Historical Scientific Equipment

Images of vintage scientific equipment including a rocket model, a telescope, and a cyclotron, showcasing early advancements in technology and aeronautics.

60-INCH TELESCOPE UNIVERSAL SPECTROGRAPH IN SHOP.
60-INCH TELESCOPE UNIVERSAL SPECTROGRAPH IN SHOP.
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B732302 ELY NEVADA SEISMIC STATION LEO BRADY (Project Engineer) SEP 13 73 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 9/13/1973 BRADY, LEO F; DIRT (SOIL); EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; ELY, NEVADA; HOLES (IN THE GROUND); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR TESTING; RECOVERY; SEISMIC; SEISMIC IMAGE; SEISMIC MONITORING; SEISMIC SENSORS; SEISMOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; SEISMOLOGICAL STATIONS; SEISMOLOGY CAVE; SEISMOMETER; TEST SITES; TUNNEL TEST; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; ELY NEVADA 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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Polyester Sonar Dôme from the oceanographic research vessel Hr.Ms. Tydeman (A 906) from the polyesterwerkplaats on the Rijkswerf (RW) in 1975.
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Echo Satellite
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Paris Laboratory Makes Penecillin Crystals Laboratory Roussel. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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An invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre. A circle of electric lamps is suspended over the operating table while the image is projected by a series of lenses onto a translucent screen. Date: 1921
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Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Laboratories, resistance model. 1968
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Analysts at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory take data readings from rows of manometers in the basement of the 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Manometers were mercury-filled glass tubes that indicated different pressure levels in the test section. Manometers look and function very similarly to thermometers. Pressure sensing instruments were installed on the test article inside the wind tunnel or other test facility. Each test could have dozens of such instruments installed and connected to a remotely located manometer tube. The mercury inside the manometer rose and fell with the pressure levels. The dark mercury can be seen at different levels within the tubes. Since the pressure readings were dynamic, it was necessary to note the levels at given points during the test. This was done using both female computers and photography. A camera is seen on a stand to the right in this photograph.
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Model of a sema -form.
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Inflight view of Astronaut Neil Armstrong flying the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV) at EAFB. EAFB, Houston, TX
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Technicians discuss the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellite, on a test stand in the Air Force Systems Command. Country: Unknown
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A model of reactor for the production of nuclear energy presented at the Geneva Atom Conference.
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Modified Bell X-1 model pioneered variable-sweep studies in 1947. Photograph published in Sixty Years of Aeronautical Research 1917-1977 By David A. Anderton. A NASA publication, page 52.
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Device for in situ measurement of the permeability of a bituminous mixture.
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S72-38463 (19 May 1972) --- In an isolated area of the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory, geologists Don Morrison (left) and Fred Horz flank University of Texas geologist/professor William (Bill) Muehlberger as the three look at a "special" rock brought back from the moon recently by the Apollo 16 astronauts. Lunar sample 61016, better known as "Big Muley," is a large breccia sample, the largest moon rock returned by any Apollo crew, which is named after Muehlberger, the Apollo 16 field geology team leader.
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A760230 U4A STRAIT SLIFER INSTALATION A JOHN BROUILLARD FEB 24 76EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/24/1976 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; FRAMES; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SLIFER INSTALLATION; STRAIT; STRAIT TEST; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPON TESTS; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; SLIFER INSTALATION 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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Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator. Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. It was a complex project that cost nearly $2 million dollars. James Hansen wrote: "This simulator was designed to provide a pilot with a detailed visual encounter with the lunar surface; the machine consisted primarily of a cockpit, a closed-circuit TV system, and four large murals or scale models representing portions of the lunar surface as seen from various altitudes. The pilot in the cockpit moved along a track past these murals which would accustom him to the visual cues for controlling a spacecraft in the vicinity of the moon. Unfortunately, such a simulation--although great fun and quite aesthetic--was not helpful because flight in lunar orbit posed no special problems other than the rendezvous with the LEM, which
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GROUP PHOTO OF ATTENDEES OF AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING, IN FRONT OF 100-INCH TELESCOPE DOME.
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Collection of ancient chemistry and alchemy utensils at the National Germanic Museum of Nuremberg, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Large Lighthouse Lens. This item consists of a photograph of an individual illuminated by the light of a large lighthouse lens.
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The Electrolux laboratory. Cabinet R3, Apparatus 50.
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Spaces Tromp, 1978.
