Oxford Science Archive (page 22)

Private and Confidential, opening of the Anglo-French telephone line, 1891 John Tenniel

Print satirising Franz Anton Mesmer, 1784 Unknown

Principal Observatory, Siam, 1875 Unknown

Preparing and setting a Dynamite charge, Paris, 1890 Unknown

Preparation of copper and silver to be alloyed for production of coins, 1683 Unknown

Prehistoric Peeps: A Night Lecture on Evolution, 1894. Edward Tennyson Reed

Pre-binomial classification of species, 1644 Unknown

Prairie Fires of the Great West, USA, 1871 Currier and Ives

Pound lock, 1664 Unknown

Potato peeler, 1899 Unknown

Post mill, 1620 Unknown

Portrait photography as a fitting career for a young woman, 1884 Unknown

Portrait photographer's studio, c1880 Unknown

Portable threshing machine, c1910 Unknown

Portable tent type of camera obscura, 1764 Unknown

Pollen mass of Orchis mascula when first attached (A) and after depression (B), 1899 Unknown

Polishing the mirror of the Hubble Telescope, 1980s Unknown

Polecat (Mustela putorius), member of the weasel family, 1828 Unknown

Poisonous plants, c1885 Unknown

Plymouth Breakwater from the West, 1829 Thomas Allom

Plato, Ancient Greek philosopher Unknown

Platinum still for concentrating sulphuric acid (Oil of Vitriol or H2S04), 1844 Unknown

Plate measuring microscope, 1895 Unknown

Plaquette commemorating the death of Henri Poincare, French mathematician, 1912 Unknown

Plaquette commemorating the death of Henri Poincare, French mathematician, 1912 Unknown

Planimeter used in conjunction with a set square for surveying, 1605 Unknown

Planchette or ouija board, 1885 Unknown

Planchette or Ouija board, 1885 Unknown

Pithead at Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, 1860 Unknown

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French astronomer and mathematician, in Finland, 1736, (1874) Unknown

Pierre-Alexander Darracq, French automobile manufacturer, 1901 Emile Cohl

Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, 18th century Unknown

Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer, 1833 Unknown

Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer, French and English astronomers, 1868 Unknown

Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist, 17th century Claude Mellan

Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot, French organic chemist and politician, c1885 Pierre Petit