Oxford Science Archive (page 12)

Watt's First Experiment, 18th century, (c1870) Herbert Bourne

Watering cart for keeping down dust on roads, 1808 William Henry Pyne

Water vole (Arvicola terrestris), also known as the black water rat, 1828 Unknown

Washington Augustus Roebling, American civil engineer, 1883 Unknown

Washing, c1845 Robert Kent Thomas

Washing ore to extract gold, 1683 Unknown

Wallace Hume Carothers, American industrial chemist, c1927-1937 Unknown

Wall mounted telephone, c1910 Unknown

Von Guericke's water barometer, 1672 Unknown

Von Guericke's demonstration of the strength of air pressure, 1672 Unknown

Von Guericke's demonstration of the strength of a vacuum, 1654 (1672) Unknown

Von Guericke's demonstration of the power of air pressure, 1672 Unknown

Volunteer women drivers in a Wolseley, donated towards the war effort, Cambridge, World War I, 1915 Unknown

Volunteer English woman driver washing down her ambulance, Cambridge, World War I, 1915 Unknown

Voltaic battery (pile), 1887 Unknown

Volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon, lo, 1979 Unknown

Voisin biplane, 1910 Unknown

Villa Tournesol, 1899 Unknown

View of Sunderland and the Iron Bridge looking eastwards, 1833 Unknown

View of Mars, August 1976 Unknown

View of Mars, August 1976 Unknown

Viaduct on the Baltimore & Washington Railroad, c1838 Henry Adlard

Vesuvius erupting, Italy, c1815 Unknown

Ventilation shaft in Kilsby Tunnel, Northamptonshire, London & Birmingham Railway, 1839 John Cooke Bourne

Various types of bacteria, 1889 Unknown

Various substances fluorescing in vacuum tubes of different shapes, 1903 Unknown

Various representations of hydrodynamics, Wurtemberg, c1850 Unknown

Various pumps for raising water, 1816 Unknown

Various pumps for draining ships, 1816 Unknown

Various musical instruments and sounds, Wurtemberg, c1850 Unknown

Using gunpowder in a stone quarry, 1867 Anonymous

Using astrolabes to calculate the height of a steeple, 1539 Petrus Apianus

Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551 Unknown

Using a laryngoscope to aid the removal of a polyp from the throat, c1890 Unknown

Using a cross-staff to measure the height of a tower, 1617-1619 Unknown

Use of the magnetic compass in map making, 1643 Unknown