Physics Collection (page 3)

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

Liebig Games - 6
A boy delights his friends with a demonstration of what happens when two shapes are projected and superimposed on a screen, a lesson in physics

Liebig Games - 5
A boy uses a paper screen to demonstrate the composition of light, achieving a prismatic effect as Isaac Newton did before him

Liebig Games - 4
Children play a game with paper figures under a sheet of glass, which when rubbed becomes magnetic and so the figures can be moved, an amusing lesson in physics

Liebig Games - 3
A boy entertains his friends with his skill with the hoop, demonstrating some of the laws of physics such as the power of centrifugal force

Liebig Games - 2
Three boys construct a tower with wooden bricks, learning some of the basic principles of physics - gravity, balance and the distribution of loads

Liebig Games - 1
Children make a fountain and in doing so learn some basic principles of physics, such as gravity, pressure and the flow of liquids

Daniel Bernouilli
DANIEL BERNOUILLI Swiss Professor of mathematics at St Petersburg and of anatomy, botany and physics and then of philosophy at the University of Basel

Science / Nollet
The electrical experiments of Jean-Antoine NOLLET, abbe and professor physics at Paris; demonstrating how electricity is conducted by the human body

Christian Huygens, Dutch scientist
Christian (or Christiaan) Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, horologist and astronomer, notable for his contributions to telescopes and to the nature of light

John Napier, Scottish mathematician
John Napier, 8th Laird of Merchiston, Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer, inventor of logarithms

Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist, researcher into electricity

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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