Historical Scientific Instruments

A collection of vintage scientific equipment, showcasing pressure gauges, simulation controls, and diagnostic machinery from past nuclear testing and space exploration.

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Refrigerator LK200. Open. Proposal for 60 liters tropical cabinets.
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Impression of a large-diver suit. Is part of object series AVDKM 530305 to 530308.
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Scientist testing the effects of sunlight on finishes in a measurement laboratory, General Electric Company, Massachusetts, USA
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Lick Observatory Telescope Engraving circa 1890 San Jose California
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View of Solid Rocket Booster
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S72-53950 (November 1972) --- The transmitter of the Surface Electrical Properties Experiment (S-204) in a deployed configuration. This experiment will be deployed at the Taurus-Littrow landing site by the Apollo 17 crewmen. The purpose of the SEP experiment is to obtain data about the electromagnetic energy transmission, absorption and reflection characteristics of the lunar surface and subsurface for use in the development of a geological model of the upper layers of the moon. The experiment is designed to determine layering in the lunar surface, to search for the presence of water below the surface, and to measure electrical properties of the lunar material in situ.
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Anefo photo collection. Queen when working with atoms. March 17, 1966
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For Stratosphere -- M. Max Cosyns (right), with the balloon in which he proposes to make a lone flight into the stratosphere. April 25, 1933.
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In July 1959, William J. O Sullivan (right standing) and unidentified engineer examine the capsule containing the tightly folded and packed 12 diameter Beacon satellite inside. Taken from NASA SP-4308 Pg. 174
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Philodendron Cordatum, a popular indoor plant, thriving in a kitchen. April 1, 1955.
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View representing two containers right and bottom, vintage engraving. View representing two containers right and bottom, vintage engraved illustration. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10648108
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Radio Telescopes & Antennas - Science. August 30, 1953.
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Photograph of Karl Jansky and his directorial radio aerial system. Karl Guthe Jansky (1905-1950) an American physicist and radio engineer who discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way. Dated 20th century
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The 1960s Star Trek television series cast members visit NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, now Armstrong, in 1967. Chief Medical Officer Leonard ‘Bones McCoy played by DeForest Kelley and the shows creator Gene Roddenberry receive briefing on X-15 cockpit as they view inside.
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S67-50585 (1967) --- This is an intentional double exposure showing the Apollo Mission Simulator in the Mission Simulation and Training Facility, Building 5 at the Manned Spacecraft Center. In the exterior view astronauts William A. Anders, Michael Collins, and Frank Borman (reading from top of stairs) are about to enter the simulator. The interior view shows the three astronauts in the simulator. They are (left to right) Borman, Collins, and Anders.
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Radio detection and determination of distance by means of radio waves, 1961.
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Launch Phase of ARCAS E1-239 Image taken at Wallops Island
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T107 Machine damage.Aldebaran (depicted name)
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Vintage photograph. Man sitting in front of dial studded new computer that mathematically models a complex electric power system.
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***** Radiotelescope. March 29, 1955. (Photo by Daily Mirror).
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North Adams, Massachusetts: October, 1941 A young boy spent a dime to look through this Bausch and Lomb high power telescope at the beautiful Savoy Mountains of New England.
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A researcher at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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The lunar module design underwent gradual evolution from the first configuration proposed by Grumman in 1962. This model is the 1964 version. Langley had the task of building a simulator for the astronauts to practice lunar landings. The configuration of the initial vehicle used with the Lunar Landing Research Facility (LLRF) was changed in 1967 to more accurately reflect the standing position of the astronauts, cockpit arrangement, instrumentation, controls and field of view.
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Model of the first.
