EditorialPlate, ca. 1760, Chinese, for British market, Hard-paste porcelain, Diameter: 9 in. (22.9 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain-Export, The Oxford botanical garden was founded by Henry Danvers, Early of Danby, in 1632 (1573?1644). It was situated south of Magdalen c...
EditorialFlora, crowned with a garden of flowers, offering floral tributes to three figures - Botany (shown holding an alembic), Physics (who is looking through a magnifying glass) and Pomona (who holds a spade and basket of fruit). Handcoloured copperplate eng...
EditorialRontgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923). German physicist. Discovered Roentgen rays or X-ray (1895). In 1901 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
EditorialPhysics. Physics in Pictures. The principal natural phenomena and appliances described and illustrated by thirty coloured plates, for ocular instruction in schools and families Translated by A. H. Keane. E. Stanford: London, 1882. Source: 1824.c.16, pl...
EditorialPlate, ca. 1760, Chinese, for British market, Hard-paste porcelain, Diameter: 9 in. (22.9 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain-Export, The Oxford botanical garden was founded by Henry Danvers, Early of Danby, in 1632 (1573?1644). It was situated south of Magdalen c...
EditorialFlora, crowned with a garden of flowers, offering floral tributes to three figures - Botany (shown holding an alembic), Physics (who is looking through a magnifying glass) and Pomona (who holds a spade and basket of fruit). Handcoloured copperplate eng...
EditorialHeadstone of Giuseppe Belli (1791-1860). Italian physicist and mathematician. Carrara marble. Relief depicting a portrait of Belli inside a medallion with some instruments relating to physics. University of Pavia. Italy.
EditorialGuglielmo Marconi (1874-1937). Italian physicist. He managed the first radio transmission between France and Britain. Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909. Engraving at "L'Illustration", 1897.
EditorialRontgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923). German physicist. Discovered Roentgen rays or X-ray (1895). In 1901 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Editorial0270001516 Marconi's first tuned transmitter, 1897. Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian physicist and inventor, sent the first radio signals across the Atlantic using this experimental tuned transmitter. He later developed short-wave radio equipment, and est...