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Autogiro, designed by Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva, 1928. Creator: Unknown
 
Henri Farman in the Farman biplane, French aviator and aircraft constructor, c1909
 
Otto Lilienthal, German gliding pioneer & aeronautical inventor, flying one of his gliders
 
Loading a biplane with passengers and luggage at Croydon Aerodrome, London
 
Death of Icarus, 18th century engraving
 
Henri Giffard's steam powered steerable (dirigible) airship, 1852
 
Henri Giffard's steerable airship of 1852, 1903
 
Clement Ader's flying bird Eole the first piloted plane to take off under its own steam, 1890
 
Balloon ascent at night from Gare du Nord, Paris, Franco-Prussian War
 
Balloon leaving from Gare du Nord, Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
 
Leon Gambetta, French politician about to escape besieged Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
 
Broadsheet showing Georges-Marie Guynemer, French air fighter ace
 
Broadsheet showing Exploits of French air ace Adolphe Pegoud
 
Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Brazilian aeronaut, unsuccessful attempt at the Deutsch Prize
 
Zeppelin airship shot down at Cuffley, near Enfield, during bombing raid on London, 1916
 
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), Dutch-born British painter, 1881
 
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish author
 
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish author, 1857
 
Henry Andrews, English astronomical calculator, author of Moore's Almanack, c1800
 
John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823), English philanthropist, merchant and Lloyds underwriter
 
Antinous (d122), Bithynian youth, favourite and companion of the Roman emperor Hadrian
 
Title page of Quadrans Apiani by German mathematician and astronomer Peter Apian, 1532
 
Title page of Isagoge in Typum Cosmographicum seu Mappam Mundi by Peter Apian, 1523
 
Ship of Odysseus (Ulysses), King of Ithaca
 
Horse and Hind, Palaeolithic cave painting from Altamira, southern Spain, c16,000-c9000 BC
 
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio c1850
 
William Blake (1757-1827), English mystic, poet, painter and engraver, 1820
 
Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford-upon-Avon, 6-8 September 1769 (1795)
 
Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark (right) and the Bear Garden, c1597 (1825)
 
It is the east and Juliet is the sun 1856-1858
 
Lemuel Gulliver, set ashore after a mutiny, finds himself in kingdom of the Houyhnhns
 
Gulliver in Lilliput
 
Sioux warriors in battle, c1890
 
Fernand Ansseau (1890-1972), Belgian operatic tenor, active 1913-1939
 
Fernand Ansseau (1890-1972), Belgian operatic tenor, active 1913-1939
 
John James Audobon (1780-1851), American ornithologist and artist, 1852
 
Title page of Instauratio Magna, by Francis Bacon, 1620
 
Jean Antoine de Baif (1532-1589), French poet
 
Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), French astronomer, writer and politician
 
Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776-1847), French social and religious philosopher
 
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist and literary critic
 
James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist, c1890
 
James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist, c1895
 
Signature of JM Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist. Artist: JM Barrie
 
Birthplace of JM Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
 
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867), French Symbolist poet and art critic, 1864-1865
 
Haeckel's comparision of embryos of Pig, Cow, Rabbit and Man. Artist: Ernst Haeckel
 
Interior of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, Engraving, 1815
 
Asa Gray, American botanist, 1888
 
Asa Gray, American botanist, 1888
 
George Wilhlem Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
 
Hugo Grotius, Dutch theologian
 
Hugo Grotius, Dutch theologian, 1762
 
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), German Romantic poet and novelist, c1800
 
School House, Fishponds, Bristol, c1880
 
Jean Racine, French poet and dramatist
 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French political author, 1787
 
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philospher and writer
 
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philospher and writer
 
Artisan family having their child baptised