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August Kekule, German chemist
August Kekule (1829-1896), German organic chemist. From 1858 Kekule developed a structural theory for carbon chemistry, based on its valency (bond-forming) of four

Mechanical buoy, 19th century

Redwood tree house, 19th century
Redwood tree house, 19th-century artwork. This is the General Noble Redwood Tree House, on the National Mall, in Washington DC, USA

Tram electrical systems, 19th century
Tram electrical systems, 19th-century artwork. Electrification of trams (also called streetcars) took place in the 1880s and 1890s

Trained dogs, 19th century
Trained dogs, 19th-century artwork. Woman instructing a trained dog to perform a leap. This is a Scottish deerhound, leaping to a height of 1.8 metres over a smaller dog on a pile of stools

Face mask production, 19th century
Face mask production, 19th-century artwork. During the 19th century, face masks of famous people, or fancy dress masks for use at masked balls, were popular

Dwarfism, 19th century
Dwarfism, 19th-century artwork. Burmese dwarfs Smaun (left) and Fatma (right) standing next to a champagne bottle. These two dwarfs, brother (Smaun) and sister (Fatma), had the surname Sing Hpoo

Mortise and tenon joint, 19th century
Mortise and tenon joint, 19th-century artwork. This is a particular type of mortise and tenon joint, known as a dovetail joint

Posture in children, 19th century
Posture in children, 19th-century photograph. Lines have been drawn on the photograph showing the position of the backbone and shoulder blades

Magic trick, 19th century artwork. Shown here is the double cage magic trick, where the magician makes one or both of his assistants (in the cages) disappear or swap places

School for the blind, 19th century
School for the blind, 19th-century artwork. Blind women making boots at an institution for the teaching and training of the blind

Induction launcher, early 20th century
Induction launcher, early 20th-century artwork. Metal rings are being launched upwards from an electromagnetic coil using a high-voltage alternating current

Ancient Egyptian artefact, 19th century artwork. This artefact, found in Egypt in the 1890s, is a fragment of an Ancient Egyptian object called a pschent

Austrian military cyclists, 19th century
Austrian military cyclists, 19th-century artwork. It was not until the late 1880s and early 1890s that bicycles had improved to the point where they could be used by the military

Strongwoman, 19th century
Strongwoman, 19th-century artwork. Strongwoman Mary Arniotis lifting five men in a performance in Berlin, Germany. Arniotis performed feats of strength while touring Europe and the USA in the 1890s

Science fiction story, 19th century
Science fiction story, 19th-century artwork. This artwork accompanied the republication in serial form of part of an early French science fiction story Ignis (1883)

Giant anteater and cub, 19th century

Waste incinerator, 19th century
Waste incinerator, 19th-century artwork. This incinerator is located in New York City, USA. The first waste incinerators dates from the 1870s in the UK

Cornish tin mine workers, 19th century

Pedal-powered vessel, 19th century
Pedal-powered vessel, 19th-century artwork. This vessel has two helical screws either side, powered by pedals operated by four cyclists, with a fifth seat at the front for the pilot

Root vegetable washer, 19th century artwork. This invention was designed by a Mr Defosse-Delambre, from Varennes, in the Somme region of France

Chain mortiser saw, 19th century
Chain mortiser saw, 19th-century artwork. This type of saw is designed to cut square holes in wood, here in a plank being held in place by a clamp

Orangutan, 19th century
Orangutan, 19th-century artwork. The orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) consists of two species of great ape found in Borneo and Sumatra

Pavel Yablochkov, Russian engineer
Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov (1847-1894), Russian engineer and inventor. Yablochkov developed his inventions in a workshop in Moscow, Russia

Optical illusion, 19th century
Optical illusion, 19th-century artwork. Array of white circles on a black background, the starting point for a demonstration of an optical illusion

Toucans eating fruit, 19th century
Toucans eating fruit, 19th-century artwork. These are toco toucans (Ramphastos toco), native to semi-open woodlands in central and eastern South America

Dessicating machine, 19th century
Dessicating machine, 19th-century artwork. This machine was developed to dry fruit for export to the USA from the France. It has two parts, a furnace and a drying chamber

Camille Flammarion, French astronomer
Camille Flammarion (1842-1925), French astronomer and author, at home in his study. In 1882, after working for the Paris Observatory, Flammarion founded L Astronomie

Nansens Fram expedition, 19th century
Fram expedition to the Arctic, commanded by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). Nansen and his crew sailed in the Fram (top left)

Early refrigerator, 19th century

Gunboat on Nile rapids, 19th century
Gunboat on Nile rapids, 19th-century artwork. This is a British gunboat being handled by ropes as it negotiates rapids or cataracts on the Nile

Toy manufacturing, 19th century
Toy manufacturing, 19th-century artwork. Family working together at home to make wooden toys. This is an example of small-scale crafts production (cottage industries)

Hydroelectric turbine, 19th century
Hydroelectric turbine, 19th-century artwork. This turbine is part of the hydroelectric power station built from 1895 on the US side of Niagara Falls

Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian explorer
Adrien de Gerlache (1866-1934), Belgian explorer. De Gerlache commanded the Belgian Antarctic Expedition which took place from 1897 to 1899. The expedition ship was the Belgica

Locusts destroying crops. Historical artwork showing the various stages during a locust plague and the effects on crops. At top right is a locust egg

Diamond-tipped drill, 19th century
Diamond-tipped drill in operation, historical artwork. Although the hardness of diamond had been known for centuries, the first industrial use of diamond-tipped drills for mining was in the mid-19th

Whale hunting, Norway, 19th century
Whale harpooning, Norway, 19th century artwork. The whale (right) has surfaced and is exhaling (spout) through its blow-hole. This whale hunt is taking place in the Arctic Ocean, north of Norway

Meteoric impact, 17th century. This fall of a meteor to Earth was observed in Styria, Austria, an event that is recorded as having taken place in August 1618

Edison talking into his phonograph, historical artwork. US inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific inventor, filing some 1300 patents

Philippe de Girard, French inventor

Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist
Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836), French physicist and pioneer of electrodynamics. Ampere also worked as a mathematician and chemist. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1814

Naval observation balloon, 19th century artwork. The balloon (upper right) is tethered to the ship below, and is being used to survey the movement of enemy ships and forces

Tropical plants and reptiles. Historical artwork of reptiles and tropical plants on the banks of the Orinoco River. This is a major river in northern South America

Solar spectroscopy, 19th century
Solar spectroscopy. Artwork of solar eruptions combined with spectroscopic observations of the Sun. The depictions of the solar eruptions (prominences) and a planet (left, included for scale)

Eiffel Tower, 1889 Universal Exposition
Eiffel Tower. View of the Eiffel Tower and the Champ de Mars at the time of the Universal Exposition of 1889, as seen from the hill of the Trocadero on the other side of the River Seine

Phases of Venus, 19th-century diagram

Hedleys Puffing Billy, 1813
Hedleys Puffing Billy. This early steam locomotive was built in the period 1813-1814 by the British engineer William Hedley (1779-1843)

Dangers of steam carriages, 19th century
Dangers of steam carriages. 19th-century caricature lampooning the dangers of the steam carriages being developed at this time. A steam carriage at right has exploded

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