Historical Scientific Imagery

A collection of vintage black-and-white images related to space exploration, experiments, and various scientific observations.

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S73-32632 (19 Aug. 1973) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Skylab 3 commander, performs acrobatics and simulated gymnastics in the dome area of the Orbital Workshop in this photographic reproduction taken from a television transmission made by a color TV camera aboard the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. Bean appears to be floating in a diving position.

Aldebaran (depicted - name).Aldebaran (depicted - name)

Tumor of legs.

The first manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 11, launched from the Kennedy Space Flight Center (KSC) in Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. Astronauts onboard included Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module (CM) pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Lunar Module (LM) pilot. The CM, Columbia”, piloted by Collins, remained in a parking orbit around the Moon while the LM, Eagle’’, carrying astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, landed on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong was the first human to ever stand on the lunar surface, followed by Aldrin. This is a reproduction of the television image that was transmitted to the world on July 20th, as Armstrong egressed the ladder to the lunar surface. The black bar running through the center of the photograph is an anomaly in the TV Ground Data System at Goldstone Tracking Station.

Fotogramm. Artist: László Moholy-Nagy (American (born Hungary), Borsod 1895-1946 Chicago, Illinois). Dimensions: 17.8 x 23.7 cm (7 x 9 5/16 in.). Date: 1922.As part of the visual and technical experimentation that characterized the Bauhaus, the German design school where he taught, Moholy-Nagy made cameraless photographs, or "photograms," by placing objects on a sheet of photographic paper and exposing it to light. He used the technique to make abstract compositions with spatial, tonal, and gestural qualities that challenged traditional modes of representation. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

V 6940. Thule (depicted - name)

T108, T109, T110 Detail of plate column.T110 Arcturus (depicted - name)

Preparations made from the chemist John Landin. (1861-1920). From radium-containing barium sulfate from 1kg. Billing akiffer. Exposition time 1 month.

Thule circulatory tank.Thule (depicted - name)

Aldebaran (depicted - name).Aldebaran (depicted - name)

Bathyscaphe Trieste.

The submarine shark propeller damage.The shark (depicted - name)

Laboratory.

The 'G' Test - Flying Officer James Fitzsimons, of Northern Ireland, is the subject in the centrifuge at Farnborough. Rate of acceleration or deceleration can be controlled manually by the subject if he feels the 'g' is getting beyond endurance.The Man -carrying ***** machine which will help solve the physiological problems of high-speed flying, was demonstrated at the R.A.F. Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough, Hampshire, today (Tuesday).The Centrifuge, most modern in Europe is used to test the effects of centrifugal acceleration, commonly known as 'g', which in high speed combat manoeuvres causes the blood to drain from the brain and sometimes results in 'black out'. May 17, 1955. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Student Alta-Aupa seen from Brisia. I. Part Image.

Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler; A water powered irrigation pump

A piece of the balloon and its ropes. Production of the pictures was made by Associate Professor John Hertzberg in 1930 in photography, Technical College.

Aldebaran (depicted - name).Aldebaran (depicted - name)

Exhibits. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

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T108, T109, T110 Detail of plate column.T110 Arcturus (depicted - name)

Project 30-65 - Operation Plumbob (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. PRISCILLA cloud: Series of 8 ground views (1 of 8). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

S71-44669 (31 July-2 Aug. 1971) --- An oblique view of the rayed crater Proclus on the lunar nearside, as photographed by the Fairchild metric camera in the SIM bay of the Apollo 15 Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit. This view is looking north. The Sea of Crisis is at upper right. Proclus, which is 28 kilometers (16.58 statute miles) in diameter, is located at 47 degrees east longitude and 16 degrees north latitude. The Marsh of Sleep is at lower left. A small portion of the Sea of Tranquility can be seen at upper left. The crater Macrobius is located at upper left. The three-inch mapping camera was one of eight lunar orbital science experiments mounted in the SIM bay.

