Images

The Ricci Hydria, showing Hebe bringing Heracles to Olympus from earth upon his apotheosis, c. 530 BCE. National Etruscan Museum, Rome.

Portrait of Anna Pitt as Hebe, oil on canvas by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1792. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

An 1854 diagram of the steam hammer invented by James Nasmyth (1808-1890) in 1839. The hammer used steam power to precision drop a weight which bent metal to specification. (From Cyclopædia of useful arts, mechanical and chemical, manufactures...

A map showing the railway network in England and Wales in 1898. From Pitman's Commercial Geography of the World, London, 1898. (British Library, London)

Gold bees of King Childeric I (r. c. 458-481). The head and thorax are gold, the wings are encrusted with garnets. On the reverse, a clip. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

A copy of the signet ring found in the tomb of King Childeric I (c. 458-481), which bears his likeness. The original was lost in 1831 when the treasure from Childeric's tomb was stolen.

King Childeric I of the Franks and his wife, Queen Basina. Oil on canvas painting by Charles Moench, 1822.

Portrait of Frankish King Childeric I as imagined by Jean Dassier, 1720.

A working replica of the Iron Duke locomotive class of steam trains. designed for use on the Great Western Railway lines from the mid-19th century. (Great Western Society's Didcot Railway Centre)

A replica of the North Star locomotive, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59) for the Great Western Railway, England. The North Star class ran from 1838. (Swindon Steam Museum)