Physics Collection (page 2)

Thermo-electric battery Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-189
Thermo-electric battery, invented in 1866 by French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891). Colored engraving

Catapult used by Roman army during its military campaigns. Colored engraving. 19th century

Paracelsus (1493-1541)
Paracelsus (Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) (1493-1541). Swiss physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. Engraving

Foucault Pendulum, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, USA
Foucault Pendulum, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California, USA, designed by Jean Foucault in 1851 to demonstrate the earths rotation. Date: 20th century

Philipp Lenard / Photo
PHILIPP EDUARD ANTON LENARD German physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905

Atmospheric Refraction
A diagram explaining atmospheric refraction using pictures of ships at sea to illustrate the concept

Antoine-Henri Becquerel
ANTOINE-HENRI BECQUEREL French physicist who won the Nobel prize for physics in 1903

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907) - a Scotch-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer. Date: circa 1905

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894). Engraving. Colored
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894). German physician and physicist. Engraving in Our Century, 1883. Colored

Michael Faraday (1791-1867). British physicist and chemist. Colored engraving

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894). Statue. Berlin. Germany
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894). German physician and physicist. Marble statue sculptured 1895 to 1896 by Ernst Herter. Cour d honneur of the Humboldt University Berlin. Germany

Humboldt University and statue of the German physicist Herma
Humboldt University. Founded in 1809 by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Facade and statue of the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894). Berli?n. Germany

Diego de Torres Villarroel (1693-1770). Scene of his Sue?o
Diego de Torres Villarroel (1693-1770). Spanish writer, poet, dramatist, doctor, mathematician, priest and professor of the University of Salamanca

Diego de Torres Villarroel (1693-1770). Spanish writer
Diego de Torres Villarroel (1693-1770). Writer, poet, playwright, physician, mathematician, priest and professor at the University of Salamanca. Colored engraving

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). Colored engraving
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. Colored engraving

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). Measuring the air pressure. Colo
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. Measuring the air pressure. Colored engraving

MARCONI, Guglielmo (1874-1937). Italian physicist. Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909. Engraving. Colored

Picture No. 11020551
Laplace, Pierre Simon de (1749-1827). French mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Colored engraving

Marcel Pages (1924-1974). French physicist. Portrait

Oersted, Hans Christian (1777-1851). Danish physicist
Oersted, Hans Christian (Copenhagen Rudkobing, 1777-1851). Danish physicist and chemist. Oersted discovers electromagnetism. Colored engraving

Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (1804-1891)
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (Wittenberg, 1804, Gottingen, 1891). German physicist. Nineteenth-century engraving

RUTHERFORD, Ernest (Nelson, New Zealand, 1871-Cambridge, 1937). English physicist. Study of radioactivity, isotopes and the structure of matter. Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1908

Albert Einstein, German-born physicist. 1920s

UCLA - University of California Los Angeles, USA
Biology and Physics Library (now Kinsey Hall), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Westwood, California, USA. Seen here while still under construction. circa 1929

Wolverhampton Orphanage - Physics Lesson
Wolverhampton Orphanage. A physics lesson about Ohms Law. Date: 1932

OPPENHEIMER, Julius Robert (1904-1967). American physicist

HEWISH, Anthony (1924). British radio astronomer. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974. Oil

MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879). Scottish theoretical physicist. Engraving

BECQUEREL, Antoine Henri (1852-1908). French physicist, Nobel laureate 1903, and the discoverer of radioactivity. Oil

FERMI, Enrico (1901-1954). Italian physicist, Nobel laureate in 1938. Oil

TORRICELLI, Evangelista (1608-1647). Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer. Opera Geom鴲 ica. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath
A rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath.There are four balloons (two at each end), a sail to propel it vehicle and a rudder to steer it. From: Collegium experimentale, sive, curiosum

The Right Reverend John Wilkins
Title page and frontispiece of The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins. The frontispiece is a portrait of Wilkins. Date: 1708

Jean-Baptiste Perrin
JEAN-BAPTISTE PERRIN French scientist, awarded Nobel prize for physics. Date: 1870 - 1942

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis comte de lEmpire (1736-1813). French mathematician and astronomer. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

CAUS, Salomon de (1576-1626). French architect and engineer. Les Raisons des Forces Mouvantes (1615). Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

BERNOUILLI, Daniel (1700-1782). Swiss mathematician and physicist. Litography

VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). Illustration from From
" VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). Illustration from " From the Earth to the Moon" (1865). Litography."

BOHR, Niels Henrik (1885-1962). German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932. Oil on canvas

Scouts learn about science
One American Boy Scouts demonstrates some equipment in a Scout-built project to show another group of Scouts the principles of static electricity

Dr Ernest Walton with Cockcroft-Walton apparatus
Dr Ernest Ts Walton in the cabinet (marked E) into which the high-velocity protons emerge and strike the target of lithium

Dr J D Cockcroft at work in Cavendish Laboratory
Dr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft

Science / Lab / Sorbonne
Physics Laboratory, Sorbonne, France

Sorbonne Physics Girls
Lectures in Physics for girls at the Sorbonne, Paris

Max Von Laue / Elderly
MAX VON LAUE German physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914

Einstein & Reporters
ALBERT EINSTEIN German born physicist. Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921. Photographed surrounded by reporters

Ecole Poly Paris 1894
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris: a physics lecture

B. Franklin / Lab / Figuier
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN American statesman, scientist and philosopher in his physics lab at Philadelphia

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