Discovery Collection (page 25)

Dante / Tomb / Ravenna / Ils
DANTE ALIGHIERI Italian poets remains discovered at Ravenna

Klondike / Hegg / 1900
The Discovery Claim at Anvil Creek, Nome, Alaska, during the gold rush

1688 / TSAR PETERs BOAT
The boat rebuilt by Peter I, which became known as the Grandfather of the Russian fleet. His discovery of this boat aroused his interest in ship design and seamanship

Dome of Discovery / 1951
Visitors to the Festival of Britain outside the Dome of Discovery

Map / Atlantic Ocean
Map of the Atlantic Ocean according to Toscanelli, before the discovery of America

Basrelief / Egypt / Chephren
An ancient Egyptian bas- relief, cut into the rock, near the Pyramid of Chephren. The bas-relief is on the same rock face and same line as the entrance to Santons cave

Treasure Island / Flint
Flints pointer

Daguerres Discovery
Daguerres discovery of an effective permanent photographic process, is announced by Arago to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Date: 10 August 1839

Father / Children / Nature
Father explains the wonders of nature to his three children

De Morgan Excav. / Egypt
De Morgan finds a royal chest at Dahrshar, near Saqquarah

Naddod Discovers Iceland
Viking explorer Naddod discovers Iceland

Dome of Discovery
The Dome of Discovery, one of the big attractions of the exhibition

Norman Heatley
NORMAN G HEATLEY English scientist who played a crucial role in the discovery of penicillin : at work in his Cambridge laboratory in the early 1940s

Kangaroo (Bewick)
This native of New Holland was a relatively new discovery when Bewick drew it, having been recently identified by Sir Joseph Banks

Police & Footprint
Investigating a robbery, a policeman finds a clue : a footprint in a flower-bed

Iron Age Warfare / Renegde
Iron age warfare when fire was a relatively new discovery

Discovering the Potato
Spanish conquistadors in South America are introduced to the potato by the inhabitants of Peru and Chile

Excavation Tomb / 1923
The excavation of Tutankhamens tomb

Egypt / Gournah Nr Thebes
GOURNAH, near Thebes : Discovery of a mummy during an excavation, in the presence of Edward, prince of Wales

Vasco da Gama meeting Christians at Sao Tome
Vasco da Gama meets Christians at Sao Tome, an island in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa

King of Congo, West Africa, receiving missionaries
The King of Congo, West Africa, receiving Dominican missionaries from Portugal

King of the Congo, West Africa, with Portuguese bishop
King Peter, Christian ruler of the Congo, West Africa, welcomes a Portuguese bishop

King of Guinea, West Africa, meets the Portuguese
Karamansa, King of Guinea, West Africa, meets the Portuguese and makes a treaty with them

Henry Hudson discovering the Hudson River

Columbus lands on Watling Island (San Salvador)
Columbus lands on Watling Island (now San Salvador), in the Bahamas

Michael Faraday, scientist, giving a lecture
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), scientist, lecturing at the Royal Institution, London, on his discoveries in magnetism and light

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