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Images Dated 5th August 2005 (page 6)

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Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Robert Boyle, 17th century Irish chemist and physicist, 1739. Artist: George Vertue

Robert Boyle, 17th century Irish chemist and physicist, 1739. Artist: George Vertue
Robert Boyle, 17th century Irish chemist and physicist, 1739. After attending school at Eton, Boyle (1627-1691), the seventh son of the 1st Earl of Cork, spent six years in Europe

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Blast furnaces, South Wales, 1885

Blast furnaces, South Wales, 1885. The pollution being generated during the production of iron and steel at Siemens Iron and Steel Works, Landore

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Industrial laboratory at Thomas Firth & Sons Norfolk Works, Sheffield, c1900

Industrial laboratory at Thomas Firth & Sons Norfolk Works, Sheffield, c1900. Thomas Firth & Sons Ltd was founded c1840 by Mark Firth

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Interior, Thomas Firth & Sons Norfolk Works, Sheffield, c1890

Interior, Thomas Firth & Sons Norfolk Works, Sheffield, c1890. Twelve men, each with a work station facing a window, hand-cutting files from blanks of crucible steel

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Needle making workshop, 1751-1780

Needle making workshop, 1751-1780. Cutting needle lengths from steel wire (1), flattening the end (4), stamping the eye (2), punching the eye (3), filing the eye and pointing the end (7)

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Map of stellar constellations, 1775

Map of stellar constellations, 1775. Constellations of Perseus carrying the head of Medusa, Andromeda chained to a rock, and the Triangle (Triangulum)

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Indian sailing ships described by Marco Polo, 15th century

Indian sailing ships described by Marco Polo, 15th century. The ships are cogs, the general European trading vessels of the time

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Scene from Marco Polos Book of Marvels... early 15th century. Artist: Master of Boucicaut

Scene from Marco Polos Book of Marvels... early 15th century. Artist: Master of Boucicaut
Scene from Marco Polos Book of Marvels... early 15th century, showing merchants entering a walled town, mason and carpenter at work, a shopkeeper serving a customer, and men driving swine

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Theresa, Marchioness of Londonderry, 1896. Artist: Hal Hurst

Theresa, Marchioness of Londonderry, 1896. Artist: Hal Hurst
Theresa, Marchioness of Londonderry, 1896. Theresa Susey Helen, Marchioness of Londonderry, nee Chetwynd-Talbot (1856-1919), English political hostess, in white with parasol

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Robert Stawell Ball, British astronomer, mathematician, lecturer and populariser of science, 1905

Robert Stawell Ball, British astronomer, mathematician, lecturer and populariser of science, 1905. Artist: Spy
Robert Stawell Ball, Irish-born British astronomer, mathematician, lecturer and populariser of science, 1905. Ball (1840-1913), Lord Rosses astronomer at Parsonstown, Ireland

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Boyers photographic studio, 1899

Boyers photographic studio, 1899. Family posing within a wooden framework with gauze-like material stretched over it. This produced an evenly diffused light when the magnesium flash on the top right

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Portrait photographers studio, c1880

Portrait photographers studio, c1880. The photographer, with his head under a black cloth, is focusing on his sitter. He is using a plate camera on a tripod

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Photographers studio, c1895

Photographers studio, c1895. The photogapher is focusing on his sitters. Above is a bank of arc lights. The use of bright artificial light meant that exposure times could be reduced to a few seconds

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Portrait photography as a fitting career for a young woman, 1884

Portrait photography as a fitting career for a young woman, 1884. A female photographer uses a plate camera on a tripod to take a childs portrait in her studio

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Ferdinand Fouque, French geologist and petrologist, 1904

Ferdinand Fouque, French geologist and petrologist, 1904. Fouque (1828-1904) worked on the Geological Survey of France. He made a particular study of volcanoes and earthquakes

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Standard Metre in the Petit Luxembourg, Paris, 1904

Standard Metre in the Petit Luxembourg, Paris, 1904. Set up when metrification was introduced by the French National Assembly between 1791 and 1795

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Hypnosis subject suffering from imaginary toothache, 1891

Hypnosis subject suffering from imaginary toothache, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Subject going into a hypnotic trance, 1891

Subject going into a hypnotic trance, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893)

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Subjects hypnotised by the sound of a gong, 1891

Subjects hypnotised by the sound of a gong, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Hypnotised subject in a state of catalepsy, 1891

Hypnotised subject in a state of catalepsy, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Tapping a blast furnace and casting iron into pigs, c1900

Tapping a blast furnace and casting iron into pigs, c1900. From The Marvels of Metals by FM Holmes. (London, c1900)

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Wilsons cloud chamber, c1927. Artist: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Wilsons cloud chamber, c1927. Artist: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Wilsons cloud chamber, c1927. Charles Thompson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), Scottish nuclear and atomic physicist, was award the 1927 Nobel prize for Physics for the invention of his cloud chamber

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Steam engine by James Watt, 1915

Steam engine by James Watt, 1915. Watt (1736-1819), Scottish engineer and inventor, greatly improved the efficiency of the steam engine by inventing the separate condenser

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist, 1897

Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist, 1897. Born in Derby, Spencer (1820-1903) put forward the idea and coined the term survival of the fittest and was an advocate of social Darwinism

