Title page from Vitruvius' book on architecture, 1548.

Welsh miner in a television broadcast, 19 May 1938.

French 120-gun warship, c 1793-1815.

Workers at Perivale Philco radio factory, London, 31 August 1936.

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane, 1919.

John Logie Baird John Logie Baird (1888-1946), television pioneer, 20 December 1940.

Hetton Colliery, Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, c 1822.

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane, 1919.

Television broadcast on beekeeping, 9 June 1938.

Nicostrata holding a hornbook and key, 1535.

'Representation of the proces for making tar in the forests of Sweden', 1819.

A selection of early draw tube refracting telescopes, early 18th century.