Crampton Locomotive, 1849. Model . This locomotive was designed by T R Crampton for the Northern Railway of France, and was of the engine type...Crampton Locomotive, 1849. Model (scale 3:2
This machine helped reduce labour costs in making a flat metal surface. Sir Joseph Whitworth , was an English mechanical engineer who pioneered...Whitworths machine for planing metal, 1842.
The mines at Alderley Edge were worked from probably as early as the Bronze Age until the early 20th century. The material mined was predominantly...Ordinary copper ore from Alderly Edge, Cheshire.
These coins are from a collection formed by Dr John Percy FRS, between 1842 and 1889, illustrative of his treatise on metallurgy. The collection...Coins from the Duke of Northumberlands collection.
Sir Charles Wheatstone believed a telegraph system should be simple to operate. His ABC receiver was popular with businesses and in government...Early Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, c 1842.
Fax machine reads an image from one piece of paper, then sends the image over a telephone line, where another fax machine receives it and prints out...Canon �Fax L-700� fax machine, 1997.Fax Machine, Machinery
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse , built a series of telescopes at Birr Castle, his home in Ireland. He was interested in the construction of large...Rosse Mirror, 1844-66.
Pages from an experimental notebook of Sir John Herschel dated 11-13 February. The page shows photogenic drawing negatives with notes on 'fixing'...Notebook belonging to Sir John Herschels, English astronomer, 1839.
Pages from an experimental notebook of Sir John Herschel dated 11-13 February 1839. Herschel was an English astronomer, mathematician and chemist,...John F W Herschels notebook, 1839.
View inside case. This is possibly the second of two single-lens cameras designed by Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince . Made in Leeds, Yorkshire, this...Le Prince single-lens cine camera, 1888.
This case was for a photograph of William Herschel's forty-foot telescope, which was the earliest known photograph on a glass negative. The image has...Case for glass negative by John Herschel, 1839.
The photograph shows the decaying framework of William Herschel's forty-foot telescope. This experimental negative, silver on glass, is the earliest...First glass negative by John Herschel, 1839.
Die Bahnstation Bergedorf der ersten Hamburger Eisenbahnlinie, die nach Osten führte, verweist auf einen der großen Hamburger Architekten des 19....Grundeigentümerverband Hamburg
We are looking up from below at a Latin inscription describing the era of Elizabethan rule, a classic neo-Romanesque architecture of the Royal...England - London - Cornhill Exchange inscription
Wellington Circus and St Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, c1870. St Barnabas Roman Catholic Cathedral was designed by AW Pugin, at a...Wellington Circus and St Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, c1870.
St Barnabas Cathedral, Derby Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, c1870-1880. St Barnabas Roman Catholic Cathedral was designed by AW Pugin, at a cost...St Barnabas Cathedral, Derby Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, c1870-1880.Cathedral
Mainland Chinese tourist looks at photos of former Hong Kong Governors from 1843 to 1941while touring the Museum of History, 17 September 2003. Hong...A mainland Chinese tourist looks at phot
Mainland Chinese tourist looks at photos of former Hong Kong Governors from 1843 to 1941while touring the Museum of History, 17 September 2003. Hong...HONG KONG-MUSEUM-GOVERNORS
English artist Pat Elliott Shircore looks at the her digitally superimposed picture of the Treaty of Nanking 24 June at an art gallery showing her...HONG KONG-TREATY OF NANKING
The Hall of the Swiss Guard with frescoed ceiling, by Charles Bellosio, 1835-1842, Royal Palace , , Turin. Italy, 19th century.The Hall of the Swiss Guard with frescoed ceiling
English artist Pat Elliot Shircore looks at her digitally superimposed picture of the Treaty of Nanking at an art gallery showing her work on June...CHINA-HONG KONG-RETROCESSION