Body of prototype of experimental unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), composed of carbon fiber parts precision milled by computer numerical controlled (CNC) milling machine

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War Rocket tracing experiment

B732229 U12E EXPERIMENT Meeks (Project Engineer) Arpil 26, 73 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/26/1973 CABLES; CABLES (NON ELECTRIC COMPANY); EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EXPERIMENTS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; EXPERIMENT historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Anefo photo collection. The American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin put foot on the moon; Photo taken from the TV. Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon. July 21, 1969

X-Ray of neck vertebrae twisted through 180 degrees. Mow notice short neck with jaw bone resting between shoulder blades.Two minutesare occupied while Laur llo swivels his head full turn. His remarkable neck vertebrae have unusual flexibility which permits half revolution of the head. June 15, 1940. (Photo by Andre La Terza Feature).;X-Ray of neck vertebrae twisted through 180 degrees. Mow notice short neck with jaw bone resting between shoulder blades.Two minutesare occupied while Laur llo swiv

B732039 U12E H.F.R. ART ARTHUR (Project Engineer) FEB 15 73 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/15/1973 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; HFR; HFR RECOVERY; HIGH FLUENCE; HIGH FLUENCE RECOVERY; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PHOTOGRAPHY, BLACK & WHITE; RECOVERY; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS & ARMAMENTS; H.F.R. historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Spiders predict fine weather by spinning webs while it is still raining. January 14, 1946.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes a look through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon to spy light and dark in the area called Adiri on Titan.

Unusual flying fish which flew onto the Jaipahi off the ***** of N.Z.It has ***** form of parasite growing through its stomach and ant the fin or wing ***** museum. August 6, 1934.

T107 Machine damage.Aldebaran (depicted name)

X-ray photography, probably the first in Sweden. The picture of Professor Palmér's left hand and the word "Signe" (Palmér's wife's name) of curved copper wires is photographed by Fil.lic. Nils Strindberg (Andrée's companion) at Stockholm College's physical institution in February in 1896.

S62-00955 (February 1962) --- This is a view of John H. Glenn Jr. ingressing the Mercury-Atlas 6 spacecraft.

Anefo photo collection. Telstar brought Start of Spaceman Walter M. Schirra. October 3, 1962

Hydrogen explosion in the Marshall Islands in the fall of 1952

B732023 U12E STRETCHED CABLE HANK KERR (Project Engineer) FEB 9 73 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/9/1973 CABLES; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; HFR; HFR RECOVERY; HIGH FLUENCE; HIGH FLUENCE RECOVERY; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PHOTOGRAPHY, BLACK & WHITE; RECOVERY; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS & ARMAMENTS; STRETCHED CABLE historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

SEM cochlea damaged by bacterial meningitis

B732066 U12E CUT CABLES/ CUTTER BAR ROBERT STINEBAUGH (Project Engineer) MAR 8 73 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/8/1973 CABLES; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; HFR; HFR RECOVERY; HIGH FLUENCE; HIGH FLUENCE RECOVERY; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; CUT CABLES/ CUTTER BAR historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

The control tower.Rise to Bridge .. Kockums AB (depicted name), shark (depicted name)

Photography of a vapor mirror before maintenance unknown

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eden project air extraction ducts

This is a rare glance at the dark side of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Light backscattered from dust particles in the comet's coma reveals a hint of surface structures. This image was taken by OSIRIS, Rosetta's scientific imaging system.

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.exampel on uranium reinforcement. For more info see: Bäckström, Helmer. Photographic manual. Nature and Culture. Stockholm. 1942. p. 517.

Electric echo sounder of the training ship submarine control Hr.Ms. Sea eagle (A 892, Ex-Batavier IV 1903), 1957.

