 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
  |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 Lippershey and Jansen invent the microscope |
|
c. 1590 |
|
 | Stelluti's honey-bee
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| William Harvey discovers the circulation of the blood |
|
1628 |
|
 | Blood-letting
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit develops the mercury thermometer |
|
1714 |
|
 | Male nurse reading a thermometer
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Stephen Hales measures blood pressure in a horse |
|
1733 |
|
 | Stephen Hales measuring a horse's blood pressure
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| René Laënnec invents the stethoscope |
|
1816 |
|
 | Laënnec using his stethoscope
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Helmholtz invents ophthalmoscope |
|
1851 |
|
 | Principle of Helmholtz's ophthalmoscope
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Hypodermic syringe |
|
1853 |
|
 | Alexander Wood's hypodermic syringe
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Mendel publishes theory of inheritance |
|
1866 |
|
 | Gregor Mendel in his monastery
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Gastroscopy on sword-swallower |
|
1868 |
|
 | Examination using a rigid endoscope
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Centrifuge separates cream |
|
1883 |
|
 | Centrifuge
Wellcome Photo Library
|
|
| |
| Roentgen discovers X-rays |
|
1895 |
|
 | Roentgen's X-ray of his wife's hand
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| The Curies discover radium |
|
1898 |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
1898 |
|
 | Radiotherapy with laser beam alignment
Wellcome Photo Library
|
|
| |
| |
|
1901 |
|
 | Normal ECG at rest, 1986
Wellcome Photo Library
|
|
| |
| First intelligence test |
|
1905 |
|
 | Feeble-minded girls, New York 1890
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Fibreoptic imaging |
|
1928 |
|
 | Fibre optic gastroscopy, 1998
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Knoll and Ruska build electron microscope |
|
1931 |
|
 | Scanning electron micrograph, red blood cells,1998
Wellcome Photo Library
|
|
| |
| Hodkgin determines molecular structure of penicillin |
|
1944 |
|
 | Crystals, engraving 1802
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Brownell and Sweet build PET scanner |
|
1953 |
|
 | PET scanner, 1995
Wellcome Photo Library
|
|
| |
| DNA unravelled |
|
1953 |
|
 | Uncle Sam and John Bull knitting DNA, 1990
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Ian Donald uses ultrasound on pregnant women |
|
1955 |
|
 | Foetus at 25 weeks, 1991
Wellcome Photo Library
|
|
| |
| Maiman constructs first working laser |
|
1960 |
|
 | Laser treatment to the eye,1992
Wellcome Photo Library
|
|
| |
| EMI installs first CT scanner in British hospital |
|
1971 |
|
 | CT scanner, 1995
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Damadian produces MRI scan of a human body |
|
1977 |
|
 | MRI scanner, 1985
Wellcome Photo Library
|
|
| |
| Development of keyhole surgery |
|
c. 1985 |
|
 | Keyhole surgery, 1996
Wellcome Library, London
|
|
| |
| Human genome sequenced |
|
1999 |
|
 | Read-out from gene sequencer
Wellcome Photo Library
|
|
| |