Oxford Science Archive

Marco Polo sailing from Venice in 1271, (15th century) Unknown

Over London by Rail, 1872 Adolphe François Pannemaker

The Bee, c1850 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Naturalists dining inside a model of a dinosaur, Crystal Palace, Sydenham, New Year's Eve, 1853 Unknown

Jean Martin Charcot, French neurologist and pathologist, 1887 Anonymous

Fossil hunting in Cherry Hinton chalk pit, Cambridgeshire, 1822 Unknown

Tay Bridge disaster, Scotland, 28 December 1879 Frank Dadd

West India Docks, London, 1808-1810 Augustus Charles Pugin

Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist, c1670 Unknown

Brandreth's horse powered locomotive Cycloped, 1829 Unknown

Tay Bridge disaster, Scotland, 28 December 1879 Unknown

Potter at work at the Wedgwood's Etruria factory, Hanley, Staffordshire, c1830 Unknown

The Aire and Calder Navigation, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1828 J Shury

Observing a total solar eclipse, 1851 (1857) Anonymous

Weaver at his loom, 1823 Unknown

Advertisement for Sunlight household soap, c1890 Unknown

Silk weaver, Bethnal Green, East London, 1893 Anonymous

Traditional Norfolk boats, 1814 William Henry Pyne

The Whale, c1850 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

A Scientific Institution. During ye Lecture of an Eminent 'Savan', 1849 Richard Doyle

Thomas Edison, American inventor, in his laboratory, Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, 1870s (1920s) Unknown

An Allarm to Europe By a Late Prodigious Comet, 1680 Unknown

Train crossing Chat Moss, Lancashire, 1831 Henry Pyall

Jean Martin Charcot demonstrating hypnosis, 1879 Anonymous

Jean Martin Charcot, French neurologist and pathologist, 1893 Anonymous

Water carrier, 1808 William Henry Pyne

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, 1871 Unknown

Title page of The Description and Use of the Sector by Edmund Gunter, 1636 Unknown

The Survival of the Fittest; application of Darwinism in the 21st century, 1880 George du Maurier

The planet Jupiter, 1979 Unknown

The Nightingale's Song to to the Sick Soldier, 1854 Unknown

The Britannia Tubular Bridge, Menai Strait, Wales, c1850 Unknown

The apothecary using pestle and mortar to prepare drugs, 1823 Unknown

Telegraph wire at the Greenwich works, c1865 Unknown

Steam engine by James Watt, 1915 Anonymous

Sectional view of the Earth, showing central fire and underground canals linked to oceans, 1665 Unknown