Historic Scientific Discoveries

Engravings depicting historical scientific experiments and inventions including steam engines and artificial respiration in various settings.

Hawkins invities scientists to dine inside his iguanodon model at the Crystal Palace exhibition at Sydenham. Date: 1854

The experiment in full operation. Political cartoon satirising President Jacksons federal treasury policy and Vice-President Van Burens influence on the fiscal program of the administration. The cartoon takes a very anti-Jackson standpoint and imagines him as slave master of a ship that is destined to sink. Lithograph print on wove paper. Circa 1833.

Mailly perfumery store, Rue d'Enghien, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 713, Volume XXVII, October 25, 1856.

Witkowski "Histoire des accouchements...", 1889: figure

William Henry Flower (1831-1899) English surgeon and zoologist, born at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England. On the death of Richard Owen he was appointed Director of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, London (1884-1898). Flower with assistants studying specimens in his study at the museum. Engraving from 'The English Illustrated Magazine' (London, 1888).

Chinese gold prospector, United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 538, Volume XXI, June 18, 1853.

Scientific use of the magic lantern at an entomological conference, Paris. Date: 1880

An engraving depicting a British Association Meeting of 1849, in the Geological section of Birmingham Grammar School. Dated 19th century

Auguste Piccard, Swiss scientist, with colleague Kupfer, reaches record altitude of 16,201m, ascending from Augsburg and coming down in the Austrian Alps. Date: 27 May 1931

Nineteenth Century Inventions.

Illustration depicting an invention by Claude Chappe (1763-1805) a French inventor. Dated 18th Century

History of navigation. Iconographic Encyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art, 19th c. Engraving, Color.

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Photograph after Rembrandt, 1632.

Illustration showing the wardroom of the Polar Research Ship 'Discovery', Easter Sunday, 1902. Several of the ship's officers can be seen climbing onto the dining table to look at their pots of crocuses. Date: 1903

Policemen entering the study of a medical student in search of thieves shoot at a pair of skeletons by mistake Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1844.

Encyclopedie. Edited by Denis Diderto and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. Published, 1770. Engraving. Blowing Globets. Later colouration.

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

science academies Academie francaise French academy of science and art session 1769 engraving after drawing by Giradet,

Berget carries out experiments with Foucault's Pendulum at the Pantheon, Paris Date: October 1902

workers coining money in 1510 Copyright: xKenxGraham/DinodiaxPhotox

Last session of the Scientific Medical Conference in the Redoute Hall, Vienna, Austria, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 710, Volume XXVII, October 4, 1856.

The Museum of Practical Geology, Piccadilly: the interior. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1848, after B. Sly.

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist, in his laboratory with Denis Papin (1647-1712) French physicist. Papin is pointing to Boyle's air pump. Probably illustrates discussion between Boyle and Papin on use of atmospheric pressure to raise water. Wood engraving Paris 1870.

The wings of the Marquis de Bacqueville, Flight test by Jean-Francois Boyvin Bonnetot on March 19, 1742 in Paris. France, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1893

Engraving depicting the Roman goddess Ceres, teaching Mankind the art of Husbandry.

British Association for the Advancement of Science: the president-elect and presidents of departments. Wood engraving, 1883.

The chemical laboratory of the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 1880, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Germain Colot performing an operation for bladder stone. Lithograph by A. Rivoulon, 1851.

Cartoon depicting some of the most famous philosophers gathered together in formal attire. Dated 19th Century

Throwing the Bolas Engraving from Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin published by Nelson & Sons 1890, Throwing the Bolas Engraving from Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin published by Nelson & Sons 1890, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Snow melting systems. Steam distribution pipes for snow melting in New York, project by Locke, 1887. USA. Old illustration from La Nature 1887

Portable lightning conductor invented by Jacques Barbeur Dubourg (1709-1779). Barbeu-Dubourg was a friend of Franklin's.

THE COMET OF COGGIA observed from the Pont-Neuf, Paris, France Date: 1874

Chemical Laboratory of the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 1880, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century document, Europe

'Plague of London, 1665: Street scene with bodies lying ready for collection while a full death cart is being driven to the plague pits. Engraving c1830.'