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An examiner in the FBI Laboratory compares a plaster cast of a shoe print against the reference collection of rubber heels in order to make an identification, Washington, DC, 10/16/1948. (Photo by FBI/GG Vintage Images)
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T108 Placement of SS 10. Altair (depicted - name)
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S73-33161 (24 Aug. 1973) --- Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, Skylab 3 pilot, hooks up a 23-foot, two-inch connecting cable for the rate gyro six pack during extravehicular activity (EVA) on Aug. 24, 1973, as seen in this photographic reproduction taken from a color television transmission made by a TV camera aboard the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. The rate gyros were mounted inside the Multiple Docking Adapter opposite the Apollo Telescope Mount control and display console.
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S61-02889 (1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom approaches his Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) launch vehicle to begin his mission. To the left of the view is an emergency shower stall, to the right is the elevator which will take Grissom to the capsule.
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Engraving Of Thomas Edison'S Lab With Piano Phonograph Pipe Organ & Other Misc. Inventions
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Underwater Fishing. 1930-40
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Atomic Energy in France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Robert Goddard with Tube
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Photograph of a model of satellite U.K.1 which launched into space in 1962. Dated 20th century
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Components of the Mercury spacesuit included gloves, boots and a helmet.
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Automatic dishwasher, circa 1950
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Some of the former Apollo program astronauts tour the new Apollo/Saturn V Center (ASVC) at KSC prior to the gala grand opening ceremony for the facility that was held Jan. 8, 1997. The astronauts were invited to participate in the event, which also featured NASA Administrator Dan Goldin and KSC Director Jay Honeycutt. Apollo 10 Lunar Module Pilot and Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Apollo 9 Lunar Module Pilot Russell L. Schweickart (second from right), are both pointing at the KSC Apollo/Saturn V rocket inside the building as they talk to other guests on the tour. The ASVC also features several other Apollo program spacecraft components, multimedia presentations and a simulated Apollo/Saturn V liftoff. The facility will be a part of the KSC bus tour that embarks from the KSC Visitor Center
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Canister's doors open in the SSPF, October 21, 2008
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PAINTING THE 60-INCH TELESCOPE DOME.
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S72-37259 (November 1972) --- The Geophone Module and Cable Reels of the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment (S-203), a component of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package which will be carried on the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission. LSPE components are four geophones similar to those used in an earlier active seismic experiment, an electronics package in the ALSEP central station, and eight explosive packages which will be deployed during the geology traverse. The four geophones will be placed one in the center and one at each corner of a 90-meter equilateral triangle. Explosive charges placed on the surface will generate seismic waves of varying strengths to provide data on the structural profile of the landing site. After the charges have been fired by ground command, the experiment will settle down into a passive listening mode, detecting moonquakes, meteorite impacts and the thump caused by the Lunar Module ascent stage impact.
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Anefo photo collection. Memorial atomic bomb Hiroshima; Artist Lee Waisler inflatable atom cloud. August 6, 1985. Hiroshima
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Women Adequately Filling Posts In NACA Laboratory: Nearly 200 women are employed at the Langley Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in a limited capacity as mechanicsÕ helpers and minor laboratory aids on the jobs formerly handled by men, according to E.H. Derring, of the Aerodynamics Division. Many phases of the operations of various wind tunnels at the laboratory are now handled by women with experienced male supervision. Mr. Derring said, pointing out that the reading of the data indicated on wind tunnel instruments during a test is done in a large measure by women. In addition to reading the instruments and computing and integrating engineering test data obtained from tunnel investigations, the minor laboratory aides assist in the preparation of aircraft models preliminary to testing. Women employees who will serve in the Aerodynamics Division of the Laboratory attend an orientation class for two weeks, during which they receive instruction on phases
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Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of MA-6 on February 20, 1961 and became the first American who orbited the Earth. The MA-6 mission was the first manned orbital flight boosted by the Mercury-Atlas vehicle, a modified Atlas ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), lasted for five hours, and orbited the Earth three times.
