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Images Dated 5th August 2005: The Rein Deer, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

The Rein Deer, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Rein Deer, c1850. The Lapps (Samek or Samer), nomadic herdsmen of the Arctic from the Kola peninsula to northwest Sweden whose traditional way of life depended on their herds of semi-domesticated

Images Dated 5th August 2005: The Camel, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

The Camel, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Camel, c1850. The central image shows the Arabian Camel or Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) with a single hump, and the Asian or Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) with two humps

Images Dated 5th August 2005: The Hare and the Rabbit, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

The Hare and the Rabbit, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Hare and the Rabbit, c1850. The central image shows wild and domesticted rabbits. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left)

Images Dated 5th August 2005: The Sheep, c1850. Artist: Day & Haghe

The Sheep, c1850. Artist: Day & Haghe
The Sheep, c1850. The central image is of sheep of the Black Faced breed. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left)

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Fire in London, 1808. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson

Fire in London, 1808. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Fire in London, 1808. Albion Mills, on the south side of Blackfriars Bridge, London, burning, on 3 March 1791, after the mills were set alight by arsonists

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Making beaver hats, 1841

Making beaver hats, 1841. Although called beaver hats, a certain amount beaver fur was only used in the most expensive examples. In most others, rabbit fur was used

Images Dated 5th August 2005: The Postmans Knock c1855

The Postmans Knock c1855. A postman in General Post Office uniform knocking on a front door. From the cover of a song with music by Stephen Glover

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Paying for letter delivery, c1870 Artist: Oskar Pletsch

Paying for letter delivery, c1870 Artist: Oskar Pletsch
Paying for letter delivery, c1870. A postman waits while a young man delves in his pocket for money to pay for his letter

Images Dated 5th August 2005: There is the Postmans knock!, 1867

There is the Postmans knock!, 1867. A postman in Royal Mail uniform knocking at a front door. Illustration from a childrens book. (London, 1867)

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Shoemaker, c1845

Shoemaker, c1845. A shoemaker sits by his bench working on a boot or shoe, his tools on a tray beside him. On the bench stand the leather and the sole for a boot

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Making beaver hats, 1835

Making beaver hats, 1835. Although called beaver hats, a certain amount of beaver fur was only used in the most expensive examples. In most others, rabbit fur was used

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, German physicist, 1902

Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, German physicist, 1902. In 1895, while professor of physics at Wurzburg, (Rontgen (1845-1913) discovered X-rays, originally called Rontgen rays

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Finnish or Russian bath, 19th century

Finnish or Russian bath, 19th century. Men and women in a steam bath or sauna. On the left men are throwing water into a furnace to create steam while on the right a woman is having cold water poured

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Silk weaver, Bethnal Green, East London, 1893

Silk weaver, Bethnal Green, East London, 1893. A weaver at work on a hand loom in his cottage at Bethnal Green. His loom is set up by a wide window typical of weavers cottages in many English towns

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Hoxton Division, 1899. Artist: Stuff

Hoxton Division, 1899. Artist: Stuff
Hoxton Division, 1899. James Stuart (1843-1913) British mathematician and engineer, champion of university education for women

Images Dated 5th August 2005: The Railway Interest, 1875. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini

The Railway Interest, 1875. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
The Railway Interest, 1875. Edward William Watkin (1819-1901), English railway promoter and politician. Known as The Second Railway King

Images Dated 5th August 2005: The Bottom of the Shaft, 1862

The Bottom of the Shaft, 1862. Wagons of coal are being wheeled to the pit shaft, placed in a cage and hauled to the surface. From The Popular Encyclopaedia. (Glasgow and London, 1862)

$Syntax Star-gazing, c1815. Dr Syntax showing a young woman the stars with a small refracting telescope typical of this date, while a manservant trips over a dog and falls headlong down the stairs$

Syntax Star-gazing, c1815. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Syntax Star-gazing, c1815. Dr Syntax showing a young woman the stars with a small refracting telescope typical of this date, while a manservant trips over a dog and falls headlong down the stairs

Images Dated 5th August 2005: James Hutton, Scottish geologist, 18th century, (1875)

James Hutton, Scottish geologist, 18th century, (1875). Hutton (1726-1797) first published his Theory of the Earth in 1785, then an expanded version in 1795

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Crematorium, Pere la Chaise cemetery, Paris, 1888

Crematorium, Pere la Chaise cemetery, Paris, 1888. Illustration published in March 1888 while the building was under construction

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Madame Sophie Schliemann, 1877

Madame Sophie Schliemann, 1877. Madame Schliemann wearing jewellery excavated by her husband Heinrich at Troy (in modern Turkey) in 1876

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist, 1891

Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist, 1891. Schliemann (1822-1890) pioneered prehistoric Greek archaeology. He excavated the traditional site of Troy four times between 1871 and 1890

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Heinrich Schliemann lecturing in London, 1877

Heinrich Schliemann lecturing in London, 1877. German archaeologist Schliemann (1822-1890), lecturing on his excavations at Mycenae in Greece during 1876 to the Society of Antiquaries in their rooms

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Spitalfields silk weavers, 1893

Spitalfields silk weavers, 1893. Warners workshops, Spitalfields, East London. The weavers are working on hand looms and the weaving shed is lit by fishtail gas lights

