Historic Scientists in Laboratories

A collection of vintage images depicting scientists in various laboratory settings, working with equipment and liquids, showcasing early scientific exploration and experimentation.

MARIE CURIE seated in her laboratory in 1913, tells the photographer, Hurry up and finish, so I can get on with my work... Date: 1867-1934

Mr and Mrs Curie in their laboratory, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Man works with liquids in funnel, G. Hidderley (attributed to), 1900 - 1920 photograph This photo is part of an album. Netherlands photographic support gelatin silver print pharmacist, druggist, apothecary; pharmacy, drugstore, dispensing chemist

Marie Curie (1867-1935) Polish-born French physicist who, with her husband Pierre (1859-1906), centre, carried out research on radioactivity and shared the Nobel prize for physics with him and with Henri Becquerel in 1903

Dr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft and Ernest T S Walton developed the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator to artificially speed up atomic particles to high energies. Fast-moving protons made from hydrogen were directed towards a lithium target in a vacuum, and the results of this splitting of atoms observed. Date: 1932

Joseph Achille Le Bel in his laboratory. Photograph.

MARIE CURIE seated in her laboratory in 1913, tells the photographer, Hurry up and finish, so I can get on with my work... Date: 1867-1934

Professor Augusto Righi (1850-1920) preparing a lesson on atmospheric electricity at the University of Bologna, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXX, No 9, March 1, 1903.

The laboratory, the microscope room. Photography equipment. Laboratoriet, mikroskoprummet. Fotograferingsutrustning.

(L TO R): ALBERT EINSTEIN & WALTHER MAYER AT THE FOCUS OF THE 150-FOOT TOWER TELESCOPE.

United States: c. 1890 Three scientists in a laboratory peering through microscopes as several others look on.

Inventor of the bildetelegraph Arthur Korn with his assistant in his laboratory at the University of Munich, November 24, 1906, Germany, photograph from L'Illustration, No 3328, December 8, 1906.

Marconi, Dr. W.R. Whitney, and Dr. Irving Langmuir - digital file from original neg. | Library of Congress

Laboratory.

The Electrolux laboratory. Diffusion apparatus.

From the left, the US physicist Irving Langmuir and the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi at the radio station in New York, United States of America, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIX, No 31, July 30, 1922.

Bermocchi & his wireless "iconograph"

Engineer Oscar Larsson's collection at Urania Institute. Experimental table.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in his laboratory. American inventor of the phonograph and businessman.

INTERIOR OF PHYSICAL LAB ON MT. WILSON, WITH CIRCULAR TABLE IN USE.

INTERIOR OF PASADENA PHYSICAL LAB.

GEORGE HALE AT THE 30-FOOT SPECTROGRAPH OF THE 60-FOOT SOLAR TOWER TELESCOPE. (Mockup of Hale studying Zeemann effect)

Telegraph expedition at Borås Lower Station.

CURIE, Pierre (1859-1906). French physicist.; CURIE, Marie (1867-1934). French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in 1911. Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Curie in their laboratory. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

Lee DeForest, 1873-1961, half length portrait, seated with one of his inventions, facing right

Portrait of the artist.

London, England: December 1, 1924 The transmitter that sent photographs by radio from London to New York. The images were caught from the ether by a new radio receiver in the Radio Corporation of America building in NY. The sending unit has twelve vacuum tubes and is extremely compact for the complex functions it performs.

Henri Moissan, French chemist, c1883 (1903). Artist: Unknown

Kolera year (1892) in Baku. Doctors in the laboratory. The image is included in two large photo albums by director Karl Wilhelm Hagelin who worked for a long time at Nobel's oil facilities in Baku.

Research was a major activity at Beth Israel long before the 1928 move to Brookline Avenue. Here a laboratory assistant is shown working in the Pathology Laboratory circa 1920

"Dr. Reinhardt Thiessen, shown in the picture, is studying the structure of cocoanut charcoal in the Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, PA. The research aims to understand the relationship between the structure of the charcoal, both physically and grossly, and its absorption efficiency. This study is conducted as part of the investigation on cocoanut charcoal's potential applications."

Scientist using microscope in his lab

Drawing Genius Inventor Thomas A. Edison At Work In His Laboratory In Menlo Park New Jersey Usa

in their laboratory, Paris

Chemistry Lab Of A Zoological Station. Naples 1910-20

Silver gelatin photographs by Karl Alois Stefan Hillebrand showing the ocular head of an instrument at the K. k. Observatory in Vienna, dated 1901.

