Popular Science Collection (page 2)

Photographic distortion technique, 1893
Photographic distortion technique. 19th-century photographs showing a mans head distorted using the photographic techniques of Louis Ducos du Hauron

Panama Canal construction, 1893 C013 / 9095
Panama Canal construction, 19th-century artwork. The first attempt to build a canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans was made by the French at sea level from 1881 to 1889

Vaccine research, 1893
Vaccine research, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 11th volume (first period of 1893) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Vaccine research, 1890
Vaccine research, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 11th volume (first period of 1893) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Distance-measuring devices, 1893 C013 / 9094
Distance-measuring devices, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 11th volume (first period of 1893) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

F. van Rysselberghe, Belgian engineer
Francois van Rysselberghe (1846-1893), Belgian engineer and meteorologist. Van Rysselberghe proposed the principle of transmitting telephone and telegraph signals along the same wires

Telephone switchboard exchange, 1893
Telephone switchboard exchange. 19th-century artwork of woman operating the exchange at a telephone bureau. They are using receivers to listen to incoming calls and using the wires

Telephone switchboard, 1893
Telephone switchboard, 19th-century artwork. The woman is using headphone receivers and a speaker to listen to and reply to incoming calls

Gravity demonstrations, 1893
Gravity demonstrations, 19th-century artwork. These diagrams demonstrate how a ring descending a piece of string behaves differently depending on how the string is handled

Railway bridge over the Tanaro, 1893
Railway bridge over the Tanaro, 19th-century artwork. This steel bridge was built in the 1890s over the River Tanaro, near Asti in north-western Italy

Toxicology laboratory, 1893
Toxicology laboratory, 19th-century artwork. Toxicology is the science of analysing and testing poisons and determining their effects on humans

Telegraphic ticker machine, 1893 C013 / 9086
Telegraphic ticker machine, 19th-century artwork. This ticker machine is designed for use by financial institutions, in this case by Agence Fournier at the Paris Bourse (Paris stock exchange)

Night lamp design, 1893 C013 / 9083
Night lamp design, 19th-century artwork. The device is a combination of a timer and a spring-loaded candle (left) in front of a dial

Carboniferous landscape, 19th century
Carboniferous landscape, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 11th volume (first period of 1893) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Conjoined twins, 1893
Conjoined twins (sisters Radica and Doodica), 19th-century artwork. These sisters were born in Orissa, India in 1888. They were joined at the chest

Gold detector, 1893
Gold detector, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 11th volume (first period of 1893) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Police camera, 1893 C013 / 9077
Police camera, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 11th volume (first period of 1893) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Light buoy, 1890 C013 / 9075
Light buoy, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 6th volume (second period of 1890) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Maximus camera, 1893 C013 / 9078
Maximus camera, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 11th volume (first period of 1893) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Steam locomotive, 1890 C013 / 9072
Steam locomotive, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 6th volume (second period of 1890) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Petrol motor, 1890 C013 / 9076
Petrol motor, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 6th volume (second period of 1890) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Thermometer design, 1890 C013 / 9070
Thermometer design, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 6th volume (second period of 1890) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Edison light bulb, 1890
Edison light bulb, 19th-century artwork. This design is one of the early version of the light bulb invented by US inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

Pressed leaves, 1890 C013 / 9071
Pressed leaves, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 6th volume (second period of 1890) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Chromatrope design, 1890
Chromatrope design, 19th-century artwork. Invented in 1846 by the Scottish physicist David Brewster (1781-1868), this device is similar to the earlier kaleidoscope

Pasteur Institute vaccine research, 1890 C013 / 9067
Vaccine research at the Pasteur Institute (Institut Pasteur), 19th-century artwork. The Institut was built in Paris, France, from public subscription in honour of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

Optical telegraphy, 1890
Optical telegraphy. 19th-century artwork of French soldiers using optical telegraphy. One such early device was the Mangin projector, invented by a colonel Mangin in the early 1880s

Phonograph apparatus, 1890 C013 / 9063
Phonograph apparatus, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 6th volume (second period of 1890) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Titanotherium fossil skeleton, 1890 C013 / 9064
Titanotherium fossil skeleton, 19th-century artwork. This large extinct mammal is part of the Brontotheriidae family. These mammals lived around 35 to 55 million years ago

Large water barometer, 1890 C013 / 9061
Large water barometer, 19th-century artwork. Artwork from the 5th volume (first period of 1890) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Goubet submarine, 1880s
Goubet submarine, 19th-century artwork. This early submarine, built by the French inventor Claude Goubet in 1881, was designed for two people

Goubet submarine, 1880s C013 / 9058
Goubet submarine, 19th-century artwork. This early submarine, built by the French inventor Claude Goubet in 1881, was designed for two people

James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer
James Nasmyth (1808-1890), Scottish engineer. Nasmyth was the son of a landscape painter in Edinburgh. Although his formal schooling finished when he was 12

Refrigerated meat railway carriage, 1890 C013 / 9060
Refrigerated meat railway carriage, 19th-century artwork. The carcasses here are mutton and lamb. Artwork from the 5th volume (first period of 1890)

John Fowler, British civil engineer
John Fowler (1817-1898), British civil engineer. Fowler designed many railway bridges, including (with Benjamin Baker) the cantilever bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland

William Arrol, Scottish civil engineer
William Arrol (1839-1913), Scottish civil engineer. Arrol designed the second Tay Bridge and Forth Rail Bridge (both in Scotland), Tower Bridge, London, and the Nile Bridge in Cairo, Egypt

Davy experimenting at Vesuvius, 1819
Davy experimenting at Vesuvius. 19th-century artwork of British chemist Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) in 1819 carrying out experiments on the slopes of the volcano Mount Vesuvius, near Naples, Italy

Charles Gaudichaud, French botanist
Charles Gaudichaud (1789-1854), French botanist, using a microscope to examine specimens collected during a voyage of exploration

Benjamin Baker, British civil engineer
Benjamin Baker (1840-1907), British civil engineer. Baker was apprenticed at an ironworks aged 16 before working with John Fowler on the London Underground railway in the 1860s

Influenza quarantine, 1890
Influenza quarantine. 19th-century artwork of a quarantine tent established outside a hospital in Beaujon, France, during an outbreak of influenza

Elisee Trivier, French explorer
Elisee Trivier (1842-1912), French explorer. Trivier followed in the footsteps of Scottish missionary David Livingstone in his attempt to explore the interior of Africa

Henry Stanley, Anglo-American explorer
Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Anglo-American journalist and explorer. Stanley was sent by the New York Herald in 1869 to find the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873)

Electrical power station, 1890
Electrical power station. 19th-century artwork of the inside of an electrical power station built for the Halles area of Paris, France

Electric dynamo, 1890 C013 / 9045
Electric dynamo. 19th-century artwork of a Ferranti electric dynamo, as constructed by the London Electric Supply Corporation

Electric dynamo armature, 1890 C013 / 9044
Electric dynamo armature. 19th-century artwork of the armature of a Ferranti electric dynamo, as constructed by the London Electric Supply Corporation

Camille Douls, French explorer
Camille Douls (1864-1889), French explorer. Douls explored North Africa and the French (western) area of the Sahara in two expeditions of 1887 and 1889

Linotype typesetting machine, 1889
Linotype typesetting machine. 19th-century artwork showing a printer operating a newly invented typesetting machine called the linotype

Steam locomotive cabin, 1889 C013 / 8796
Steam locomotive cabin. 19th-century artwork of the operating platform for an express locomotive used on the French railways in the 1880s. Various components and levers are labelled with letters

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