Date Gallery

Date palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera

Date palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, Dattier. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq's La Regne Vegetal: Planets Agricoles et Forestieres, L. Guerin, Paris, 1864-1871. Date palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, Dattier. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq's La Regne Vegetal: Planets Agricoles et Forestieres, L. Guerin, Paris, 1864-1871. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Utility pipes, artwork

Utility pipes. Cut-away computer artwork showing the various utility pipes and cables under a city street. Included here are pipes for drinking water, waste water, sewage and gas, and cables for electricity and data, including television and broadband internet

© JOSE ANTONIO PE'AS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

21st Century, Art Work, Building, Cable, Cables, City, Communications, Date, Electricity, Gas, Illustration, Internet, Pipe, Pipes, Service, Sewage, Sewer, Street, Technological, Technology, Telecommunications, Under Ground, Utilities, Utility, Vehicle, Water

Egyptian palm tree, 16th century artwork

Egyptian palm tree, 16th century artwork. The fruits of this palm tree are being harvested. The palm tree most commonly cultivated in this way is the date palm tree, which has sweet edible fruit. This is a woodcut from Cosmographie de Levant (1556), an account of travels in Asia, Greece, Palestine and Egypt by the French writer and explorer Andre Thevet (1502-1590)

© MIDDLE TEMPLE LIBRARY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY