Science Collection (page 2)

Bracket Clock Tompion
Bracket clock by Thomas Tompion

Metric System
Applications of the metric system to dimensions, weight and money

Hms Beagle / Cape Horn
HMS Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin sailed, off Cape Horn

Hms Beagle / Darwins Ship
HMS Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin sailed, in the Straits of Magellan

Two skeletons, human and gorilla
A human skeleton compared with that of a gorilla

The new R. A. F. Centrifuge 1955
Testing the effects of gravitational stresses experienced by pilots at high speeds: the new R.A.F. centrifuge at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough, Hampshire

Lovell Telescope
The brainchild of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Lovell Radio Telescope was for many years the largest in the world and dominates the Cheshire countryside for miles around. Date: 1960s

Filming Thunderbirds
Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films

Clock Mechanism, 1737
A diagram of the inner workings of a clock

Fleming / Photo / Microscope
SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING - Scottish bacteriologist at his desk with his microscope

A Watchmaker at Work
A clock and watchmaker seated at his bench makes fine adjustments to a watch part, possibly a cog. He uses a bow lathe ?. Wall, mantel & grandfather clocks can be seen

Computer Envisaged 1927
A COMPUTER, as envisaged in 1927 [illustration to The Thought Machine by Ammianus Marcellinus]

Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and occultist

Futuristic long distance airship
A futuristic long distance airship held aloft by two long balloons, flying across the sea

Lie detector 1923
American instrument for the detection of uttered fibs, falsehoods, and other untruths, based on responses of the subjects heart and lungs

Frontispiece illustration from Frankenstein
Frontispiece illustration from Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Date: first published 1818

Great bustard, Otis tarda (vulnerable), and common ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

German inventions for war in the air by G. H. Davis
The ingenuity of German scientists applied to the war in the air. Illustrating the methods and machines exploited and used by the Germans during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Celestial map by Johannes Van Keulen (1654-1715). SPAIN. Barcelona. Barcelona Maritime Museum

Automaton at the Schoolboys Own Exhibition, 1929
A physiological robot at the Schoolboys Own Exhibition in London, 1929. Designed to show how organs of the body work, here three young visitors take great interest in its insides. Date: 1929

Filming Thunderbirds
Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films

Astronomical Clock 1833
The astronomical clock in Strasbourg cathedral was first built in 1354 and rebuilt in 1574

Geologists Equipment
A geologists equipment includes hammers, a sieve, tweezers and a strong satchel

Mary Baker Eddy / Boston
MARY BAKER EDDY Founder of Christian Science: a picture of her from her early days at Boston

Electricity / Voltaic Pile
VOLTAIC PILE The first workable device for generating a consistent flow of electricity, invented in 1799 by Alessandro Volta

Chinese Abacus 1814
A man uses a " swan-pen" - a Chinese version of the abacus

M. I. T. Calculator 1930S
The Differential Analyser calculating machine designed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Under the Microscope / C18
Animacules : microscopic creatures as seen under a microscope; the last two rows are human sperm

National Electric Grid
Part of Britains National Grid, this is the sub-station at Yoker, near Glasgow, Scotland. The tower is 90 metres tall and carries the lines across the Clyde

Ideal Scientist
The ideal scientist - interested in the old as well as the new, anatomy as well as astronomy, the laws of chance and of mathematics, the skill of chess, the hues of a rose

Optique Telescope / Didero
An optique telescope

Edinburgh Uni Studying
Students at Edinburgh University, apparently studying science, read and make notes in a library

Computer 1960S
A compact modern computer with built in screen

Natural Bridge Virginia
A river flows beneath a massive natural bridge in Virginia, USA

Hms Beagle / Darwins Ship
HMS Beagle among porpoises Charles Darwins research ship

Armillary Sphere
An armillary sphere

Schiaparellis two hemispheres of the planet Mars
The two hemispheres of the planet Mars as drawn by the Italian astronomer and historian of science, Giovanni Schiaparelli

Tycho Brahe Astrolabe
Tycho-Brahes astrolabe

Filming Thunderbirds
Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films

Atomic Motorbike
Motor Cycle Driven by Atomic Power

The astronomers waiting for the eclipse
The eclipse expedition in India to observe the total eclipse of the sun. Mr. Norman Lockyer is shown seated a little to the left beneath the umbrella

Clock Mechanism 1882
A clock mechanism

Lubbock / John / Graphic 84
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 1st BARON AVEBURY Liberal MP and writer of popular science books

Atomic Power Predicted
Atomic power plants predicted

Peruvian Quipu
A quipu of ancient Peru

Bernouilli Brothers
Brothers Jakob I and Johann I Bernoulli working on a problem of geometry

Death of Elder Pliny
GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS In his eagerness to observe the eruption of Vesuvius, he approaches dangerously near and is killed by falling rocks, a martyr to science

Foucault Demo, 1851
Leon Foucault uses his pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, at the Pantheon, Paris, 1851

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