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Reverse of a medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577
 
Obverse of a medal commemorating the brilliant comet of November 1618
 
Reverse of a medal commemorating the brilliant comet of November 1618
 
Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist, 1870
 
Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist, c1895
 
Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, c1830. Artist: William Home Lizars
 
Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, 20th century
 
Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, British industrialist, c1926
 
Linus Pauling, American chemist, c1954
 
John Ross, British polar explorer and naval officer, 19th century
 
Christian Friedrich Schonbein, German chemist, c1898
 
Inclined plane powered by water wheel in used on a canal, 1796
 
Inclined planes for use on canals, 1796
 
Double inclined plane for moving tub boats from one level to another on a canal, 1796
 
Washing ore to extract gold, 1683
 
Furnace for processes where protracted heat required, such as cementation, 1580
 
Athanor or Slow Harry a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683
 
Athanor or Slow Harry a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683
 
Distillation of Nitric Acid, 1683
 
Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683
 
Production of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683
 
Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683
 
Crystallization of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683
 
Von Guericke's demonstration of the strength of a vacuum, 1654 (1672)
 
Experiment designed to show that air has weight, 1672
 
Von Guericke's demonstration of the power of air pressure, 1672
 
Pound lock, 1664
 
Roller bridge or inclined plane for transferring vessels from one level of a canal to another, 1737
 
Whitby harbour, Yorkshire, at the mouth of the river Esk, c1833
 
Chinese agriculture, 1825-1835
 
Mr O'Brien, the Irish Giant, the Tallest Man in the Known World 1803. Creator: John Kay
 
Demonstration or Cause & Effect 1817
 
Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand, London c1820
 
Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880. Artist: Geoffrey Douglas Giles
 
Abel Pifre's solar-powered printing press, c1894 ([c1927)
 
Idea for a video-phone using neon tubes to give the picture display, c1927
 
Cashew nut - Anacardium occidentale, c1798
 
John Lubbock, first Baron Avebury, English banker, archaeologist, naturalist and politician, c1880
 
John Lubbock, first Baron Avebury, English banker, archaeologist, naturalist and politician, 1882. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
 
Samuel Wilberforce, English prelate, 1873
 
Richard Owen, English zoologist, 1884. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
 
Richard Owen, British naturalist, c1856 (1891)
 
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1881. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
 
Thomas, Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1877. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
 
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, 1883
 
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, c1880
 
John Tyndall, Irish-born British physicist and populariser of science, c1880
 
Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist, c1880. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
 
Jean Baptiste Biot and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French scientists, 1804 (1870)
 
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist, c1860
 
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist, c1895
 
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist, physicist and balloonist, c1824
 
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac making a balloon ascent from Paris, 14 September 1804 (1910)
 
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist, physicist and balloonist, c1870
 
Experiment to calculate the speed of sound in air, Paris, 1822 (1873). Artist: Amedee Guillemin
 
Experiment to calculate the speed of sound in air, Paris, 1822, (c1880). Artist: Robert Brown
 
Obverse of commemorative medal for Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), 1803
 
Reverse of commemorative medal for Joseph Priestley, English chemist, 1803
 
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), English Presbyterian minister and chemist, 1801
 
Wedgewood plaque of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)