Historical Scientific Experiments

Archival footage showing scientists conducting experiments and research in early to mid-20th-century labs, capturing the essence of scientific inquiry.

Close-up man trying to open fuming test tube
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Miscellaneous Charts, Space Capsule
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Young people working in a chemistry lab (EV006670_H)
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S85-40510 & S85-40511 (23 Sept. 1985) --- Two women representing the Teacher-in-Space Project undergo training in preparation for the 51-L mission in two photographs made in the Johnson Space Centers mission simulation and training facility. In S85-40510, Sharon Christa McAuliffe (second right), prime crew member; and Barbara R. Morgan (second left), backup, are briefed in the shuttle mission simulators instruction station by Jerry Swain, right, instruction team leader. Others pictured are Michelle Brekke (far left) of the payload specialists office and Patricia A. Lawson (lower left foreground). Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka, in S85-40511, assists Morgan with a head set as the two trainees are familiarized with launch and entry stations in the motion base shuttle mission simulator (SMS). The citizen observer (McAuliffe) is scheduled to be seated on the middeck. This picture, however, was taken at the mission specialists station on the flight deck.
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S65-63712 (4-18 Dec. 1965) --- Astronaut Frank Borman, Gemini-7 command pilot, is seen performing visual acuity tests in space.
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Rugles, Eure. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Mining gas interferometer "Gasi". For measuring the air in mines. A double beam interferometer.
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A delegation of scientists from the USSR visited Germany to exhibit space technology and moon dust in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund on 03. 06. 1973. Police took care of the guests and the moon dust, as it was not yet known at the time whether security was in danger, Germany, Europe
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Portrait of Davis
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Anefo photo collection. Recording of the moon by Surveyor from TV. June 2, 1966
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JERRY LEWIS in THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963), directed by JERRY LEWIS.
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Col. Theodore Roosevelt at a ceremony at National Museum, c. 1914-1917. Now called the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History it holds Roosevelt's East African flora and fauna specimens collected during the SmithsonianRoosevelt African Expedition of 1909-10 (BSLOC_2017_8_69)
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Engraving depicting electric arc lights being used in a photographer's studio
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S72-41855 (15 June 1972) --- Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test (SMEAT) commander, simulates the preparation of a Skylab meal. Crippen is a member of a three-man crew who will spend up to 56 days in the Crew Systems Division's 20-foot altitude chamber at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) beginning in mid-July to obtain medical data and evaluate medical experiment equipment for Skylab. The two crew members not shown in this view are astronauts Karol J. Bobko, SMEAT pilot, and Dr. William E. Thornton, SMEAT science pilot.
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Try giant impulses directed with a telescope on the ascending smoke from a chimney. The transmitted laser beam is reflected by the smoke particles that are captured as echo of a photodiode.
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A860302 U12N MIDDLE NOTE H.E. WRAP STALLER, G E FEB 19 86 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/19/1986 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; H.E. WRAP; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MIDDLE NOTE NUCLEAR TEST; MIDDLE NOTE TEST; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; STALLER, G E; TEST SITES; TESTING; TUNNEL TEST; U12N MIDDLE NOTE; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPON EFFECTS; WEAPONS RELATED; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; WRAP & ASSEMBLY; U12N MIDDLE NOTE - H.E. WRAP 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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The Morse telegraphic apparatus was officially adopted as the standard for European telegraphy in 1851
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APOLLO STABILITY TEST IN THE 8X6 FOOT WIND TUNNEL - MODEL IS SHOWN WITH MODULE TOWER AND CANARDS
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Jungfraujoch, Switzerland: c. 1927 Astronomers at work at the outdoor observatory at 11,500 above sea level in the Bernese Oberland in the Swiss Alps.
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Gaudí's workshop in the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, 1905.
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Amperometer (aka ammeter) to measure electric current in Amperes units. Ammeter to measure electric current
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Brains That Bounce And Skeletons To Order -- Plastic babies - used in the birth demonstration models. May 14, 1953. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Michael Yonemitsu, X-Ray Specialist, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, USA, Ansel Adams, Manzanar War Relocation Center Collection, 1943
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Berthollet visiting Lavoisier at the Sorbonne laboratory, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Ford's two girls, Kerry (above) and Suzanne, call any hieroglyphics "Daddy's chemicals," and catch wogs to inspect under his microscope. March 12, 1952.
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1930'ssafe experiment with static electricity