Sir Alexander Fleming At Ophthalmic Optical ExhibitionSir Alexander Fleming examines a microscope, one of the exhibits at the ophthalmic Optical Exhibition., after he had opened it at the Royal Horticultural Halls today.Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin today performed the opening ceremony of the Ophthalmic Optical Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminister. July 16, 1951. (Photo by Fox Photos).

Ein Arbeitstisch im chemischen Laboratorium in Leipzig, Deutschland, im Jahre 1880, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlag...

Professor Hans von Euler-Chelpin in its laboratory in Stockholm University.

10 Miles Up In A Balloon -- In a hermetically sealed cylinder hanging from a giant balloon, a Swiss scientist today began an attempt to go higher in the air than man has ever gone before. He is Prof. Auguste Piccard, member of the staff of Brussels University, and he hopes to reach a height of ten miles above the earth. He is accompanied by an assistant. The start was made soon after dawn from a field at Augsburg, Bavaria. Prof. Piccard (right) and Dr. Kipfer, his assistant in the balloon ball, testing instruments for the ascent. May 27, 1931. (Photo by Topical Press).

Photography laboratory in the Scuola del Libro, in Via Carlo Goldoni, Milan, Italy, photograph by Treves, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXI, No 33, August 14, 1904.

V 1675b.M6 and Aspöcilds taken associated with the minsveppers M6 and Aspö's minsection

Emile Berliner with the model of the first phonograph machine which he invented c. 1920

MARIE CURIE Physical Chemist In her laboratory Date: 1867-1934

Navy Scientists to Photograph Sun's Eclipse -- Above is shown the giant camera by means of which navy scientists hope to photograph the eclipse of the sun, which is expected to take place january 24th. the huge camera has been specially constructed for this test, to be made from the naval dirigible shenandoah. In the foreground is captain E.T. Pollock, superintendent of the U.S. Naval observatory, who is to be in charge of the tests. At the camera is shown the navy photographer. George H. Peters

Mr. Sterner and Mr. Gettens making microscopic examination , Paints & varnishes, Research, Processes & techniques, Microscopes, Chemists, Gettens, Rutherford J. Rutherford John. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

The electrolux laboratory. Staff: The engineers B. von Platen and C. Munters.

Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955), German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, at Mount Wilson Observatory, United States, examining the spectrograph at base of 150-foot tower telescope

10 Miles Up In A Balloon -- Prof. Piccard testing the gas containers with which the balloon is filled. In a hermetically sealed cylinder hanging from a giant balloon, a Swiss scientist today began an attempt to go higher in the air than man has ever gone before. He is Prof. Auguste Piccard, member of the staff of Brussels University, and he hopes to reach a height of ten miles above the earth. He is accompanied by an assistant. The start was made soon after dawn from a field at Augsburg, Bavaria. May 27, 1931. (Photo by Topical Press).

Pierre Curie (1859-1906) and Marie Curie (1867-1934). French physicists. Discoverers of radium in 1898. Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903.

Image depicts a formula laboratory at the School of Aerial Photography at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY during World War One. The laboratory is shown with various chemicals and equipment used for mixing formulas. The photograph was taken on March 26, 1919.

Professor Sir W. Ramsay, discoverer of the transmutation of radium to helium, describing the progress of his recent work to Professor Curie, joint-discoverer (with Madame Curie) of radium. 1903 drawing by S. Begg for THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Dec. 5, 1903, published shortly after the Curie and his wife Marie were awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.

12/31/1929. The Lumière Brothers in their Laboratory. On the left Louis, on the right Auguste.

Late 19th century work cabinet. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1890

Microscopic examination , Paints & varnishes, Research, Processes & techniques, Microscopes. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Louis Pasteur. Wood engraving by C. Baude after A. G. A. Edelfelt, 1885.

Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory in 1912, the year after she received here second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry.

palestra della nave duilio, 1930

The Belgian scientist Emile van Campenhout in his laboratory in the Congo studying malaria and diseases found in hot countries, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXVII, No 44, November 4, 1900.

Charles C. Wylie setting back clock at Naval Observatory ca. between 1918 and 1928.

Photograph of William Ramsay (1852-1916) a British chemist who discovered the Nobel Gasses and Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry. Dated 20th century

Illustration depicting Marconi's wireless telegraph being used to report international yacht races. Dated 19th century

ILUST ESP/AMER-1896-PARIS-SALA LABORATORIO DE FISICA-GRABADO. Author: Berteault.