Illustration depicting the midnight sky in the Southern Hemisphere showing the Milky Way. Looking South from Sydney. Dated 19th century

B732126 U12E H.F.R. SIDE PIPE MILLER (Project Engineer) APR 18 73 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/18/1973 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; HFR; HFR (X-RAY FLUX); HFR RECOVERY; HIGH FLUENCE RECOVERY; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PIPES; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; H.F.R. SIDE PIPE 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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Forest Insects - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951), directed by EDGAR ULMER.

S61-E-020 (7 Dec 1993) --- This close-up view of one of two Solar Arrays (SA) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was photographed with an Electronic Still Camera (ESC), and down linked to ground controllers soon afterward. Endeavour's crew captured the HST on December 4, 1993, in order to service the telescope over a period of five days. Four of the crew members will work in alternating pairs outside Endeavour's shirt sleeve environment to service the giant telescope. Electronic still photography is a relatively new technology which provides the means for a handheld camera to electronically capture and digitize an image with resolution approaching film quality. The electronic still camera has flown as an experiment on several other shuttle missions.

S73-33858 (November 1973) --- A close-up view of the feet of scientist-astronaut William E. Thornton as he demonstrates the use of a treadmill-like exercise device which was developed for maintaining the leg and back muscles of the Skylab 4 crewman. Thornton is in the Skylab Orbital Workshop simulator in Building 5 at the Johnson Space Center. The Skylab 2 and Skylab 3 astronauts had no exercise device onboard capable of adequately maintaining their leg and back muscles. The treadmill device consists of a Teflon-coated aluminum plate or sheet bolted to the floor of the Skylab Orbital Workshop. The crewmen will wear the bicycle ergometer harness while exercising. Bungee cords attached to the floor and to the harness will supply the downward pressure or force for the back and leg muscles. The astronaut's feet will slide over the Teflon-coated plate as he marches in place.

S65-42454 (February 1962) --- Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. inside the Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) during training at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Forms of Torture. March 18, 1953. (Photo by Saturday Magazine).

Project 19 - Operation Sandstone (Enewatak) Test Activities. Man's Hands Being Re-Monitored for Radiation Decontamination. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

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T108, T109, T110 Detail of plate column.T110 Arcturus (depicted - name)

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LII is a technique for measuring soot concentration. This image was taken with an ordinary 35-mm camera, these reveal soot distribution within the chimney. Principal Investigator Dr. Randall L. Vander Wal

Forest Mensuration - Tree Measurements. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

The bioreactor assembly within the flight unit.

Two illuminated display cases with various objects in a dark room; 5000 years of art from Egypt from the museums of Cairo, Alexandria and Leiden. Horizontal floating in the left vitrine is a smiling spoon exhibited.

The control tower.Bb page act.part .. Kockums AB (depicted name), shark (depicted name)

Photographs by Ernst Mach showing subjects from floor-level viewpoints, captured between 1892 and 1893, focusing on composition and perspective.

Klixon-membrane.

S66-39446 (17 June 1966) --- Movie film of the Gemini-9A and Augmented Target Docking Adapter rendezvous was shown at the Gemini-9A press conference in the MSC auditorium. Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left) and Eugene A. Cernan discussed the Gemini-9A/ATDA rendezvous mission during the film. Pictured on the screen, shows a close-up of the ATDA, described by the astronauts as an angry alligator.

X-ray of bomb. An innocent appearing square package, which did not tick or rattle, was passed under a fluoroscope. It produced an x-ray showing three batteries, side by side, a transformer and wires leading to a cap attached to a two sticks of dynamite. There was a spring lock which would complete the circuit when the lid of the box was raised. Feb. 1932.

