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Sectional view of a telegraph tower for Claude Chappe's semaphore, 1792, (c1870)
 
Claude Chappe demonstrating his optical telegraph (semaphore) system in 1793 (c1870)
 
Descartes representation of the antagonistic eye muscles, 1692
 
Rene Descartes idea of vision, showing the function of the eye, optic nerve and brain, 1692
 
Rene Descartes illustration of the co-ordination of the senses, 1692
 
Rene Descartes diagram of the human brain and eye, 1692
 
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, in his laboratory, 1814
 
John Law, Comptroller General of France, 1720 (1841)
 
John Bennett Lawes, English agriculturalist, 1882
 
John Bennett Lawes, English agriculturalist, 1882. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
 
Harry John Lawson, English inventor of a safety bicycle, 19th century
 
Isaac Lea, American publisher, geologist and conchologist, 1896
 
Title page of Microscopium by Dutch microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1708
 
Frontispiece of Ontledigen en Ondekkigen...Brieven by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1686
 
Newcomen-type steam engine attributed to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, 1767
 
Cross section of a Newcomen-type steam engine attributed to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, 1767
 
Claude Bernard, 19th century French physiologist, 1913
 
Henry Bessemer, British engineer and inventor, 19th century
 
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, 1948
 
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, 1801
 
Medal commemorating the discovery of penicillin, 1945
 
Leonid meteor shower, 1870
 
Plaquette commemorating the death of Henri Poincare, French mathematician, 1912
 
Edgar Berillon, French psychologist, 1929
 
Edgar Berillon, French psychologist, 1929
 
Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, 1870. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
 
Thomas Alva Edison's first Phonograph, 1878 (1915)
 
Producing salt by evaporating natural brine by pouring it into a pit of burning charcoal, 1556
 
Mining for rock salt, c1890
 
Jean Henri Fabre, French entomologist, 1911. Artist: L Patriarche
 
Insects, 1911. Artist: L Patriarche
 
The solar spectrum, 1814
 
Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551
 
Justus von Liebig, German chemist, at work in his laboratory, mid 19th century (c1885)
 
Title page of Dialogo, by Galileo, 1632
 
Making Edison light bulbs, 1880
 
Bell telephone, 1882. Artist: Alexander Graham Bell
 
Bird Catching from Below Shetland Islands, 1813
 
Bird Catching from Above Shetland Islands, 1813
 
Flight of locks on the Saima Canal, Finland, c1900
 
Solar motor by Aubrey Eneas of Boston, c1905 (c1910)
 
Cretin aged 15, c1890
 
Glass cutter decorating table ware on a carborundum wheel, 1867
 
Seamen hauling a clinker-built dinghy up onto the shore, 1821
 
Various pumps for draining ships, 1816
 
Various pumps for raising water, 1816
 
Boring wooden pipes, and casting and drawing iron pipes, c1825
 
Mendelian inheritance of colour of flower in the culinary pea, 1912
 
Killing Birds of Paradise, New Guinea, 1908
 
Cameramen under fire while filming in the First Balkan War, 1912
 
The Wear above Sunderland Iron Bridge, c1829. Artist: R Francis
 
Villa Tournesol, 1899
 
Potato peeler, 1899
 
Electric overhead monorail at Barmen-Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), Germany,1901
 
Using a laryngoscope to aid the removal of a polyp from the throat, c1890
 
Painting a wound with an antiseptic solution, c1890
 
Typical enlarged spleen of a Malaria patient, c1890
 
Edward Jenner, English physician, 1800
 
Medal commemorating the discovery of smallpox vaccination in 1796 (1800)
 
Obverse of a medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577