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Inside a Cheshire salt mine, 1889
 
Descartes idea of the hydraulic action of the nerves, 1692
 
Napoleon's troops defending a telegraph tower, c1815, (c1870)
 
Building a Chappe telegraph station, c1793, (c1870). Artist: Anon
 
Chappe's aerial telegraph system, Algeria, mid-19th century, (c1870). Artist: Anon
 
First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, early 19th century, (c1870)
 
Caselli's pantelegraph of 1865, (c1870). Artist: Anon
 
Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, c1860s
 
Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 1897. Artist: Anon
 
Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 1866. Artist: Anon
 
River Landscape with Rustics and Horses c1860. Artist: Edward Charles Williams
 
Rumford's calorimeter, 1887. Artist: Anon
 
Using gunpowder in a stone quarry, 1867. Artist: Anon
 
Early 19th century coal miner working a narrow seam, c1868. Artist: Anon
 
Ironer, 1822. Artist: Anon
 
Gout and the Spider c1835. Artist: Anon
 
The Five Senses, late 16th century. Artist: Adriaen Collaert
 
Water carrier, 1808. Artist: William Henry Pyne
 
Matlock Spa, Derbyshire, late 18th century. Artist: Anon
 
Tailor, c1845
 
 
The Swan, Goose and Duck c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
 
Phrenology, 1820 (1886). Artist: Frank Dadd
 
Remains of a Nilometer, an ancient device for measuring the annual inundation of the Nile, c1885
 
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), 19th century. Creator: Unknown
 
Cinchona (Jesuit's or Peruvian Bark) 1795
 
Train crossing Stockport viaduct on the London & North Western Railway, c1845
 
Smallpox victim, c1890
 
General properties of bodies, c1851
 
Equilibrium and movement of the air, c1851
 
Divers salvaging guns from the seabed, c1855
 
Equilibrium of Liquids, c1850
 
Light, c1850
 
Electricity, c1850
 
Communication by speaking tube, c1850
 
Magnetism, c1850
 
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, demonstrating his electric pile (battery), c1800 (c1870)
 
Joseph Wilson Swan, British physicist and chemist, demonstrating electromagnetism, 1889
 
Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, 1801 Artist: Thomson
 
John Augustus Roebling, American civil engineer, 1874
 
Washington Augustus Roebling, American civil engineer, 1883
 
Hans Lippershey, Dutch optician credited with the discovery of the telescope, 1655
 
Discovery of the principle of the telescope, 17th century (1863)
 
Construction of the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York, USA, 1880
 
Early thermometers, 1691
 
Sanctorius clinical thermometer 1612
 
Davy's electric egg, 1883
 
Joseph Whitworth, British engineer and inventor, c1880
 
Discovery of a woolly mammoth, 1779 (c1870)
 
John Tyndall lecturing on electromagnetism at the Royal Institution, London. May 1870
 
Making pots without a wheel, Nigeria, c1966
 
Making pots without a wheel, Nigeria, c1966
 
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and inventor
 
Natives of the Arctic, 1825-1835
 
Anatomy demonstration, 1493
 
Leyden jar and Pieter van Musschenbroeck's electrical experiment of 1746 (1765)
 
Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, London, c1835
 
Michael Faraday lecturing on electricity and magnetism, Royal Institution, London, 1846
 
 
Illustration from John Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866. Artist: Gustave Doré