Oxford Science Archive (page 19)

Smelting of ores (gold, silver, copper and lead), 1556 Unknown

Smallpox victim, c1890 Unknown

Smallpox Hospital, Highgate, London, c1871 Unknown

Sliding on Thin Ice, 1869 John Tenniel

Slaves working on a tobacco plantation, 1833 Anonymous

Slave labour on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, 1725 Unknown

Skeleton of Megatherium, extinct giant ground sloth, 1823 Unknown

Six early forms of bicycles and tricycles, 19th century Unknown

Six early forms of bicycle, c1870 Unknown

Sir Isaac Newton's house on the corner of Orange and St Martin's Streets, London, c1880 Unknown

Singer's special safety bicycle, c1886 (1890) Unknown

Shrimpers, c1845 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Shower of meteors (Leonids) observed over Greenwich, London, 1866 (1884) Unknown

Shovelling salt at South Durham Salt Works, 1884 Unknown

Shorthorn Bull 'Ironclad', 1875 Anonymous

Shearing, c1845 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Servants' hiring office, Berlin, Germany, 1874 Unknown

Series of observations of the planet Saturn, 1656 Unknown

Separating lead from silver or gold in a cupellation furnace, 1556 Unknown

Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880 Geoffrey Douglas Giles

Sectional view of the Earth, showing central fire and volcanoes, 1665 Unknown

Sectional view of lead chambers for large-scale production of sulphuric acid, 1870 Unknown

Sectional view of Gay-Lussac's lead chambers and absorption towers, 1870 Unknown

Sectional view of a telegraph tower for Claude Chappe's semaphore, 1792, (c1870) Unknown

Seamen hauling a clinker-built dinghy up onto the shore, 1821 Unknown

Scene from Marco Polo's Book of Marvels..., early 15th century Master of Boucicaut

Scene from Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, 1865 Unknown

Saul and the Witch of Endor, 1792 Unknown

Satellite photograph of Great Namaland, Namibia, 1972 Unknown

Sandblasting the joints of a bicycle frame, France, 1896 Unknown

Sanctorius' clinical 'thermometer', 1612 Unknown

Samuel Wilberforce, English prelate, 1873 Unknown

Samuel Wilberforce, English churchman, 1870 Unknown

Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, 1860 Unknown

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American artist and inventor, 1896 Unknown

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American artist and inventor, 1873 Unknown