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International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden, 1911, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, exhibition with laboratory samples and diagrams. Photograph by Martin Herzfeld in 1911, Saxony, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an 18th or 19th century original, Europe
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DIPLODOCUS skeleton presented by Andrew Carnegie to the Jardin des Plantes, Paris
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In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), workers remove the protective covering from a part of payload flight hardware for the third Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission (SM-3A). The hardware will undergo final testing and integration of payload elements in the PHSF. Mission STS-103 is a "call-up" mission which is being planned due to the need to replace portions of the Hubble's pointing system, the gyros, which have begun to fail. Although Hubble is operating normally and conducting its scientific observations, only three of its six gyroscopes are working properly. The gyroscopes allow the telescope to point at stars, galaxies and planets. The STS-103 crew will not only replace gyroscopes, it will also replace a Fine Guidance Sensor and an older computer with a new enhanced model, an older data tape recorder with a solid state digital recorder, a failed spare transmitter with a new one, and degraded insulation on the telescope with new thermal insulation. The crew will
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View of STS Discovery
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This photograph shows a group of officials standing before a Mercury-Redstone booster at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Among those in the photograph are astronauts James Lovell, Walter Schirra, and Gus Grissom. Also pictured is Joachim Kuettner who managed responsibilities of MSFC's Mercury-Redstone program.
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Picture from Atomarium at the Technical Museum.
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The Electrolux laboratory. R3B Cabinet Apparat Type 51.
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POGO is a device that uses cables connected to the ceiling to suspend an astronaut. POGO supports five-sixths of a person's weight; it mimics the one-sixth gravity of the moon. An astronaut walking around on POGO has the sensation of walking on the moon. POGO has been around since the Apollo days - in fact, the device gets its name from the way Apollo astronauts tended to bounce when suspended from it. The real name for POGO is the Partial Gravity Simulator.
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S48-E-007 (12 Sept 1991) --- Astronaut James F. Buchli, mission specialist, catches snack crackers as they float in the weightless environment of the earth-orbiting Discovery. This image was transmitted by the Electronic Still Camera, Development Test Objective (DTO) 648. The ESC is making its initial appearance on a Space Shuttle flight. Electronic still photography is a new technology that enables a camera to electronically capture and digitize an image with resolution approaching film quality. The digital image is stored on removable hard disks or small optical disks, and can be converted to a format suitable for downlink transmission or enhanced using image processing software. The Electronic Still Camera (ESC) was developed by the Man- Systems Division at the Johnson Space Center and is the first model in a planned evolutionary development leading to a family of high-resolution digital imaging devices. H. Don Yeates, JSC's Man-Systems Division, is program manager for the ESC
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Lunar Landing Testing at NASA Langley. Lunar Landing Testing at NASA Langley. A simulated environment that contributed in a significant way to the success of Apollo project was the Lunar Landing Research Facility, an imposing 250 foot high, 400 foot long gantry structure that became operational in 1965. Published in the book "Space Flight Revolution" NASA SP-4308 pg. 376
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Brighter Worlds Ahead - A British contribution to a brighter world is this Georama translucent plastic globe to be exhibited at St. Erik's Fair, the great annual Northern trade fair, Which opens at Stockholm, Sweden, next week. These extremely accurate globes are illuminated internally from the normal lighting circuit and have an illuminated meridian band engraved in degrees; the whole effect, when alight, being both beautiful and practical. For export, the globes can be printed in many languages, including Arabic. August 17, 1949. (Photo by Reuterphoto)
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Astrophysics Institute, Bill Curtis, Fulbright Student. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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The Soviet Station on the North Pole - Magnitologist Eugene Fyodorov, one of the four winter-dwellers on the drifting ice-floe taking down the indications of the meteorological instruments. June 1, 1937. (Photo by Soyuzphoto).
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S70-34857 (13 April 1970) --- A telescopic photograph showing the Apollo 13 spacecraft in trans-lunar trajectory in the distant sky. Arrows point to the spacecraft, to the oxygen cloud, and to the expended Saturn V third stage. Apollo 13 was tracked at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) using a 16 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with an IO television camera with an S-20 type IO tube, mounted in place of the eyepiece. The TV camera information is stored first on a data disc and played back on a viewing monitor from which this photograph was taken.
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The Cassini spacecraft, with its attached Huygens probe, is lowered from Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station for its return trip to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF). Damage to thermal insulation was discovered inside Huygens from an abnormally high flow of conditioned air. Further internal inspection, insulation repair and a cleaning of the probe are now required. Mission managers are targeting a mid-October launch date after Cassini returns to the pad and is once again placed atop its Titan IVB expendable launch vehicle. Cassini will explore the Saturnian system, including the planets rings, while the Huygens probe will explore the moon Titan
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Vehicle for Lunar Landing Research Facility at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.
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Image of a Haltseinlantaarn from the N.S.
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Uranium alloy hemishells, as cupped inside surfaces , Ordnance industry, Armories, Molds Shaping tools, Shells Ammunition. Records of U.S. Army Operational