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Flint Hatchet, Stone Age Tool
Flint Knife and Flint Hatchet, Stone Age Tools
Flint Hatchet with Staghorn Sheath, Stone Age Tool
Manual Papermaking
Alessandro Volta, Italian Physicist
Hallstatt Tombs, Prehistoric Cemetery
Stone Age Drawing and Sculpture, Prehistoric Arts
Geological timescale (1867)
Morse Telegraph, Signal Receiver, 19th Century
?rsted Magnetic Needle, Electromagnetism, 1820
Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler
Pierre de Fermat (1595?-1665) French mathematician
General view of a Tanyard
Apparatus for the dry vulcanization of rubber
Napoleon's soldiers defending a telegraph post
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish born
Illustration showing Making dips for candles
Nicholas Lemery (1645-1715) French physician and
Hippolyte Fizeau (1819-1896) French physicist
Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777), French botanist
Denis Papin (1647-1712) French physicist. Among
Henri Giffard's (1825-1882) steam-powered steerable
Sectional view of lead chamber process for large-scale
George Louis Lesage (1724-1803), Swiss scientist
The French physicist Denis Papin's (1647-1712)
Jacquard loom showing the punched cards carrying
Charles Jackson (1805-1880) experimenting on himself
Granier de Cassagnac using ether to induce dreams
William Morton demonstrating the safety of ether
Horace Wells (1815-1845) committing suicide in
Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) experimenting with laughing
Louis Francois Clement Breguet (1804-1883) French
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1894) French chemist
Elisha Gray (1835-1901), American inventor, presenting
Sectional view of Gay-Lussac's lead chambers and
Friedrich Wohler (1800-1882) German organic chemist
Charles Christofle (1805-1863) French silversmith
Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836) French mathematician
Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836) French mathematician
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen (1811-1899)
Artist's impression of the Benjamin Franklin's
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) of Lacock
Joseph Black (1728-99) Scottish chemist, lecturing
Claude Louis, Comte Berthollet (1748-1822) French
Workmen building a telegraph station to be fitted
Claude Chappe's (1763-1805) aerial telegraph (semaphore)
Artist's reconstruction of the scene when Tsar
Caselli's Pantelegraph: one of the first machines
Cauldrons for the steam vulcanization of rubber
Machine making elastic thread
Artist's impression of Claude Chappe (1763-1805)
Jean Baptiste Biot (1774-1864) and Joseph Louis
Rolling mill in which blocks of refined rubber
Kicking-down a well. The spring-pawl method of
Edwin Laurentine Drake (1810-1880), American oil
Gaston Plante (1834-1889) French physicist
Johann Friedrich Bottger (1682-1719); German ceramacist
Claude Louis, Comte Berthollet (1748-1822) French chemist
Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847) French geologist
Gaston Plante (1834-1889) French physicist
Antoine-Laurent Jussieu (1748-1836), French botanist
Paris Observatory in the time of Louis XIV. 1669
Jean Baptiste von Helmont (1579-1644). Belgian
Luigi Palmieri (1807-1896), Italian geophysicist
Guillaume Francois Rouelle (1703-1770) French
Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reamur (1683-1757) French
Death of Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus
William Harvey (1578-1657) English physician
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian astronomer
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759)
Galileo observing the swaying of the chandelier
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) demonstrating his
Theophrastus (c372-c287 BC) Ancient Greek philosopher
George Wilhelm Richmann (1711-1753) professor
John Watkins Brett (1805-1863) English telegraph
Antoine Alexandre Brutus Bussy (1794-1882) French
Harvey demonstrating circulation of the blood
Sectional view of a telegraph tower using Chappe's
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) English engineer
Breaking up strips of crude rubber for refining
Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) Italian biologist
Oil wells at Oil Creek, 150 miles up the Allegheny
Central Telephone Exchange, rue de Lafayette
Euclid (3rd century BC) Ancient Greek mathematician
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