Historic Scientific Diagrams

Illustrations depicting historical scientific concepts including magnetic fields, optics, and garden designs with detailed engravings.

Simple vertical section hands to understand the manoeuvre, vintage engraving. Simple vertical section hands to understand the manoeuvre, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10674035
Simple vertical section hands to understand the manoeuvre, vintage engraving. Simple vertical section hands to understand the manoeuvre, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10674035
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Reuben Jasper Spalding's (1889) method of quick, direct transport; an electrically driven ornithoper. From Der Stein der Weisen, (ca 1895).
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Illustration showing Reuben Jasper Spalding's (1889) method of quick, direct transport - an electrically driven ornithopter. 1896
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separation of light into a spectrum. As light passes through a prism, the bounding surfaces being non-parallel, the bend of the rays at emergence is added to that at incidence and the colours of white light are spread out into a fan. At the top are the invisible infra-red rays, next the visible spectrum from red to violet, and then the invisible ultra-violet rays.
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Illustration showing Henry Maudslay's slide rest, for attaching to a lathe. London, 1833
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.Breaking strength / lighting force.
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Sirex spectrum, vintage engraving. Sirex spectrum, vintage engraved illustration. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10648022
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Diagrams of the different toilet bowls and the flushing mechanisms
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Shadow cross tube, a form of electron tube, invented by the physicist Sir William Crookes in 1879 and therefore also called Crookes tube. It is used f...
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Patent Drawing for a See Saw
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Anatomic drawing of human head
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Type of steelyard used in Roman times, showing Arithmetical Proportions. From Robert Fludd Utriusque cosmi...historia. Oppenheim, 1617-19.
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The horoscope of Wallenstein, preserved at the Imperial gallery of Vienna, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1841.
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Hospice for Incurable Ivry sur Seine, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1876.
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Each year Huningue is dispatched millions of eggs of salmon, trout, etc artificially fertilized, vintage engraved illustration. From Zoology Elements from Paul Gervais.
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Hospice for Incurable Ivry sur Seine, vintage engraving. Hospice for Incurable Ivry sur Seine, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1876. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679804
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Science of cooking. Conceptual image with sketches on white background
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Illustration showing the general lines of the hand. The lines are created by the movement of the hand and joints. Dated between 1617-1619
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Finding the angular distance between two edges of a wood using a cross-staff, 1617-1619. Artist: Unknown
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Magnetic current of a person
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Concave lens with arrows showing the divergence of rays of light.
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Diagram illustrating the effect of refraction. Dated 19th Century
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James Clerk Maxwell's (1831-1879) apparatus for the comparison of electrostatic and electromagnetic units. From JEH Gordon A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, London, 1880
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.Varal lighting of a transparent reflector between objective and samples.
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Collodium photograph by Frana Jesenko showing ears of Bieler's noble wheat, Petkuser rye, and their F1 hybrid generation, mounted on a box.
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An engraving depicting Reuben Jasper Spalding's method of quick direct transport - an electrically driven ornithopter. Dated 19th century
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A830519 U12G LOS MODELS-ARTIST'S CONCEPTION CHARLES JR GULLICK (Project Engineer) MAY 6 83 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/6/1983 ARTIST'S CONCEPTION; DIAGRAMS; DRAWINGS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; G-TUNNEL; LOS MODELS ARTIST CONCEPTION; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; LOS MODELS-ARTIST'S CONCEPTION historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.stereoscopic consideration with increasing base length (telationeryoscopy).
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Elementos de Matematica' (Elements of Mathematics), by the Spanish architect and mathematician of The Enlightenment Benito Bails (1730-1797). Figures with different calculations. Volume VI, which is about elements of optics. Published in Madrid, 1781.
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Morse electric printing telegraph, c1882. Artist: Unknown
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Arab map for use by Egyptians, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1847.
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A woodcut engraving depicting John Canton's method of magnetising bars of steel. John Canton (1718-1772) a British physicist. Dated 18th century
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An engraving depicting Father Timothy's clepsydra which was capable of running for a month before it needed 'rewinding'. Drum, E, contained distilled water in communicating cells, so arranged that they regulate the fall of the drum. Dated 19th century
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Drawing for an Electric Lamp
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Leonardo da Vinci - design for an Archimedian screw helicopter
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Roman Surveying Instruments. undefined.
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Dubroni camera invented in 1886 by engineer Fetter. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886
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A88518 U12G DYNAMIC GROUT STUDY POST-TEST DIAGNOSTIC DRAWINGS CARL SMITH (PROJECT ENGINEER) MAY 3 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/3/1988 DIAGRAMS; DRAWINGS; DYNAMIC GROUT STUDY; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; POST-TEST DIAGNOSTIC DRAWINGS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; U12G DYNAMIC GROUT STUDY historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Illustration showing mechanism inside the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York designed and built by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869) and his son Washington Augustus Roebling (1837-1926): Iron shoe (top) round which cables were passed at the anchorage of the bridge.
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Engraving depicting a drain covered in grass. Top turf a) removed with care. Section of earth removed at b) and turf replaced. Dated 19th Century
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design for a pneumatic organ, from 'Pneumatics', by HERO OF ALEXANDRIA
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.ton photography according to the transversal procedure.
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Engraving depicting an organ by the Hero of Alexandria, driven by a small windmill (left). When the wind blew the piston moved up and down in the cylinder and the sound of a flute was produced. Dated 19th century
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Orbital Workshop Sleep Compartment
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Diagram of the layers of a Roman road with a wooden foundation used in damp areas, drawing
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.Scehmatic image of Lehman's quintaking apparatus with optical smoothing. (Tidlupp with rotating mirror drum T.L Lens. BB image window. R plans mirror) .Bäckström, Helmer. Photographic manual. Other revised edition. Nature and Culture. Stockholm. 1948. p. 1374.
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B742019 blank DISASSEMBLED GAUGE CHARLES GULLICK JR. (Project Engineer) JUN 18 74EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 6/18/1974 DISASSEMBLED GAUGE; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; GAUGES, PRESSURE; GULICK, CHARLES; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PARTS & COMPONENTS (EXC BLDGS); TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958. Flying Kakadua. Series photograph performed by Muybridge.
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Artwork: "Booster Charges", Artist: Charles Waterhouse. Country: Unknown
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S93-33258 (15 Mar 1993) --- An optical schematic diagram of one of the four channels of the Wide FieldPlanetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2) shows the path taken by beams from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) before an image is formed at the camera's charge-coupled devices. A team of NASA astronauts will pay a visit to the HST later this year, carrying with them the new WF/PC-2 to replace the one currently on the HST. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California has been working on the replacement system for several months. See NASA photo S93-33257 for a close-up view of tiny articulating mirrors designed to realign incoming light in order to make certain the beams fall precisely in the middle of the secondary mirrors.
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'Diagram of a Fuchsia flower, showing the mechanism employed to produce seeds', c1934. Artist: Unknown.
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Engraving depicting Hervé's method of suspending the basket of a balloon. Dated 20th Century
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Illustration showing Deprez's electric punch, 1890
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Patent for Edison's Kinetoscope Camera, the Kinetograph
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horticultural propagation, by Serpentine Layering, 1912. This method of propagation is basically a modification of ordinary layering and is done with plants possessing long stems. Climbing plants are particularly suited to this method of propagation.
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Engraving depicting an effective mole trap. Dated 19th Century
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Old model of the absolute barometer by Hans and Hermary. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886
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Engraving of a Trotman's anchor, a device used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent a craft from drifting away. Dated 19th Century
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Philips' Carriage Spring, Industrial America - Invention
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Apollo Command Module Compartment Orientation in Russian