19th Century Scientific Discoveries

Engravings depict 19th-century figures in scientific settings, showcasing early experiments, bookbinding techniques, and innovations in physics and engineering.

Lyon Playfair, Scottish chemist and politician, 1882. Artist: Anon

Science in the Middle Ages by Anonymous painter, etching, 1751, Private Collection

Illustration depicting the study of John Tyndall (1820-1893) an Irish physicist. Dated 19th Century

Illustration depicting incubating room in an ostrich farm near Grahamstown, South Africa. Dated 19th Century

Newton investigating light, by John Adam Houston (1812-1884), illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume LVI, June 4, 1870. Digitally colorized image.

Michael Faraday. Line engraving by J. Cook after H. Anelay.

THE DR. SLADE PROSECUTION, SKETCH IN COURT DURING THE SECOND HEARING, RE-EXAMINATION OF PROFESSOR LANKESTER, ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Flowers, Fruits & Vegetables of the day / 31. / lettuce / m. Joints.

The astronomer, Abraham Delfos, After Johannes Vermeer, 1794 drawing paper. chalk. watercolor (paint) brush scholar in his study. astronomy (and cosmography) (+ scholar, scientist (at work)). star-globe

Diving pavilion at the Hygiene Exhibition in Berlin, man in diving suit, Germany, around 1885, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Claude Bernard, French physiologist, with a group of colleagues, discussing the anatomy of a rabbit

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (1861-1942), American mathematician and astronomer. Roberts at work on the Carte du Ciel at the Paris Observatory. She is using a plate-measuring microscope to measure positions of star images on photographic plates. She was the first woman to make astronomical observations from a balloon. From 'La Science Illustree'. (Paris, December 1903). Engraving.

A "man-midwife" (male obstetrician) represented by a figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1793.

Print, "The Microscope", Spooner's Transformations, No. 2; Published by William Spooner (England, active 1830 - 1854); England; lithograph, watercolor; (mount) 28.6 x 22.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 15/16 in.)

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Galileo demonstrating the new astronomical theories at the University of Padua. Engraving after a painting of 1873 by Mexican artist Félix Parra (1845-1919). The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustración Española y Americana), 1884.

Illustration showing Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), lecturing at the Royal Institution, London, on the distribution of gold ore: 1850.

SIR HUMPHRY DAVY experimenting at the Royal Institution, London, 1802

Mid-19th century Illustrations of Inventions and Discoveries. Top, left to right: The Compass, Gaslight, Electric telegraph. Middle: Steam engine, Printing, Lightning conductor. Bottom: Engraving, Gunpowder, Photography.

Cartoon commenting on evolution titled 'When Ignorance was Bliss!'. Dated 19th century

Portrait of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) a Flemish/Netherlandish anatomist, physician, and author of books on human anatomy. Dated 16th Century

Portrait of Arnold Marcel. The mathematical, physicist and creator of magnifying glasses Arnold Marcel. He is in his workshop surrounded with different mathematical instruments.

PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895) French chemist and bacteriologist. Study of microbes in the Pasteur Institute. Engraving.

Death in the Lab, Skeletons

Vigouroux device to combat mold. Old 19th century engraving from La Nature 1887

Lavoisier explains the result of his experiments with air to his woman, Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 1743) (8 May 1794) was a French chemist and natural scientist, lawyer, chief customs renter, economist and head of the French gunpowder administration, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original of the period

Heraclitus cries. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is in his office at a globe and cries.

William Harvey demonstrating to Charles the first his theory of the circulation of the blood in the 17th century

Engraving depicting an electric shock being sent through a circle of people. One person holds a charged Leyden jar by the outside coating and the person next to him touched the knob, sending a shock through the whole circle.

A chemist making confectionery in a laboratory; various bottles of acid in the background. Colour lithograph after Gris, 23 October 1909.

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Croatian inventor holding balls of flame in his bare hands

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Galileo demonstrating the new astronomical theories at the University of Padua. Engraving after a painting of 1873 by Mexican artist Felix Parra (1845-1919). The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.

A chemist examining a flask of golden liquid, with a book and chemical apparatus. Colour process print.

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a corpulent man eating at a dining table with a knife and fork. Death and the Glutton. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by Benedictus Antonio Van Assen from The British Dance of Death, Hodgson, London, 1823.

A long parasitical worm (tapeworm) is extracted from an emaciated man. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.

Serum culture, diphtheria vaccine, illustration from L'Illustration, No 2695, October 20, 1894.

John Dalton. Etching by J. Stephenson after himself.

Engraving depicting a concave mirror. The diagram showing the virtual focus when the light source is inside the principal focus. Dated 19th Century

Painter, artist, young Greek woman painting a vase, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

A stage in the separation of radium from pitchblende using sodium carbonate. Curies' laboratory, Paris c1900. Engraving

Alfred Baring Garrod discovers the role of uric acid in gout. Colour process print after D.T. de Losques, 1910.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842 - 1919), English physicist, working in his laboratory. He worked on the densities of gases leading to the discovery of element argon. Caption: 'Argon'. Date: 1899

A cartoon depicting Michael Faraday (1791-1867) British chemist and physicist, surrounded by women at The Royal Institution of Great Britain. Dated 19th century

'Measurement is Science', 1879, (c1915). Artist: Henry Stacy Marks.

