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William Edward Ayrton (1847-1908) British physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. Professor of electrical engineering, South Kensington. Photograph published c1890. Woodburytype
Horemheb (reigned c1348-c1320 BC) last king of 18th dynasty, flanked by goddess Isis (horns and solar disc on head) and her son the falcon headed god Horus. Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt
William Penn (1644-1718) English Quaker colonist, treating with native North Americans on the site of Philadelphia, November, 1682. Indian sitting on left is holding a pipe of peace
Production and processing various sorts of glass from Plate, Sheet (window) and moulded wares, to Crystal and Optical items. Print c1870
View of Earth from Apollo 10 from approximately 100, 000 miles. Europe, Asia and parts of Africa visible with some cloud cover. NASA photograph
Chariot race in Ancient Rome, late 19th century illustration. Bread and circuses were two methods used to keep Emperors in favour with the citizens of Rome
Epicurus (341-271BC) Ancient Greek philosopher and founder of Epicurean school. Portrait bust
Mithras, ancient Persian god of light and ruler of universe, slaying the bull. Roman marble sculpture. AD100-150, Vienna, Kunsthistorische Museum
Neptune, god of the oceans. From an antique bust
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) Italian radio pioneer, right, and David Sarnoff (1891-1971) Russian-born American pioneer of radio and television broadcasting, at RCAs Radio Central, Riverhead
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (born Hahn) 1831-1891. Russian-born American theosophist, photographed at Ithaca, NY 1875, the year she co-founded the Theosophical Society with Henry Olcott
Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955), German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, at Mount Wilson Observatory, United States, examining the spectrograph at base of 150-foot tower telescope
Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Queen of England and Ireland from 1558. Last Tudor monarch. Crayon drawing of 1575 attributed to Fredrigo Zuccero or Zucchero
Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) British physicist. Electrical resistances. Electric telegraph. Concertina
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) English chemist and Presbyterian minister. Reverse of commemorative medal dated 1803 showing his pneumatic trough for collecting gases, and other equipment
William Caxton (c1422-91) English printer, presenting to Edward IV what is considered first book printed in England Dictes or Sayeings of the Philosophres 1477, translated by 2nd Earl Rivers
Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Queen of England and Ireland from 1558. Signature
The Military Accelerator. Suggested use by the Cavalryof the Hobby-Horse or Dandy-Horse introduced into the British Isles in 1818. From a print published in Dublin c1820
Stamp for breaking copper cupellation cakes for further refining, powered by water wheel through drive shaft. From Agricola De re matallica, Basle, 1556. Woodcut
Aztec temple sacrifice. From Codex Magliabicciano. Museo de America, Madrid
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), Scottish mathematician and physicist. From photograph taken in 1897
Nesitanebtashru ploughing and reaping. From The Greenfield Papyrus (funerary papyrus of Princess Nesitanebtashru) c 970 BC
Mark Hanna (1837-1904) American businessman and politician
Pericles / Perikles (c490-429 BC), Athenian statesman, and some of the public buildingsPericles/Perikles (c490-429 BC), Athenian statesman, and some of the public buildings erected in Athens under his patronage. Woodcut from the Rev. Royal Robbins The World Displayed, New York, 1830
President William McKinleys state bedroom at the White House, Washington, c1901
Gathering mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Chinese painting on rice paper. 19th century
Isis (centre), sister and wife of Osiris, principal goddess of Egyptian pantheon, shown with her head-dress of horns and solar disc and holding Ankh, the symbol of life
Eddystone lighthouse, built on the Eddystone Rock by the English Civil Enggineer John Smeaton from 1757-1759. Chromolithograph after painting by JMW Turner
Aztec sculpture of seated male figure. Reissmuseum, Zeughaus, Mannheim
Pan-American Exhibition at Buffalo. It was in the Temple of Music that William McKinley, 25th president of USA, was shot by Leon Czolgosz on 6 Sept 1901
Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) American statesman, printer and scientist. Anonymous portrait
Elias Howe (1819-1867), American inventor, patented the first lock-stitch sewing machine in 1846. Woman using a Howe machine. From Adams Illustrated Panorama of History, c1878. Chromolithograph
Achilles, hero of Homers epic poem Iliad, bandaging the wound of his firend Patroclus. Decoration on the base of an antique vase
Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals (1837-1923) Dutch physicist. Nobel prize for physics 1910. 1873 equation defining physical state of gas or liquid. Obverse of commemorative medal
Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) Scottish bacteriologist and surgeon. Discovered penicillin 1928. Shared Nobel prize with Florey and Chain (1945)
Friedrich Engels (1820-95) in 1879. German socialist and collaborator and supporter of Karl Marx. Lived mainly in England from 1842. Cooperated on the Communist Manifesto (1848)
Pottery figure from Vard Cruz: Mexico Totoniac Abbey Museum
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) British physicist and chemist. From a hand-tinted photograph
Temple of Hathor, Abu Simbel, Aswan, Egypt. Hathor was the wife of the Ancient Egyptian sun god. Smaller than the Temple of Rameses II (1279-1213 BC)
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne CecilL, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury (1830-1903) British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister 1885, 1886, 1895-1902. Photograph published c1880. Woodburytype
Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955), German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, with a student
Nefertiti 14th century BC, queen consort of Akenaton (Akhenaten) the heretic pharaoh. Sandstone bust. Profile
Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) English natural philosopher and chemist. Cavendish Physical Laboratory, Cambridge, named after him. Lithograph published c 1851
Marco Polo (1254-1324) Venetian traveller and merchant with his brothers presenting the Popes letter to Kublai Khan (1214-94) Great Khan of the Moguls and, from 1271, Emperor of China. Manuscript
Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536) first wife of Henry VIII of England, Daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Miniature attributed to Horneholte
Wife of president William McKinley in the conservatory of the White House at Washington
Joseh Lister (1827-1912), English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery, c1855. From a daguerreotpe taken when he was about 28. Photograph
Different forms of blast furnace. Bellows supplying draught are powered by overshot water wheel. From Vannocio Biringuccio De la Pirotechnia, Venice 1540
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