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Images Dated 4th August 2005 (page 9)

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Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Isaac Judaeus, physician to the rulers of Tunisia, 9th-10th century (1493)

Isaac Judaeus, physician to the rulers of Tunisia, 9th-10th century (1493). Isaac Judaeus (c855-c955) was one of the first whose works were translated from Arabic to Latin

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Edwin Ray Lankester, British zoologist, 1905. Artist: Spy

Edwin Ray Lankester, British zoologist, 1905. Artist: Spy
Edwin Ray Lankester, British zoologist, 1905. Lankester (1847-1929) established clear morphological distinctions in different orders of invertebrates, demonstrating that they had different origins

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas, French organic chemist, 1873

Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas, French organic chemist, 1873. Dumas (1800-1884) did important work on organic analysis and synthesis, and the determination of atomic weights

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Henri Etienne St Claire Deville, 19th century French chemist, (c1955)

Henri Etienne St Claire Deville, 19th century French chemist, (c1955). In 1854 Deville (1818-1881) discovered the process for obtaining pure aluminium by reducing aluminium chloride with sodium

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande, French astronomer, 19th century

Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande, French astronomer, 19th century. Lalande (1732-1807) was professor of astronomy at the College de France for 46 years from 1760

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Reverse of a medal commemorating the brilliant comet of November 1618

Reverse of a medal commemorating the brilliant comet of November 1618. The message says that God sent us the starry comet as a warning to us to lead better lives

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Obverse of a medal commemorating the brilliant comet of November 1618

Obverse of a medal commemorating the brilliant comet of November 1618. This comet prompted many pamphlets, including Galileo Galileis (1564-1642) polemical masterpiece Il Saggiatore (The Assayer)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Reverse of a medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577

Reverse of a medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577
Reverse ofa medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577. Known as Brahes comet, this is the comet which convinced the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Obverse of a medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577

Obverse of a medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577. Known as Brahes comet, this is the comet which convinced the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Medal commemorating the discovery of smallpox vaccination in 1796 (1800)

Medal commemorating the discovery of smallpox vaccination in 1796 (1800)
Medal commemorating the discovery of smallpox vaccination in 1796, (1800). Children dancing round a garlanded cow. Edward Jenner (1749-1823)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Typical enlarged spleen of a Malaria patient, c1890

Typical enlarged spleen of a Malaria patient, c1890. Malaria is caused a parasitic protozoa transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Painting a wound with an antiseptic solution, c1890

Painting a wound with an antiseptic solution, c1890. From Les Grands Maux et les Grands Remedes (The Principal Illnesses and Their Remedies) by Jules Rengade. (Paris, c1890)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Using a laryngoscope to aid the removal of a polyp from the throat, c1890

Using a laryngoscope to aid the removal of a polyp from the throat, c1890. A small mirror on a long metal handle was invented in 1854 by a Spanish singing teacher Manuel Garcia (1805-1906)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Electric overhead monorail at Barmen-Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), Germany, 1901

Electric overhead monorail at Barmen-Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), Germany, 1901. This, the worlds first and oldest still operating

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Potato peeler, 1899

Potato peeler, 1899. A machine for washing, peeling and removing eyes and sprouts from potatoes. Les Inventions Illustrees. (Paris, May 1899)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Villa Tournesol, 1899

Villa Tournesol, 1899. A revolving clinic designed to take full advantage of the heat and light of the sun for therapeutic purposes

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Women washing the precious metal platinum from alluvial gravels, Urals, Russia, 1916

Women washing the precious metal platinum from alluvial gravels, Urals, Russia, 1916

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: The Wear above Sunderland Iron Bridge, c1829. Artist: R Francis

The Wear above Sunderland Iron Bridge, c1829. Artist: R Francis
The Wear above Sunderland Iron Bridge, c1829. The Wear was an important waterway for exporting the coal and chemical and industrial products of the area

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Cameramen under fire while filming in the First Balkan War, 1912

Cameramen under fire while filming in the First Balkan War, 1912. By 1912 cinemas were showing newsreels and war reporters were being accompanied by camera teams

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Killing Birds of Paradise, New Guinea, 1908

Killing Birds of Paradise, New Guinea, 1908. The European hunter has a gun, while the native is proving himself proficient with his bow and arrow

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Mendelian inheritance of colour of flower in the culinary pea, 1912

Mendelian inheritance of colour of flower in the culinary pea, 1912. Pink-flowered race (left), white-flowered race (right), and a cross between the two (centre)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Firing a cannon into clouds to prevent a hail storm, 1901

Firing a cannon into clouds to prevent a hail storm, 1901. It was claimed that rain fell instead of the anticipated hail which would have damaged the grape vines in the wine producing area of

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Various pumps for raising water, 1816

Various pumps for raising water, 1816. Including a triple pump (top right) and a man-powered balance pump (bottom right). From Encyclopaedia Londinensis. (London, 1816)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Seamen hauling a clinker-built dinghy up onto the shore, 1821

Seamen hauling a clinker-built dinghy up onto the shore, 1821. In this type of construction the planks of the vessel overlap the plank below and are fastened with clinched