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Coalman, 1826

Coalman, 1826. The Parisian coalman or Charbonier, with a full sack of coal on his back, wears a black shovel hat which covers the back of his neck

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill

Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Marconi Shares Scandal, 1913. In 1911 the British government decided to award a contract to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company to erect state-owned radio stations across the British Empire

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Interior of a Marconi radio transmitting station, 1915

Interior of a Marconi radio transmitting station, 1915. Cigarette card showing transmitting apparatus, published in London in 1915

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Advertisement for Kodak Brownie box cameras, 1900

Advertisement for Kodak Brownie box cameras, 1900. From 1888 the Kodak box camera took Eastmans coated paper roll film. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 4 August 1900)

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Chester Water Works, from the fields, 1852. Artist: John Romney

Chester Water Works, from the fields, 1852. Artist: John Romney
Chester Water Works, from the fields, 1852. Steam-powered pumping station for raising water from the river Dee for the towns water supply

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Female silk worker, Spitalfields, London, 1833

Female silk worker, Spitalfields, London, 1833. A woman is winding silk onto the warping frame. The Spitalfields silk industry was begun by Huguenot refugees who left France after the Revocation by

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Lavoisiers investigation of the existence of oxygen in the air, late 18th century, (1894)

Lavoisiers investigation of the existence of oxygen in the air, late 18th century, (1894). French chemist Antoine Lavoisiers (1743-1794) experiment to demonstrate the existence of oxygen

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Inside a Cheshire salt mine, 1889

Inside a Cheshire salt mine, 1889. Miners are gathering loose rock salt after blasting, and loading it into a horse-drawn tub for hoisting to the surface

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Descartes idea of the hydraulic action of the nerves, 1692

Descartes idea of the hydraulic action of the nerves, 1692. French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed nerves were hollow, provided with valves

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Napoleons troops defending a telegraph tower, c1815, (c1870)

Napoleons troops defending a telegraph tower, c1815, (c1870). The incident took place shortly before Napoleons defeat at Waterloo by the allies under Wellington, 18 June 1815

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Building a Chappe telegraph station, c1793, (c1870)

Building a Chappe telegraph station, c1793, (c1870). Claude Chappes (1763-1805) optical telegraph station used a system of rope

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Chappes aerial telegraph system, Algeria, mid-19th century, (c1870)

Chappes aerial telegraph system, Algeria, mid-19th century, (c1870). Claude Chappes (1763-1805) optical telegraph station used a system of rope

Images Dated 5th August 2005: First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, early 19th century, (c1870)

First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, early 19th century, (c1870)
First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, Russia, early 19th century, (c1870). Tsar Nicholas I (1796-1855), sending the first message from St Petersburg telegraph station

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Casellis pantelegraph of 1865, (c1870)

Casellis pantelegraph of 1865, (c1870). Invented by the Italian Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891), this precursor of the Fax machine was used on some French railway lines from 1865-1870

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, c1860s

Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, c1860s. Huxley (1825-1895) was known as Darwins bulldog because of his ardent support of Darwins theory of evolution

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 1897

Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 1897. Portrait published after his death of Huxley (1825-1895) who was known as Darwins bulldog because of his ardent support of Darwins theory of evolution

Images Dated 5th August 2005: River Landscape with Rustics and Horses, c1860. Artist: Edward Charles Williams

River Landscape with Rustics and Horses, c1860. Artist: Edward Charles Williams
River Landscape with Rustics and Horses, c1860. A moonlit rural scene by a river. A half-timbered cottage with a tiled roof stands near the water and mature woodland reaches down to the riverbank

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 1866

Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 1866. Huxley (1825-1895) was known as Darwins bulldog because of his ardent support of Darwins theory of evolution

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Rumfords calorimeter, 1887

Rumfords calorimeter, 1887. During his work in determining the efficiency of different fuels the Anglo-American scientist Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Using gunpowder in a stone quarry, 1867

Using gunpowder in a stone quarry, 1867. Quarry worker tamping down a gunpowder charge before setting and lighting a fuse to blast away a section of rock

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Butter seller, 1826

Butter seller, 1826. Market woman carrying her butter, with a white cloth to cover it, on a rush tray slung round her waist

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Mackerel seller, 1826

Mackerel seller, 1826. Market woman displaying the fish she has for sale, calling out that the good, fresh mackerel have arrived

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Prehistoric Peeps: A Night Lecture on Evolution, 1894. Artist: Edward Tennyson Reed

Prehistoric Peeps: A Night Lecture on Evolution, 1894. Artist: Edward Tennyson Reed
Prehistoric Peeps: A Night Lecture on Evolution, 1894. Satirical cartoon showing creatures halfway between men and monkeys listening to a lecture. The lectern is in the form of a pteradoctyl

Images Dated 5th August 2005: Lime Kilns. A View at Clifton near Bristol, Gloucestershire, 1798. Artist: John Hassell

Lime Kilns. A View at Clifton near Bristol, Gloucestershire, 1798. Artist: John Hassell
Lime Kilns. A View at Clifton near Bristol, Gloucestershire, 1798. The kilns were filled from the top with limestone and a fuel such as culm (coal or anthracite dust)

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