shapes of nose, ears, face and forehead, as used by the police to identify criminals who claim false identities

Gabriel Daubree, French geologist

Lemur, early 20th century

August Kekule, German chemist
August Kekule (1829-1896), German organic chemist. From 1858 Kekule developed a structural theory for carbon chemistry, based on its valency (bond-forming) of four

Mechanical buoy, 19th century

Redwood tree house, 19th century
Redwood tree house, 19th-century artwork. This is the General Noble Redwood Tree House, on the National Mall, in Washington DC, USA

Tram electrical systems, 19th century
Tram electrical systems, 19th-century artwork. Electrification of trams (also called streetcars) took place in the 1880s and 1890s

Trained dogs, 19th century
Trained dogs, 19th-century artwork. Woman instructing a trained dog to perform a leap. This is a Scottish deerhound, leaping to a height of 1.8 metres over a smaller dog on a pile of stools

Face mask production, 19th century
Face mask production, 19th-century artwork. During the 19th century, face masks of famous people, or fancy dress masks for use at masked balls, were popular

Dwarfism, 19th century
Dwarfism, 19th-century artwork. Burmese dwarfs Smaun (left) and Fatma (right) standing next to a champagne bottle. These two dwarfs, brother (Smaun) and sister (Fatma), had the surname Sing Hpoo

Mortise and tenon joint, 19th century
Mortise and tenon joint, 19th-century artwork. This is a particular type of mortise and tenon joint, known as a dovetail joint

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