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The Harley-Scope Mine-Detector by William Heath RobinsonA crackpot invention dreamed up Heath Robinson, allowing a British machine to suspend a stethoscope wearing doctor over the ground, in an attempt to locate the snug dug outs of the German enemy
Nelson turns a blind eye - Battle of CopenhagenAdmiral Lord Nelson ignoring the signal from Sir Hyde Parker to stop fighting. He is looking though his telescope with his blind eye (popularising the phrase to turn a blind eye )
The Royal Observatory Greenwich, London - The Great Equatorial Telescope. Date: late 1930s
RMS Titanic - Raise the Titanic film Date: 1980
Mustard loaded aboard a Royal Navy ship - 18th centuryMustard for the Royal Navy being loaded aboard a ship setting out to broaden the scope of the British Empire during the reign of King George II in the mid 18th century. Date: circa 1750
Telescope Man - WestminsterA wonderful photographic postcard depicting Big Bens Telescope Man under the Boadicea Statue, Westminster. The statue was sculpted by Lord Thomas Thorneycroft (1815 - 1865)
Egyptian WritingEgyptian hieroglyphs developed the scope of visual symbols to an extraordinary degree, graphic as well as decorative
Louse Thru Hooke M / ScopeA flea and louse observed with Hookes microscope