Photograph of a piggy-back space mirror - this six-foot-diameter inflatable space structure is the prototype of a new rigidized solar collector able to serve as a satellite or space vehicle piggy-back power generating device. Dated 20th century

The Second Rover Image

A National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) photographer films the test of a ramjet engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. The laboratory had an arsenal of facilities to test the engines and their components, and immersed itself in the study of turbojet and ramjet engines during the mid-1940s. Combustion, fuel injection, flameouts, and performance at high altitudes were of particular interest to researchers. They devised elaborate schemes to instrument the engines in order to record temperature, pressure, and other data. Many of the tests were also filmed so Lewis researchers could visually review the combustion performance along with the data. The photographer in this image was using high-speed film to document a thrust augmentation study at Lewis Jet Static Propulsion Laboratory. The ramjet in this photograph was equipped with a special afterburner as part of a general effort to improve engine performance. Lewis Photo Lab was established in 1942. The staff was e

WS-110A Brown Bomber in Unitary Wind Tunnel Low Mach Number Test

Anefo photo collection. Desiderius Erasmus. October 15, 1973

Miscellaneous Charts, space capsule,

Anefo photo collection. Testing for launch of Apollo II with Aldrin, Collins and Armstrong, USA: No. 749, 750: Aldrin with a suit. August 13, 1969. America

Photograph of a scientist testing a 'closed-circuit' laser that appears to be superior to a gyroscope for guiding spacecraft, rockets, airplanes and ships. Laser light beams flashing through the four fluorescent tubes in opposite directions are used to measure small movements of the laboratory table. Dated 20th Century

Wichita, Kansas: 1959. Test models of Douglas Aircraft Skybolt missiles nestle under a B-52 wing at Boeing Aircraft's Wichita Division. They were to be hypersonic air to surface ballistic missiles with nuclear capability, but were eventually scrapped in favor of the newly developed submarine based Polaris missile in 1962, by Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under President John Kennedy

Vintage Photograph. Test section of the 14 ft transonic wind tunnel test section from subsonic speeds thru the speed of sound to low supersonic values.

View of STS Discovery

Electrical Jewels, electricity in the theater. Electro-mobile jewelry, new luminous electric jewelry by Gustave Pierre Trouvé (1839-1902) 19th century French electrical engineer, France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1883

Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze. Photograph consists of a series of 45 frames for a movie showing a man, Fred Ott, sneezing. This photographic print mounted on card stock is the earliest surviving motion picture registered for copyright at the Library of Congress, received on January 9, 1894. Colloquially known as Fred Ott's Sneeze for its star (an Edison engineer), the photo represents the dawn of filmmaking in America while remaining something of an historical accident.

Russell Kippax, looking at a crinoid stem fossil in the fossil cave with Ben Nurse and Wally Dove below.Russell Kippax, assistant in a biology laboratory, climbs to examine a fossil. Below: Carpenter Wally Dove and engineer Ben Nurse. September 07, 1955.

1970s ANONYMOUS SILHOUETTE BOY LOOKING THROUGH MICROSCOPE AT HOME

View of STS Discovery

A diver from the luxury ship t.b.v. Duikbedrijf Hr.Ms. SOEMBA (A891) Underwater in a swimming pool in July 1974.

Detail Shots of B-32 Turret Figure 93. Test conducted in the NACA 19 foot pressure tunnel LMAL-38560 NACA document.

Recorder cupboard in the Meob sonar workshop.

Northeast bottom injury.Nordenskjöld (depicted - name)

Expansion valve.

A Peep Into The Future. A little girl, the youngest daughter of Professor Sir John Cockcroft, Peeps through the door of her father's Study. Professor Sir John Cockcroft, C.B.E., F.R.S. On July 17, 1948. The Cloak of Secrecy was lifted from the activities of Britain's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwall, near Didcot, in Berkshire.Today Britain has two Atomic Piles which not only Supply enough Radio-Active Isotopes to meet the Nation's Medical needs, and will make it Possible to extend the Supply of Isotopes to members of the British Commonwealth and other Countries, but are also a basis of Experiment in Industrial Application. November 04, 1949. (Photo by British Official Photograph)

Scientifical work on the Soviet North Pole Station: The winter dwellers of the Soviet station on the drifting ice-floe, taking the first water test from the Arctic Ocean on the North Pole. July 1, 1937. (Photo by Soyuzphoto).

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