Rock Salt: Refining salt, Northwich Cheshire, England. Brine heated with eggs and resulting scum containing impurities removed. From the Rev. Isaac Taylor 'Scenes of British Wealth', London, 1823. Hand-coloured engraving.

Anatomy lesson at the Sorbonne University in Paris (1826). Litography. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. MusŽe Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum).

The astronomer B ..... By observing the stars drops into a well / he fell from Carybde in Scylla. (IT)

Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897) American naturalist

Tom, the run-away chimney sweep's boy, who falls into the river and becomes a Water Baby, being examined by Richard Owen (left) and Thomas Henry Huxley. Owen was an opponent of Darwinism, Huxley, called 'Darwin's bulldog', its great champion. Illustration by Linley Sambourne for Charles Kingsley 'The Water Babies', ondon, 1885. The book was first published in 1863.

Illustration showing the perils of the celluloid collar, which was highly inflammable. Cartoon by Ernest H. Shepard from Punch,1911.

A cabin on board a packet-boat, its occupants either asleep or being sea-sick. Coloured aquatint, 1814.

A scientist studies microbes magnified on a screen. Date: 1899

The microphonograph of Francois Dussaud (1870-1953) is a Swiss physicist and inventor, known for his work in the field of sound recording. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1897

THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor with his Phonograph Date: 1847 - 1931

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Later, his five-volume work, Kosmos (1845), attempted to unify the various branches of scientific knowledge. Humboldt supported and worked with other scientists, including Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, Justus von Liebig, Louis Agassiz, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Georg von Neumayer, and most

Louis Pasteur (Dole, 1822-Villeneuve-l 'Etang, 1895) French chemist and bacteriologist. Discoverer of rabies vaccine. Outside the Paris laboratory with the sick together. Drawing from nature by Luis Jimenez. Colored engraving.

Der Astronom, mit einer Weltkugel des Sternenhimmel in seinem Arbeitszimmer, um 1800, Holland, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Brain stereotaxy - using apparatus to locate the target of a medical operation. Date: 1897

Progression of a man through the ages of fifty to a hundred. Engraving, c. 1794.

19th-century illustration showing a man offering Lamplough's Effervescing Pyretic Saline. A 'cure-all' patent medicine, Lamplough's Saline was made by Henry Lamplough, based in Holborn

Andreas Vesalius by Edouard Hamman (1819-1888)

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Lithograph by Desguerrois after C.C.A. Last after Rembrandt, 1632.

Alessandro Volta (1725-1827) Italian physicist, demonstrating his pile (battery) to Napleon. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 1901.

France: Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist, in his laboratory. Oil on canvas, Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905), 1885

Eclipse / seventh year / N ° 304 / Sunday 23 August 1874 / Natural History, by A. Humbert / The Porter.

An engraving depicting Professor Baden Powell lecturing on Falling Stars at an evening meeting of the British Association in the Radcliff Library, Oxford. Dated 19th century

Scientific experiments in the jungle in the early 20th century. Illustration by Lluis Bargall. Watercolour.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). American Inventor. 19th-century colored engraving.

The Spenser system, using gas from ordinary petrol, provides lighting, heating and cooking throughout the house, including irons, towel rail, hot water by day or night. Date: 1922

Spinning cotton. Print, London, 1821.

Group of scientists in white uniforms working in chemical laboratory. Group of scientists in white uniforms working in chemical laboratory. Research concept. Abstract picture Copyright: xZoonar.com/AleksandrsxTihonovsx 18973601

Idea for a video-phone using neon tubes to give the picture display. Illustration of a system proposed by Herbert Eugene Ives (1883-1952), American physicist and inventor, who worked at the Bell telephone laboratories on the transmission of mechanical video images. From 'Le Petit Inventeur'. (Paris, c1927).

Pathologists at work in a laboratory of a Paris hospital. From Le Journal de la Jeunesse, Paris, 1893.

Smith Brothers chemically pure borax. , Women, Laundry, Cleaning, Minerals, 19th Century American Trade Cards

William Bowman (1816- 1892) English anatomist, surgeon and ophthalmologist was born at Nantwich, Cheshire. After five years at Birmingham General Hospital, in 1837 he moved to Kings College Hospital, London. In the early 1840s he published papers on the structure and function of the kidneys. In 1846 he joined Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital, London, and became an authority on the eye and the leading ophthalmic surgeon. Fellow of the Royal Society, 1841. First president of the Ophthalmological Society, 1880. Created Baron, 1884. Cartoon in the Fancy Portraits series from 'Punch'. (London, 12 January 1884).

The murder of Helen Jewett in 1836 allegedly by Richard P. Robinson, leaving the brothel scene with a hatchet in hand, before he set it on fire. An illustration of the murder scene from a pamphlet.

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