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(James) Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937), born at Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. British Labour (socialist) politician and the first Labour Prime Minister (1922-1924 and 1929)
James Bradley (1692-1762) English astronomer, born at Sherborne, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Appointed Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford (1721)
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803) English nobleman. He commissioned the civil engineer James Brindley to build a canal to serve his mines at Worsley, Lancashire
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish orator, political philosopher and writer, member of the Whig political party. Engraving after the portrait by Joshua Reynolds
Catherine II, the Great (1729-1796), Empress of Russia. From The Gallery of Portraits, Vol VII, by Charles Knight (London, 1837). Engraving
John Sobieski (1629-1696), John III, king of Poland from 1674. Polish warrior and statesman. From The Gallery of Portraits by Charles Knight (London, 1834). Engraving
Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), English inventor and industrialist, born at Preston in Lancashire. Inventor in 1769 of the spinning frame (water frame)
William Brande (1788-1866), English chemist born in London. He succeeded Humphry Davy as professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, London, in 1813
Friedrich Wohler (1800-1882), German organic chemist. Isolated aluminium (1827), synthesised urea (1828), discovered beryllium (1828), and obtained acetylene from calcium carbide
Thomas Thomson (1773-1852), Scottish chemist born at Crieff, Perthshire. Regius professor of chemistry at Glasgow university (1817). From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry (London, c1860). Engraving
William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), English chemist, born at East Dereham, Norfolk, England. Wollaston discovered Palladium (1804), Rhodium (1805), and Ductile Platinum
Andrew Ure (1778-1857), Scottish chemist and scientific writer born in Glasgow. His Dictionary of Chemistry appeared in 1821. He also wrote on manufactures and industrial processes
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English chemist and physicist. In 1813 became laboratory assistant to Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution, London
George Fownes (1815-1849). British chemist. First professor of chemistry at the Pharmaceutical Society of Londons School of Pharmacy 1842-1846. From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry (London, c1860)
Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853), German physiological chemist. Professor of chemistry and medicine at Heidelberg University 1817-1852. From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry (London, c1860). Engraving
Thomas Graham (1805-1869) Scottish chemist who laid the foundations of physical chemistry. From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry (London, c1860). Engraving. British
Eben Norton Horsfod (1818-1893) American chemist and disciple of Liebig. Called The father of American food technology. Discovered Baking Powder
William Gregory (1803-1858), Scottish chemist. Professor of medicine and chemistry at Kings College, Aberdeen, and from 1843 Professor of chemistry at Edinburgh university
Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863), German chemist and crystallographer who, in 1819, noted the phenomenon of Isomorphism. From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry (London, c1860). Engraving
James Sheridan Muspratt (1821-1871), studied chemistry under Thomas Graham at Glasgow and London, and under Justus von Liebig at Giessen (1843)
An Artificer or Pyrotechnist setting light to Another fixed Wheele upon a post, which will cast forth many Rockets into the Aire
Arrival of the Great Western at New York (1838), c1895. Steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) and built by William Patterson (1795-1869) of Bristol
A Pyrotechnist or Firework-maker making a rocket. He is pulling the end of a rocket case very tightly so that it will take the explosive charge properly
Filling a firework rocket. The case or coffin of paper is placed in a form and forced to a good fit with a couple of sharp blows with a mallet
Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), 1843. Brunel acknowledging the cheers of the crowd during the opening ceremony for the Thames Tunnel. The double arched masonry Thames Tunnel built 1825-1843
Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872) English churchman. Bishop of St Asaph. Friend of John Keble and Edward Bouverie Pusey, members of the Oxford Movement (Tractarians)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), English engineer and inventor, 1890. From The Sea by F Whymper. (London, c1890)
Wilhelm II (1859-1941) Emperor of Germany 1888-1918. Photographic portrait published in London in 1887 before his father began his brief reign as Frederick II
Sidney Webb, Baron Passfield (1859-1947) English political economist and social reformer. Instrumental in the founding of the London School of Economics. Photograph published London c1890
Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) Hungarian violinist, composer and Director of Berlin Conservatory. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery (London, 1890-1894). Woodburytype after photograph by W & D Downey
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