BABBAGE CALCULATOR, 1864.
BABBAGE COMPUTER.
BABBAGE'S CALCULATOR, 1860s.
CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871).
The Grand Theodolite.
James Watt's parallel motion.
LEIBNITZ CALCULATOR.
BABBAGE CALCULATOR.
Difference engine designed by Charles Babbage.
PASCALINE CALCULATOR, 1654.
Diagram showing the various angles of cut of a cone by Daniel Schwenter
Diagram explaining the Christiaan Huygens' wave theory of light by refraction.
EDISON: TELEPHONE.
GEORGE BOOLE (1815-1864).
FRANKLIN: WATER BOILING.
James Watt's steam engine.
The Weser workmen destroying Papin's steamboat.
ARCHIMEDES (287?-212 B.C.).
EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI
Denis Papin
1881 German version of the World Map 1531.
A.-M. Ampere
A Brewster Stereoscope.
FELIX DU TEMPLE'S PATENT.
Experiment designed to measure the force of a falling body according to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation.
ARCHIMEDES (c287-212 B.C.).
James Nasmyth.
The governor of James Watt's steam engine.
The end beam of James Watt's steam engine.
James Watt's sun-and-planet gears.
JAN SZCZEPANIK (1872-1926).
ARCHIMEDES: SCREW.
One of Evangelista Torricelli's experiments on barometric pressure.
HUYGENS: CLOCK, 1724.
AIR BATH, 1768.
NIKOLA TESLA (1856-1943).
The condenser of James Watt's steam engine.
The steam indicator of James Watt's steam engine.
LEIBNITZ MS. DIAGRAM.
JAMES GREGORY (1638-1675).
EDISON: PHONOGRAPH, 1878.
SIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE
BEER BREWING, 1853.
Diagram depicting a multiple Archimedean screws powered by a water wheel.
John Napier Of Merchiston
Ada Lovelace
EDISON LAMP, 19th CENTURY.
Portrait of Robert Gordon of Straloch
James Watt.
ROTARY STEAM ENGINE.
WATT'S STEAM ENGINE, 1788.
ELECTROSTATIC GENERATOR.
Denis Papin.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
THOMAS EDISON (1847-1931).
DAVISSON & GERMER, c1927.
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, 1854 1931
Sir Humphry Davy.
CRAMPTON LOCOMOTIVE.
ALFRED L. VAIL (1807-1859).
CENSUS MACHINE, 1890.
John Henry Pepper.
Elisha's telephone.
Elisha Gray's telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell.
GAS METER.
TELEPHONE, 19th CENTURY.
JANOS BOLYAI (1802-1860).
SOPHIE GERMAIN (1776-1831).
Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer
A woman viewing a picture through a Brewster Stereoscope.
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, 1792 187
EDISON TELEPHONE, 1879.
A Wheatstone stereoscope.
Papin's steam engine.
CALLAUD BATTERY, c1860.
An experiment involving an inclined plane used to demonstrate the action of gravity on a falling body.
ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691).
LEIBNIZ'S STEPPED RECKONER
The unveiling of the statue of Denis Papin.
An adaptation of Newcomen's atmospheric steam engine.
Richard Arkwright's water fame spinning machine.
Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric steam engine.
Archibald Montgomery Low, 1888 - 1956
DRILLING MACHINE.
Archimedes (c287-212 BC)
FRANKLIN: WATER SPOUT.
Imaginative realisation of Newton's 'Steam Engine'.
TELEGRAPH, 1833.
Hertha Ayrton
Andre-Jacques Garnerin, 1769 182
Babbage's diving bell
MICHELSON: INTERFEROMETER.
Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1802 1875
Gauthey's acoustic tubes, 1782
Edison's electro-motograph.
STEAM CARRIAGE, 1860.
SEWING MACHINE, 1850s.
SEWING MACHINE.
RUDOLF CLAUSIUS (1822-1888).
AUGUST FERDINAND MOEBIUS
GEORGE EVEREST (1790-1866).
CHARLES L. DODGSON,
MORSE TELEGRAPH RECEIVER.
THE EQUATORIAL TELESCOP
WATT'S STEAM ENGINE, 1769.
THOMPSON: DRIP COFFEE POT
Impression of Elisha Gray.
Wall telephone.
ADER AIRPLANE, 1897.
Sir David Brewster
PATRICK BELL (1799-1869).
Replica of the apparatus with which Morse sent his first public telegraph message on 24th May 1844.
JAMES WATT (1736-1819).
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Karl Weierstrass.
Bernhard Riemann.
Joseph Lagrange, French mathematician
ISAAC NEWTON: MANUSCRIPT.
Francis Ronalds.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1643-1727).
Alfred North Whitehead.
Nicholas Saunderson.
ARABIC MANUSCRIPT: OPTICS.
Spread from Petrus Apianus' Cosmographiia.
Petrus Apianus' Cosmographiia.
Gemma Frisius.
WARREN DE LA RUE (1815-1889).
Julian Leopold Ochorowicz.
DENIS PAPIN (1647-1712).
JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE
BENJAMIN THOMPSON
THOMAS A. EDISON (1847-1931).
Wilhelm Eduard Weber.
Ivan Petrovich Kulibin.
Gower-bell telephone.