Thomas Alva Edison standing, facing left, with one of his inventions - The Ediphone, and Edwin C. Barnes, circa 1921

(L TO R): WALTER ADAMS, EDWIN HUBBLE, & JAMES JEANS AT THE CONTROL PANEL OF THE 100-INCH TELESCOPE.

August Krogh. Photograph, 1926.

JOSEF VON FRAUNHOFER demonstrates his spectrometer at Munchen, 1814

The Flight That Failed: Dispatching Carrier Pigeons From The Balloon To "The Daily Graphic' -- an artist's fancy used in the newspaper to illustrate the flight in progress. June 15, 1940. (Photo by Schoenfeld Collection of Camera Features).

Roger Fenton, Mineral Gallery, British Museum, c. 1860, albumen print , stereograph.

JUAN ENRIQUE FABRE AND HIS SON - FRENCH ENTOMOLOGIST. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. FABRE JUAN ENRIQUE. FABRE JUAN ENRIQUE HIJO.

First public institution for disinfection in Berlin, Berlin, Germany, historical illustration, wood engraving, about 1888, Europe

A work table from the laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, in 1870 / Ein Arbeitstisch aus dem Laboratorium zu Leipzig, Deutschland, im Jahre 1870, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Alexander Graham Bell, Telephone Operation Demonstration

Image of Prof. Dr. L.S. Ornstein (professor director) in his office in the Physisch Laboratory (Bijhouwerstraat 8) of the University of Utrecht.

'General view of a chemical laboratory with a number of different furnaces on left, a bench in the centre and equipment on shelves. Engraving from ''Chemical Catechism'', London, 1834, by Samuel Parkes.'

Kitchen room. Mont Blanc observatory founded by Joseph Vallot, France, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1897

Thomas Edison Using Early Recording Phonograph

Physicist Denies He was A Communist - Dr Frank Oppenheimer, physicist who participated in the atomic bomb development, denied tonight In a formal statement an allegation of the Washington (D.C.) Times Herald that he has been a member of the Communist party. Dr. Oppenheimer Is now a University of Minnesota professor. July 12, 1947. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

'Marconi - Geb. 1874', 1934. Artist: Unknown.

Groups, By State - District of Columbia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

06/25/1919. Barcelona. The festival of the Sun. The president of the Astronomical Society of Spain and America, Dr. Comas Sola (X), surrounded by his Fellow Members at the Fabra observatory.

Moonshine still recently confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau photographed at the Treasury Department between 1921 and 1932. Man standing next to still looking at contents of glass.

CAMILLE FLAMMARION - French scientist and astronomer in his study.

ANDREW CARNEGIE (L) & GEORGE HALE IN FRONT OF THE 60-INCH TELESCOPE.

Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory, 1898 (1951). Artist: Unknown

Internal Revenue Bureau - Chemical Laboratory, Testing Wines. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Shockley - de Forest.

Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (1823-1915), French entomologist, photo by Gimpel, from L'Illustration, No 3502, April 9, 1910.

Edison Inspects His Latest Invention - An Improved Miner's Safety Lamp.Thomas A. Edison, who is approaching his 81st birthday, admiring his largest invention, an improved miner's Lamp which will do much to eliminate mine explosions. The battery for the new Lamp was perfected after more than 50,000 individual experiments. January 16, 1928. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).

Thomas Alva Edison examining a phonograph disc under a microscope, digitally edited

Albert Abraham Michelson FFRS HFRSE (December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931) was a German-born American physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science

Photograph of the Chemical Laboratory. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Vintage photograph. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American Inventor

Picture showing oblique operations.Män in workshop. Gilder

CURIE, Marie (1867-1934). French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in 1911. Painting.

Professor Arthur Korn's talk in the L'Illustration offices on the telephonic transmission experiment carried out on the Paris-Lyon-Paris line, February 1, 1907, Paris, France, photograph from L'Illustration, No 3337, February 9, 1907.

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). French chemist and bacteriologist. Study of microbes in the Pasteur Institute. Engraving.

The photographer as a chemist. Fotografen som kemist.

01/31/1921. Barcelona. In the park's greenhouse. Exhibition of the fourth contest organized by the society for the promotion of canary breeding.

Young Australian-Arranging the skeleton of a kangaroo pup al the Australian Museum. April 21, 1931.

Anatomy instruction, historical image, ca. 1929

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