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Gibert and Sullivan theatre posterPoster for the Gilbert and Sullivan production Ruddigore. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan worked together to create fourteen operas between 1871 and 1896
Queen Victoria photographed with the BattenbergsQueen Victoria with the Battenbergs in 1889; Prince Henry of Battenberg holds his son Alexander ( Drino - later Marquess of Carisbrooke), while Princess Beatrice holds their only daughter
Manure Dryers / Collectors - Madras, IndiaIndian manure collectors and dryers. The manure was collected off the streets, worked into brickettes, dried in the sun and then sold for fuel in place of wood and coal to the local populace
Shirley Brooks (1816-1874)Engraved portrait of Shirley Brooks (1816-1874), the English journalist, pictured c.1874. Brooks worked for the Morning Chronicle, Punch and the Illustrated London News
Vigra Gold Mine, Wales, 1862Engraving showing the crushing mill of Vigra gold mine, beside the Hirgwm river in North Wales, 1862. The waterwheel shown was about 60ft in diameter
A Thermostatic NurseIllustrations of a Thermostatic Nurse, an invention by Mr Hearson. The tank was separated into two compartments; in the lower, a shallow tank of water was used to moisten and heat the air
Che Guevara / SundayERNESTO GUEVARA, KNOWN AS CHE GUEVARA. Latin American guerrilla leader & revolutionary theorist. Voluntary work (Sun)day; many Cubans worked to rebuild Cuba. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*
Women at work in a munitions factoryWomen working at a munitions factory during the First World War. During the war women workers were employed extensively throughout British industry and agriculture
Bude lightA large Bude light in Trafalgar Square. Invented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney and patented in 1839, the light worked by introducing oxygen gas into the middle of a standard oil lamp flame
Ayrton and Perrys new electric railwayProfessors Ayrton and Perrys new electric railway, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Electric Exhibition in 1882. Ayrton and Perry met at the Imperial College of Engineering and Japan
Edisons electric lampComponents of the electric lamp patented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in 1879. The lamp worked by passing an electric current through a carbon filament enclosed in a vacuum in a sealed glass bulb
The evolution of the type writerPhotograph of a type writer from 1830, worked by an unusual vertical ratchet arrangement
PhonographDiagram engraving showing components of a phonograph, along with a woman demonstrating how it is used. The phonograph worked by a small needle vibrating along a jagged groove
Marine telephoneA telephone or marine alarum being used by a sailor. This worked on the principle of sending air through a series of valves and pistons to make various notes
Joh. Nep. CzermakJOHANN NEPOMUK CZERMAK Czech physiologist from Prague, worked in Pesth where he invented the laryngoscope
Shipbuilding 1832A wooden ship is worked on, while in the distance crowds cheer a vast vessel with five huge flags as it takes to the sea
Illiterate Workers BillAn exact copy of a bill for 10s. 10d. sent by a bricklayer who could not write, to a gentlman for whom he had worked. The symbol for settled is very dramatic! Date: late 19th century
Musaeus CollectingThe German writer J K A Musaeus collects traditional stories from peasants, which he worked up as fairy-tales and published in 1782+
William Murdock / SmilesWILLIAM MURDOCK Scottish engineer and inventor who worked for Matthew Boulton and James Watts business
Sir a More / BoulonoisSIR ANTHONY MORE known as ANTONIO MORO originally ANTHONIS MOR Dutch painter who worked in England and Spain
ARTEMUS WARD 1834 - 1867ARTEMUS WARD (Charles Farrar Browne) American humorist. Worked for Vanity Fair, and toured in America and Britain
Hospital at ScutariThe hospital at Scutari and, conveniently close, the cemetery : it was here that Florence Nightingale worked
Gabriel LameGABRIEL LAME French mathematician and engineer, worked on first French railways
Nicola Di TolentinoSaint NICOLA DI TOLENTINO Augustinian friar, who led an uneventful life of patience and humility; he worked in the slums and performed many miracles
Franz X WinterhalterFRANZ XAVIER WINTERHALTER Distinguished German portrait painter who worked for Queen Victoria and Napoleon III among many others
Denis Diderot / MeissonierDENIS DIDEROT French encyclopedist and philosopher who worked as a teacher and a translator. Discussing the encyclopedia with colleagues
Pavel YablochkovPAVEL YABLOCHKOV Russian electric engineer, worked on telegraph system, developedthe first arc lamp, settled in Paris 1876
Diamond Pattern JumperA short sleeved jumper in a fancy stitch with a diamond pattern worked in 3 colours. It opens to the welt & fastens with 3 buttons
Jose De San MartinJOSE FRANCISCO DE SAN MARTIN Argentinian soldier and statesman who worked and fought for independence in Chile and Peru as well as his own country
Chandrasekhara RamanSir CHANDRASEKHARA VENKATA RAMAN Indian physicist, worked on the diffusion of light
Johann Elert Bode / FrickeJOHANN ELERT BODE German astronomer Worked on relative distances between planets and the sun
James FranckJAMES FRANCK - American-German physicist (worked on energy and US atom bomb in WW2)
