Oxford Science Archive (page 11)

Woman and children coal 'putters', Mid and East Lothian, Scotland, c1848 Unknown

Woman and children coal 'putters', Mid and East Lothian, Scotland, 1848 J Christie

Woman and boy drawing a corve containing 3-4 cwt of coal, Bolton, Lancashire, 1848 Unknown

Woman 'putter' dragging a sledge of coal along a narrow seam, South Wales, c1848 Unknown

Wilson's cloud chamber, c1927 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

William Wilberforce, philanthropist, evangelical Christian and anti-slavery campaigner, 1821 Unknown

William Somerset Maugham, British author of novels, plays and short stories, 1927 Anonymous

William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, 1908 Spy

William Lee, English inventor of the frame-knitting machine, 19th century Unknown

William Jessop, British civil engineer, c1860 Unknown

William Huggins, British astronomer and spectroscopist, 1903 Spy

William Herschel's reflecting telescope of 40 ft (12 m) focal length, 1789 (1807) Unknown

William Henry Bragg, English physicist, early 20th century Unknown

William Harvey, English physician, in Windsor Park, 17th century (1870) Unknown

William Harvey demonstrating to King Charles I his theory of the circulation of the blood, 1851 H Lemon

William Harvey (1578-1657) English physician, c17th century Unknown

William Harvey (1578-1657) English physician, c17th century Unknown

William Harvey (1578-1657) English physician, c17th century Unknown

William Crookes, British physicist and chemist, 1903 Spy

William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone's five-needle telegraph, patented 1837, (19th century) Unknown

William Bowman, English anatomist, surgeon and ophthalmologist, 1884 Edward Linley Sambourne

William Bowman, English anatomist, surgeon and ophthalmologist, 1880 Lock & Whitfield

William Archibald Spooner, British clergyman and educationalist, 1898 Spy

Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, German physicist, 1902. Anonymous

Wilhelm Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist and physicist, c1871 Unknown

White Horse Hill, Berkshire, late 18th century Unknown

White dwarf stars in Globular Cluster M4H Bond (STSCI) Unknown

Whitby harbour, Yorkshire, at the mouth of the river Esk, c1833 Unknown

Westminster Bridge, London, looking from the south bank of the Thames, 1858 Unknown

Welding bicycle frames in an American factory, 1900 Unknown

Welding a bicycle frame, France, 1896 Unknown

Weighing with a steelyard, 1547 Gaultherius Rivius

Wedgewood plaque of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) Unknown

Wedding party on bicycles led by the bride and bridegroom, Nice, France, 1909 Unknown

Webb's chemical factory, Diglis, Worcestershire, 1869 Unknown

Weasel (Putorius nivalis/Mustela vulgaris), the smallest European carnivore, 1828 Unknown