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Glass cutter decorating table ware on a carborundum wheel, 1867

Glass cutter decorating table ware on a carborundum wheel, 1867. He turns the wheel by working a treadle with his foot. From Alphabet des Arts et Metiers. (Paris, 1867)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Ironing room in a laundry, 1867

Ironing room in a laundry, 1867. The washroom can be seen through the door in the background. On the left is the stove for heating flatirons

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Public weighbridge used to weigh cattle in a market, 1867

Public weighbridge used to weigh cattle in a market, 1867. Animals are placed on the weighing platform and an attendant in the kiosk weighs them using a weighing machine based on the principle of

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Cretin aged 15, c1890

Cretin aged 15, c1890.Cretinism in infants and children is caused by a defective thyroid gland and failure to produce the hormone thyroxine. Sufferers are mentally and physically retarded

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Solar motor by Aubrey Eneas of Boston, c1905 (c1910)

Solar motor by Aubrey Eneas of Boston, c1905 (c1910). Demonstrated at Edwin Cawstons ostrich farm Pasadena, California. A reflector 33 feet (10.05 metres)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Flight of locks on the Saima Canal, Finland, c1900

Flight of locks on the Saima Canal, Finland, c1900. A ship is descending the flight. On the left is a typical boatman. This canal, completed in 1856, linked Saima Lake to the Gulf of Finland

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Bird Catching from Above, Shetland Islands, 1813

Bird Catching from Above, Shetland Islands, 1813. Catchers were lowered down on a rope. Birds and eggs were a great economic resource for the Shetland Islanders

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Bird Catching from Below, Shetland Islands, 1813

Bird Catching from Below, Shetland Islands, 1813. Catchers were helped up the cliffs by colleagues in rowing boats. Birds and eggs were a great economic resource for the Shetland Islanders

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Bell telephone, 1882. Artist: Alexander Graham Bell

Bell telephone, 1882. Artist: Alexander Graham Bell
Bell telephone, 1882. Scottish-born American inventor Bell (1847-1922) filed the patent for his telephone at the United States Patent Office at 3pm on 14 February 1876

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Making Edison light bulbs, 1880

Making Edison light bulbs, 1880. Vacuum apparatus used to exhaust Edison incandescent light bulbs at G (centre top). From Scientific American. (New York, 1880)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Justus von Liebig, German chemist, at work in his laboratory, mid 19th century (c1885)

Justus von Liebig, German chemist, at work in his laboratory, mid 19th century (c1885). Liebig (1803-1873) was one of the most illustrious chemists of his age; he was the founder of agricultural

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551

Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian Munster. (Basel, 1551)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: The solar spectrum, 1814

The solar spectrum, 1814. Joseph von Fraunhofers (1787-1826) drawing of the lines of the solar spectrum, and above it a curve showing the intensity of sunlight in different parts of the spectrum

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Insects, 1911. Artist: L Patriarche

Insects, 1911. Artist: L Patriarche
Insects, 1911. Reverse of a plaquette commemorating French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915), who wrote numerous books on the anatomy and behaviour of insects

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Mining for rock salt, c1890

Mining for rock salt, c1890. Miners being lowered down a shaft on rope slings to begin their shift in the salt mine at Wieliczka, Galicia, Poland

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Jean Henri Fabre, French entomologist, 1911. Artist: L Patriarche

Jean Henri Fabre, French entomologist, 1911. Artist: L Patriarche
Jean Henri Fabre, French entomologist, 1911. Fabre (1823-1915) examining specimens through a magnifying glass. He wrote numerous books on the anatomy and behaviour of insects

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Producing salt by evaporating natural brine by pouring it into a pit of burning charcoal, 1556

Producing salt by evaporating natural brine by pouring it into a pit of burning charcoal, 1556. A rather impure product resulted. From De re metallica by Agricola (Georg Bauer). (Basel, 1556)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878 (1915)

Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878 (1915). In this model the cylinder on which the sound was recorded had to be rotated by hand. The instrument is shown in recording mode

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini

Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Murchison (1792-1871) investigated old rocks beneath the red sandstone

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Edgar Berillon, French psychologist, 1929

Edgar Berillon, French psychologist, 1929
Edgar Berillon (1854-1948), French psychologist, c1929. Reverse of a medal struck to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Berillons (1854-1948)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Plaquette commemorating the death of Henri Poincare, French mathematician, 1912

Plaquette commemorating the death of Henri Poincare, French mathematician, 1912
Plaquette commemorating the death of Henri Poincare, French mathematician and philosopher, 1912. Poincare (1854-1912) is best remembered for his work on topology and celestial mechanics

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Leonid meteor shower, 1870

Leonid meteor shower, 1870. The Leonids are visible in the night sky during November, and this observation was made by the French aeronauts Henri Giffard (1825-1882)

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Medal commemorating the discovery of penicillin, 1945

Medal commemorating the discovery of penicillin, 1945
Medal commemorating the discovery of penicillin. Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) discovered penicillin in 1928

Background imageImages Dated 4th August 2005: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, 1801

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, 1801. Among other achievements, Lavoisier (1743-1794) was one of the discoverers of oxygen, and established the laws of chemical combination



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