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20 Answers in One.Mr. J. Nowlan with his remarkable "Clock."Mr. J. Nowlan, 41-year-old paint-laboratory chemist, has, after four yeas work, designed and built a giant machine which, at a glance, can show the following: time, day, date, month, year and season, sunset, sunrise, moonset, moonrise. Moon's phases, date of next eclipse and known shooting stars, state of tides at any of the coastal towns in Britain, whether they are flown, ebbing, high or low, the time anywhere in the world, and advanced astronomical data including the stars that are visible overhead at any given moment. Mr. Nowlan, besides being a chemist, is interested in physics, astronomy, electrics and photography. September 5, 1949. (Photo by Fox).
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Reflecting telescopes: 1. Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B.C. Reflecting telescope with 72-in. mirror.2. Equatorial telescope at Columbia university. (The rising floor is about one-third of the way from the top.)3. U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington. 26-in. Equatorial with which the satellites of Mars were discovered in 18774 & 6. The Lick Observatory: 36-in. refractor with spectrograph attached and (6) the Crossley reflector, showing moving observing platform5. A l/10th scale model of the 200-in. telescope in process of assembly for use of the California Institute of Technology on Mt. Palomar, California.7. This is a cutaway model showing the 200-in. telescope in the dome. Dated 20th Century
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AFS-5 Concord , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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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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Astronauts Conrad and Bean at Lunar Landing Research Facility. Alan Bean was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. He served as backup astronaut for the Gemini 10 and Apollo 9 missions.In September of 1962, Mr. Conrad was selected as an astronaut by NASA. His first flight was Gemini V, which established the space endurance record and placed the United States in the lead for man-hours in space. As commander of Gemini XI, Mr. Conrad helped to set a world's altitude record. He then served as commander of Apollo XII, the second lunar landing. On Mr. Conrad's final mission, he served as commander of Skylab II, the first United States Space Station.
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The Electrolux laboratory. White D4 cabinet. Elux exhibition, Stockholm.
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Photograph of The Yapp Dome and Telescope, presented by William Johnstone Yapp. Dated 20th Century
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Photograph of the Tower Telescope used at Mt Wilson Observatory, California. Dated 20th Century
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Soviet meteorological satellite with an orbit of 688 km. on earth. It was launched in February 1967. This satellite takes photographs of the Earth and carries large panels or photocells that automatically rotate toward the sun.
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Anefo photo collection. Collecting radiosis from Russian art moon at the Radio Reception Center PTT Nera, Nederhorst Den Berg. Oscillograph with visibly made radiosins. October 8, 1957. Nederhorst Den Berg
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S70-28229 (16 Jan. 1970) --- Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., commander of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission, participates in lunar surface simulation training at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Lovell is attached to a Six Degrees of Freedom Simulator. He is carrying an Apollo Lunar Hand Tools carrier in his right hand.
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The Electrolux laboratory. The D15 refrigerator.
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Sputnik I the first space satellite
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Astronaut Allen Bean with Lunar Landing Research Facility (LLRF) crew. Alan Bean was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. He served as backup astronaut for the Gemini 10 and Apollo 9 missions.
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Astronaut wearing an MC-2 Full Pressure space suit and sitting on a chair, Prototype Chair for X-15 Test Flight
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Photograph of Man Setting Up Exhibit.
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S74-25259 (June 1974) --- Four crewmen of the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission are photographed beside a Soyuz spacecraft trainer during ASTP crew training activity at the Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City) near Moscow. They are, left to right, astronaut Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot of the American ASTP prime crew; cosmonaut Valeriy N. Kubasov, engineer of the Soviet ASTP first (prime) crew; cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov, commander of the Soviet ASTP first (prime) crew; and astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, commander of the American ASTP prime crew.
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Anefo photo collection. Tomorrow Starrekunda day in congress center in The Hague, organized by Telelac, 2 employees of ESA places model of American Space shuttle. March 12, 1981. The Hague, South Holland
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Metereology: aerometer for measuring air force.
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The Electrolux laboratory. Ed-30. Sevel Air Cooled.