Bell and Tainter's photophone. Date: late 19th century

'The British Tar of The Future', 1862. Artist: Unknown

The Mammalian Saloon : the natural history department will not be moved to South Kensington until 1881. Date: 1875

A cartoon depicting a navvy and an amateur palaeontologist not on the same wavelength. Dated 19th century

John Dalton and Gerrit Moll, ca. 1831-32, Pieter Wilhelmus van de Weijer, 1831 - 1832 print Cartoon in which the English scientist John Dalton (left) thanks Dutch astronomer Gerrit Moll (right) and shakes his hand, at the Royal Institution in London. Utrecht paper shaking hands, 'dextrarum junctio'. political caricatures and satires London

Throwing the Bolas Engraving from Journal of Researches by Charles Darwin published by Nelson & Sons 1890

An engraving depicting Paul Bert determining the biting power of a crocodile - Shamone. The animals lower jaw was fixed and a rope tied the upper one to a dynamometer. An electric shock was administered making the reptile snap and strain on the rope. Paul Bert (1833-1886) a French zoologist, physiologist and politician. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting J. S. Thurman's method of cleaning heads. Dated 20th century

An engraving depicting a rechargeable 'Sparklet' soda syphon. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author. After a picture by Edouard Hamman (1819-1888) a Belgian painter and engraver. Dated 19th century

Eskimo Disco Island, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) English astronomer and spectroscopist born at Rugby, Warwickshire. In 1868 he detected and named the gaseous element Helium in the Sun's chromosphere. In 1869 he established the science journal 'Nature' which he edited until shortly before his death. Cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne in the Punch's Fancy Portraits series from 'Punch' (London, 22 December 1883).

Darwinism: everyday proof of man's origins. Cartoon from Punch (London, 1861)., Wood engraving

P. Cacchiatelli - G. Gleter, Le Scienza e le Arti sotto il pontificato di Pio IX, edito a Roma nel 1860 dalla Tipografia delle Belle Arti, via Poli, 91. Internamente sono contenute delle acqueforti che raffigurano le opere pubbliche realizzate durante il Pontificato di Pio IX

The Walcheren inquiry into the misconduct of the Army Medical Board of three, resulting in its abolition. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson. 1810.

The osteological room in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Date: 1887

An engraving depicting a 'bending trunk' position backwards in the riding position. Dated 20th century

Cyrus McCormick's reaping machine of 1831 (patented 1834). Exhibited at Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851. First widely adopted reaping machine. Hand-coloured engraving.

Louis Pasteur inoculating sheep against anthrax.

Andreas Vesalius. Lithograph by E. Milster after E. J. C. Hamman, 1849.

'Evidence Olfactory', 1879. Artist: Charles Samuel Keene

Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) British physicist. His work make the electric telegraph practicable. Engraving, 1882.

Caricature of the cold water cure.

American scientists and inventors - digital file from original item | Library of Congress

CLAUDE BERNARD (1813-1878) PHYSIOLOGIST WHO DISCOVERED THE CHEMICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE LIVER AND THE FUNCTIONING OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM - 1889. Author: LEON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE. Location: MEDICAL ACADEMY. France.

Stocking maker - China. Engraving, 1812.

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), speaking against the theory of spontaneous generation of life, explaining his proof that invisible microscopic organisms explained many phenomena that appeared to be the generation of life from inanimate matter. Ca. 1895.

Illustration showing a Victorian scientist holding a huge bone from a prehistoric animal. Lithograph by F. John from "Tiere der Urwelt" Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1910, Hamburg. From a series of prehistoric creature cards published by the Reichardt Cocoa company.

Some Fellows of the Royal Society: a key to the identities of the sitters. Wood engraving, 1885.

Influence of the morality or immorality of the physiognomy, vintage engraving. Influence of the morality or immorality of the physiognomy, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1847. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673466

Andreas Vesalius. Lithograph by A. Mouilleron after E. J. C. Hamman, 1849.

In the laboratory with J. Wickersheimer, 1832 - 1896, chemist, taxidermist, developer of a method for preserving corpses, historical engraving, 1883

Medical professors at the University of Vienna. Lithograph by J. Stadler, 1855, after A. Prinzhofer, 1853.

The Laboratory of A. d'Ailly near the Bulwark on the Zaagmolenpoort in Amsterdam, Johannes Jelgerhuis, 1818

Chemical laboratory, 1886, University Leipzig, Germany

The famous gargantua, color printing

Crinololinomania ./par Ch. Vernier / Crinoline has good! (to proof!) (Registered title (letter)) | Crinolinomania. (Title of all)

JULES VERNE with scenes from '20,000 lieues sous les mers' and 'L'Ile Mysterieuse' Date: 1828 - 1905

Caucasian and Mongolian men. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842.

History of Electricity: Ramsden demonstrating his static electric machine in a fashionable household, 1766. Liebig Trade Card c1910. Science Technology Electricity

History of Electricity: Ramsden demonstrating his static electric machine in a fashionable household, 1766. Liebig Trade Card c1910. Science Technology Electricity

Laboratorium chemisch. - Chémic laboratory.

of 3