Oxford Science Archive (page 9)

Waterloo Bridge, London, across the Thames, 1817 Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

Post mill, Wimbledon Common, near London, c1840 Castle

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish naturalist W Evans

The Printer's Workshop, 1568 Jost Amman

Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, from the garden, 1883 Unknown

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, c1906 Unknown

Workers at Nobel Explosives Company Limited, Ardeer, Ayrshire, 1884 Unknown

Thomas Young (1773-1829), physicist and Egyptologist, 19th century Unknown

Frozen materials viewed by English microscopist Robert Hooke, 1665 Unknown

Percussion pendulum, 1725 Unknown

Explanation of principles of physics, 1725 Unknown

George Atwood's machine for demonstrating the effect of gravity on falling bodies, c1780 Unknown

Typewriter patented by John Pratt in 1866 (1915) Unknown

Advertisement for Edison phonograph cylinder recordings, 1900 Unknown

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1917 Unknown

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist Unknown

Apparatus used by Pierre and Marie Curie in their research into radium, 1904 Unknown

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory, 1912 Unknown

Camera Obscura, 1671 Unknown

Examining a patient's thorax using an X-ray tube and fluorescent screen, 1903 Unknown

Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist Unknown

Alessandro Volta's wet pile battery, 1800 Unknown

Alchemical laboratory showing various forms of furnace and vessels, 1652 Unknown

Packing and weighing tea for export on a Ceylon (Sri Lanka) estate, 1905 Unknown

William Wollaston's reflecting goniometer for measuring the angles of crystals, 1874 Unknown

Lord Kelvin, Scottish mathematician and physicist, with his compass, 1902 James Craig Annan

Making pots without a wheel, Nigeria, c1966 Unknown

Michael Faraday lecturing on electricity and magnetism, Royal Institution, London, 1846 Unknown

Water! Water! Everywhere; and not a Drop to Drink, 1849 Unknown

Medal commemorating Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals Unknown

Essence of Parliament, 1883 Harry Furniss

Battle of Agincourt, Hundred Years War, 25 October 1415 (1825) A Smith

Theory of Continental Drift, 1922 Unknown

Comet Shoemaker-Levy colliding with Jupiter, 20 July 1994 Unknown

Saturn, Roman god of time, 1569 Anonymous

Divine harmony, 1617-1619 Anonymous