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Future astronaut Sullivan, wearing a high altitude pressure suit. She set the women's record for sustained American aviation altitude, flying at 63,300 feet on July 1, 1979. Future astronaut Sullivan, wearing a high altitude pressure suit, later served on three Space Shuttle missions.
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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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Astrophysics Institute, Bill Curtis, Fulbright Student. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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V 1675c.M6 and Aspöcilds taken associated with the minsveppers M6 and Aspö's minsection
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Dr. Robert Goddard's 22 foot rocket in it's launching tower, 1940, near Roswell, New Mexico. N.T. Ljungquist on the ground, A.W. Kisk working on rocket and C. Mansur at top of tower. b a href= http //www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html rel= nofollow NASA Goddard Space Flight Center /a /b enables NASAs mission through four scientific endeavors Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASAs accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agencys mission. b Follow us on a href= http //twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix rel= nofollow Twitter /a /b b Join us on a href= http //www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897 ref=tsd rel= nofollow Facebook /a /b
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Grab comes up with "mouthful" of twist wreckage. Purpose of salvage is to try to determine exactly what caused Comet to crash. April 17, 1954.
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Historic photograph, 90 line picture receiver, around 1932
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Scientists working in a control room, Mercury Control Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
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An engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Preparing For The Eclipse Of The Sun - The Csiro scientist at work on the multiple aerial interferometer at potts hill research station.They will be used in scanning the sun with its very narrow beam of 1/20 degree when the eclipse takes place in Egypt. Persia. & Russia on the 25th Feb 52. This is the worlds leading station in radio Astromonery.And have discovered the Bolton radio stars. That are Tosmall to be seen with any of the modern "Eyes! etc. January 31, 1952. (Photo by Gordon Herbert Short/Fairfax Media).
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Five heart beats are shown on this electro cardiograph which is used to detect heart disease. June 6, 1933.
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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.Kamerativativ in metal with swivel, lowering and increasing head. Silent upon movement. Made for heavier cameras.
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High voltage discharge in the Tesla test station, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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L59-7932 First University of Michigan Strongarm sounding rocket on launcher at Wallops for test, November 10, 1959. Photograph published in A New Dimension Wallops Island Flight Test Range: The First Fifteen Years by Joseph Shortal. A NASA publication. Page 701.E5-188 Shop and Launcher Pictures
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Photograph by Johann Victor Krämer around 1900 showing artists' templates on albumin paper, depicting design sketches and creative layouts in a studio.
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General Electric 1948 top loading dishwasher.
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Implements a discussion of experience with Nuclear Power plants, to be held during the forenoon plenary session.On July 18, 1955, for the first time in history, homes, farms and industries in a northeastern area of the United States began using atomic electric power generated in this large sphere. The atomic reactor in the sphere is a prototype power plant, which was made. Electric power form the sphere is transmitted over the lines of a commercially operated power company. August 1, 1955.
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Portrait of man with warning sign, Preventing the entrance of disease into the United States. The Public Health Services has at each of its port quarantine station, a fumigation crew.
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C-141 KAO Cornell University, FAR Infrared Interferometer (Team Photo)
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Project 30-7 - Operation Tumbler/Snapper (Nevada Test Site) Test Activities. Area 7 ground zero (Same as CPZ-03-06). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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S72-35970 (21 April 1972) --- A 360-degree field of view of the Apollo 16 Descartes landing site area composed of individual scenes taken from color transmission made by the color RCA TV camera mounted on the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). This panorama was made while the LRV was parked at the rim of Flag Crater (Station 1) during the first Apollo 16 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) by astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. The overlay identifies the directions and the key lunar terrain features. The camera panned across the rear portion of the LRV in its 360-degree sweep. Astronauts Young, commander; and Duke, lunar module pilot; descended in the Apollo 16 Lunar Module (LM) Orion to explore the Descartes highlands landing site on the moon. Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) Casper in lunar orbit.
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The General Electric Compnay GEC radio and television advert London Illustrated News, 1949
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View of O&C Building Altitude Chambers