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: John Stevens Henslow, English botanist, geologist and clergyman, 1861

John Stevens Henslow, English botanist, geologist and clergyman, 1861. Henslow (1796-1861) was professor of mineralogy (1822-1827) and of botany (1827-1861) at Cambridge

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Europeans in a smallpox quarantine camp at El Tor, North Africa, 1884

Europeans in a smallpox quarantine camp at El Tor, North Africa, 1884. Passengers from the SS Mira at a camp on the Arabian Coast

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Three generations of women, 1814

Three generations of women, 1814. A cottager is spinning wool, using a simple wheel without treadle, while her mother reels yarn. Her daughter stirs a cast iron pot standing on an open fire

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Nant-y-Glow Iron Works, Monmouthshire, Wales, c1780, (c1830)

Nant-y-Glow Iron Works, Monmouthshire, Wales, c1780, (c1830). This shows the works by moonlight. The buildings on the left are probably puddling furnaces, those on the right blast furnaces

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Hypnotised subjects attracted by a matchbox, 1891

Hypnotised subjects attracted by a matchbox, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley giving a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Gentlemans model country estate, c1750

Gentlemans model country estate, c1750. The property of David Wells at Burbage (Burbach), Leicestershire, England, showing the house

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Gideon Algernon Mantell, English geologist, 1852

Gideon Algernon Mantell, English geologist, 1852. In 1820 Mantell (1790-1852) discovered fossil parts of the Iguanodon and deduced from its teeth that it was a herbivore

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1882

Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1882. Playfair (1818-1898) on the first day of the new session in the Commons

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: James Jeans, English mathematician and physicist

James Jeans, English mathematician and physicist. Jeans (1877-1946) held the chair of applied mathematics at Princeton University (1905-1909), lectured at both Oxford and Cambridge

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1890-1894. Artist: W&D Downey

Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1890-1894. Artist: W&D Downey
Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1890-1894. Playfair (1818-1898) studied chemistry at Glasgow under Thomas Graham, and under Liebig at Giessen

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Charles Plumier, French friar, botanist and botanical explorer, 1762

Charles Plumier, French friar, botanist and botanical explorer, 1762. Plumier (1646-1702) was born in Marseilles. Appointed royal botanist by Louis XIV in 1693

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1877. Artist: Lock & Whitfield

Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1877. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1877. Playfair (1818-1898) studied chemistry at Glasgow under Thomas Graham, and under Liebig at Giessen

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor, 1881. Artist: Lock & Whitfield

Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor, 1881. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor, 1881. Born at Charlton, near Hitchen, Hertfordshire, Bessemer (1813-1893) took out many patents but is best remembered for his invention of the Bessemer

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Johann Freidrich Bottger, German chemist and ceramicist, c1895

Johann Freidrich Bottger, German chemist and ceramicist, c1895. Bottger (Botticher, 1682-1719) was the originator of Dresden china

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: The Hermetic Vessel, c1760

The Hermetic Vessel, c1760. A hermetic vessel in the alchemical furnace. The serpent within the vase symbolises the earthy substances of which the Philosophers Stone is made

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Jacquard power loom, 1915

Jacquard power loom, 1915. In 1801 the Frenchman Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) invented a method of weaving intricate patterns by encoding them on punched cards

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Observing a total solar eclipse, 1851 (1857)

Observing a total solar eclipse, 1851 (1857). Members of the Edinburgh expedition on Bue Island, Norway, with their instruments set up ready for viewing the eclipse which occurred on 28 July 1851

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Thunderbolt or lightning, 1508

Thunderbolt or lightning, 1508. A man sheltering under a tree struck by lightning or a thunderbolt. From Margarita philosophica (The Pearl of Philosophy) by Gregor Reisch. (Basel, 1508)

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Solar corona and prominences 1860 (1870)

Solar corona and prominences 1860 (1870)
Solar corona and prominences 1870. Observations made by the English astronomer Warren de la Rue (1815-1889) at Rivabellosa in Spain during a total solar eclipse, 18 July 1860

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Part of the lunar surface, 1857

Part of the lunar surface, 1857. The surface of the Moon in the region of Mare Crisium at Old Moon. From Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. (Edinburgh, 1857)

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Coal delivery, 1860

Coal delivery, 1860. A footman collecting a scuttle of coal from the cellar under the pavement at the very moment when the coalman shoots a sack of coal from Newcastle through the manhole in

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Au Clair de la Lune : the power of hypnosis, 1894. Artist: George du Maurier

Au Clair de la Lune : the power of hypnosis, 1894. Artist: George du Maurier
Au Clair de la Lune : the power of hypnosis, 1894. Trilby the tone-deaf! Who couldn t tell a C from an F!! giving a concert under Svengalis hypnotic influence. From Trilby by George du Maurier

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Mesmers tub, c1870

Mesmers tub, c1870. In 1779, soon after the publication of his treatise Memoire sur la decouverte de magnetism animal, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), the founder of Mesmerism

Background imageImages Dated 5th August 2005: Caricature of Franz Anton Mesmer, c1785

Caricature of Franz Anton Mesmer, c1785. He is depicted as an ass hypnotising a female subject with a finger. In 1779, soon after the publication of his treatise Memoire sur la decouverte de



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