Historical Scientific Experiments

A series of black-and-white clips showcasing scientific experiments, including space travel tests and innovations in materials and engineering from various decades.

Close-up of air from air conditioner blowing ribbons

Anefo photo collection. Recording of the moon by Surveyor from TV. June 2, 1966

Atomic energy was imagined to have miraculous curing power when introduced in the 1940s. An illustration from a 1947 COLLIER'S magazine in depicted a recovered paraplegic smiling from a mushroom cloud, his abandoned wheelchair in the background.

A pocket radiac radiation detector sits on a table with a camera recording its readings during a test in the X-ray testing lab. Base: Fort Monmouth State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

$Employees of the Chemical Warfare Service are seen analyzing war gas by liquification and fractionation at the laboratories of the Bureau of Mines in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during World War I. This work is conducted at low temperatures and pressures. The photograph was taken in November 1918.$

Vintage Photograph. Adler Planetarium audience watching the planetarium instrument.

Vintage photograph. A 22 caliber bullet smashed through a glass jar, then broken electrical conductor setting off a high-speed photo light which illuminated the section for two millionth of a second

2000s CLOSE-UP WOMAN LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULAR RED ORANGE FILTER EFFECT SPY INFRARED SYMBOLIC FACE HEAD MYSTERY DANGER

Misc. Anatomy - Eyes. March 01, 1950.

Blood Drying Unit- Processing Blood in the Laboratory, Cambridge, England, UK, 1943 Bottles of frozen plasma are placed into the vacuum drying chamber at a laboratory at Cambridge University. The tin containers are wound with electric heating wires.

Aerosol Particle Analyzer

undefined. 1913 - 1921. NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle, WA). Negative. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Fisheries. Division of Alaska Fisheries. 1913-7/1/1939. Pribilof Islands Glass Plate Negatives

Man Testing New Sand-Blasting Mask, Washington DC, USA, circa 1936

Photograph of a LASER FOR SPACE Gas-filled electronic device whose first job will be to greatly sharpen the accuracy of a new space tracking radar is fired up by an engineer at Sperry Rand's Electronic Tube Division laboratories in Great Neck, N. Y. Called a helium-neon laser

This albumin photograph shows the Italian department at the 1878 World Exhibition in Paris, including exhibits, interior layout, and visitors.

The Marshall Space Flight Center was activated on July 1, 1960 as a part of NASA, which had been established on October 1, 1958 by Congressional passage of the National Aeronautics and Space Act. The nucleus of NASA was the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics later named the National Advisory Committee for Aeronauts (NACA). The NACA was founded in 1915 to study the problems of flight and to recommend practical solutions to basic aircraft design and construction problems. NACA's wind turnels and other research facilities made NACA technical reports the basis for aviation progress for more than 40 years.

Russia, a dog and an astronaut enter a pressure chamber for training, 1959.

National Physical Laboratory- Science and Technology in Wartime, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK, 1944 In the Metrology Division of the National Physical Laboratory, a female scientist uses special apparatus , called a gauge interferometer, to measure the length of light in wave-lengths.

Plastic protective outfit filled with compressed air. It was designed to protect British Atomic energy workers against radioactive dust and particles. Oct. 21, 1954.

Researcher John Sloop briefs visitors on his latest rocket engine research during the 1947 Inspection at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The NACA had been hosting annual Aircraft Engineering Conferences, better known as Inspections, since 1926. Individuals from the manufacturing industry, military, and university settings were invited to tour the NACA laboratories. There were a series of stops on the tour, mostly at test facilities, where researchers would brief the group on the latest efforts in their particular field. The Inspections grew in size and scope over the years and by the mid-1940s required multiple days. The three-day 1947 Inspection was the first time the event was held at NACA Lewis. Over 800 scientists, industrialists, and military leaders attended the three-day event. Talks were given at the Altitude Wind Tunnel, Four Burner Area, Engine Research Building, and other facilities. An array of topics were discussed

TITAN III in 14ft wind tunnel

Institut Pasteur, US Researchers. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Albert Einstein's study at the institute for Advance Study at Princeton University. Photo was taken after Einstein's sudden death on May 18, 1955.

176 - Space Ships (See Aviation Cards For All Named Space Ships & Vehicles Also Space Travel Etc.). March 03, 1955.

A woman lying down, showing from a three different angles. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

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Anefo photo collection. International Perfumery Fair Utrecht. "Mirror Go Lightly". August 26, 1968. Utrecht (prov.), Utrecht (city)

Photographic negative created by Max Jaffé around 1920, anonymous subject or work.

Vintage Photograph. Uranium prospector with hand held Geiger Counter to locate radioactive material by picking up the radiation electronically.

S.P. Ferguson with a machine that measures snow and hail ca. early 1900s .

Television screen showing depiction of John Glenn in the Friendship 7 space capsule, looking at the control panel during his orbit around earth on February 20, 1962 Contributor Names Trikosko, Marion S., photographer

Chester Burleigh Watts turning back the hands of a clock at the Naval Observatory in 1918 (possibly in honor of the first Daylight Savings Time) .

Television screen animation of John Glenn's Friendship 7 space capsule approaching North America, during his three orbit space flight on Feb. 20, 1962.

S61-03740 (20 July 1961) --- Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. and a technician examine the interior of the Liberty Bell 7, the capsule flown a few days later during the Mercury-Redstone 4 mission with astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom.

New Zealand Geological Society party, 22 December 1948, by Leslie Adkin.

Anefo photo collection. American astronauts on the moon; Images from TV. People on the street in the United States. July 21, 1969

The accident between the balloons Cosmos and Busley, Brussels, Belgium, photo from L'Illustration, No 3466, July 31, 1909.

Vintage Photograph. Boy wearing white dress shirt looking through hand held telescope, seen from behind

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

1920s 1930s MAN SURVEYOR WEARING HAT AND BIB OVERALL ON CONSTRUCTION SIGHT USING A LEVEL AND TELESCOPE TOOL MOUNTED ON A TRIPOD

Cartoon - White House Microscope. John Collins (1917-2007)

JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING (1982) -Original title: THE THING-, directed by JOHN CARPENTER.

The 'Vista booth', a space-age look in public telephone installations. Designed by Bell Telephone laboratories, this is one of the many exploratory designs being studied to meet telephone service demands of the future. The trail model of the Vista booth is made of an aluminium frame and flooring with a transparent plastic 'bubble dome' for maximum visibility. This type booth would be installed in a weather protected area, such as a railway concourse. The interior apparatus includes a coin box wi

Adenoma Sebaceum. Dr. Selden I. Rainforth (American, 1879 - 1960)

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