Scientific Instruments and Equipment

Images of various scientific instruments including motors, telescopes, and laboratory setups, showcasing technology in research and experimentation.

CLOSEUP OF 100-INCH TELESCOPE NEWTONIAN PLATE-BASE AND SURROUNDINGS (DIRECT VIEW).
CLOSEUP OF 100-INCH TELESCOPE NEWTONIAN PLATE-BASE AND SURROUNDINGS (DIRECT VIEW).
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U.S. Signal Corp. barometer, made by L. Casella, London, England | Library of Congress
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The Electrolux laboratory. L2 refrigerator (Lennings).
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Photograph of the interior of the Pulkovo Observatory, Russia, the principal astronomical observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dated 19th Century
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S93-33257 (15 Mar 1993) --- This close-up view features tiny articulating fold mirrors that will go into a replacement camera for the Wide FieldPlanetary Camera (WFPC-1) currently on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). A team of NASA astronauts will pay a visit to the HST later this year, carrying with them the new WF/PC-2 to replace the one currently on the HST. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California has been working on the replacement system for several months. See NASA photo S93-33258 for an optical schematic diagram of one of the four channels of the WFPC-2 showing the path taken by beams from the HST before an image is formed at the camera's charge-coupled devices.
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Anefo photo collection. H. M. De Koningin visits the ANT. Van Leeuwenhoekshuis Queen at the Telecobalt device. June 20, 1961
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NASA TN D-3828 Figure 15. OPERATIONAL FEATURES OF THE LANGLEY LUNAR LANDING RESEARCH FACILITYby Thomas C. O'Bryan and Donald E. Hewes Details of vehicle gamble support assembly.
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S73-25884 (1973) --- Astronaut Russell Schweickart in Orbital Workshop Simulator (OWS) working out procedure to be used for repair of damaged thermal protection cover on Skylab 2 spacecraft.
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Flight engine Bristol Jupiter Design: Flight Engine Bristol Jupiter. Framed photo.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians inspect the Viking Lander 2 in Kennedy's Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 1. The first Viking is scheduled for launch from Launch Complex 41 no earlier than Aug. 11, 1975, the second, no earlier than Aug. 21, 1975. Once in orbit around Mars, the lander will detach and descend to the planet's surface to conduct further investigation. The Viking's 440-million-mile journey to the Red Planet will take about 11 months.
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Interior of test room showing humidity and heat units , Paints & varnishes, Research, Processes & techniques, Scientific equipment, Laboratories. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection
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A761193 GENERAL DYNAMICS FLORIDA FABRICATING JONES (Project Engineer) SEP 27 76EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 9/27/1976 ASSEMBLY BUILDING; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; ELECTRONIC FABRICATION; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; FABRICATING; FABRICATION; FLORIDA FABRICATING; GENERAL DYNAMICS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MALE; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; TABLES; TEST SITES 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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A magic lantern slide projector, 1671. The magic lantern or Laterna Magica is an early type of image projector employing pictures on sheets of glass. It was developed in the 17th century and commonly used for educational and entertainment purposes
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Project 23 - Redwing (Enewetak/Bikini) Test Activities. Tewa Device in Cab on a Barge, Parry Island. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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Centennial chimes. The bells. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Exhibitions, Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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HALE'S SPECTROHELIOSCOPE: COELOSTAT MIRRORS.
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Mercury astronaut John Glenn prepares for a test in the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility (MASTIF) inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Female worker at C-141 Circular Variable Filter Spectrometer & Yerkes Infrared ca. 1979
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Bezel at the Observatory of Paris, 14th arrondissement Bezel at the Observatory, Paris (14th arr.). 1850-1900. Anonymous photography.
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APPARATUS FOR MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IN BASEMENT OF CASE SCHOOL FOR APPLIED SCIENCE. Retouched image.
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View of Apollo 12 CDR "Pete" Conrad during LLTV (Lunar Landing Training Vehicle) Fligh at Ellington AFB, for news release.
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Electric motor space.BB Sida viewed .. Kockums AB (depicted name), shark (depicted name)
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Anefo photo collection. Queen when working with atoms. March 17, 1966
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Godsexpedition
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Laboratory Techniques - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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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 mod
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Illustration showing Gravity driven clock: a short cylinder with a dial at one end, travels down an helical path. The pointer shows the fractions of an hour on the dial and the hour itself is indicated on the helix, 1719
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72 H - Jet Propulsion & Gas - Turbine Engine. October 17, 1955.
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Elsevier photo collection. operation device microscopy (microver film). 1939
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Albumin photograph showing a camera alongside a preparation microscope, highlighting scientific instruments and laboratory setup.
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The Gondola of Prof. Auguste Piccard and Monsieur Cosyns used for the second ascent into the stratosphere on August 18th, 1932. The maximum height reached was 16,940 metres (10 1/2 miles)! Date: 1932
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Coover's KYMOGRAPH, designed to test the independence of alleged psychic voices, speaking through a medium, from the medium's own voice Date: 1914
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Vintage Photograph. Quality Control Lab in Minute Maid Corporation.
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Interior of Otago Museum, marine section stereoscopic photographs, gelatin dry plate negatives, black-and-white negatives
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Engineer and 12 foot Beacon showing NACA emblem on inflated satelloon . For related information see, Spaceflight Revolution, NASA from Sputnik to Apollo, by James R. Hansen. NASA SP-4308, 1995. p. 173.
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Photograph of Audience Looking at Model of Shoreline.
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Anefo photo collection. Horecava 1976 in Amsterdamse RAI; Prize winner "Making ice cream" at Giants Coup Ice. January 5, 1976
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Aldebaran (depicted - name).Aldebaran (depicted - name)
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Antares (depicted - name).Antares (depicted - name)
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The telecommunications globe in 1965.
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A drying and 'setting' helmet, on display at the Hairdressers' Annual Exhibition at White City, 1928. 1928
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Three US Astronauts in full space attire, pose beside a model of the Apollo capsule designed to take men to the moon. Unmanned flights of the three-man capsule, scheduled to follow Gemini tests, will mark the beginning of the Apollo Program which will land men on the moon before the end of the decade, Cape Canaveral, FL, 1962. (Photo by NASA/GG Vintage Images)
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T107 Machine damage.Aldebaran (depicted name)
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Photograph of the Hooker telescope, a 100-inch reflecting telescope located at the Mount Wilson Observatory, California. Dated 20th Century
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A88328 U12P MISSION CYBER SCRATCH GAUGES POST SHOT DAVID WAYMIRE (PROJECT ENGINEER) FEB 5 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/5/1988 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MISSION CYBER; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SCRATCH GAUGES POST SHOT; SG-4; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; U12P MISSION CYBER 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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INTERIOR OF THE 100-INCH DOME, SHOWING THE TELESCOPE, CASSEGRAIN OBSERVING PLATFORM, ETC., AS SEEN FROM THE WEST.
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Technicians at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) assemble a component of the Low-power Atmosphere Compensation Experiment satellite, one of two major Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) projects undertaken by the NRL. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Reading observations temperature cabinet "meteorological cage". July 1955. Guinea
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S75-21945 (24 Feb. 1975) --- Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov (left) and astronaut Thomas P. Stafford take part in Apollo-Soyuz Test Project joint crew training in Building 35 at NASA's Johnson Space Center. They are commanders of their respective prime crews. The training session simulated the activities of the second day in Earth orbit. Stafford and Leonov are in the Docking Module mock-up.
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Inspection tour of NASA installations: Houston, Texas, NASA Rich Building, departure, 11:10AM. President John F. Kennedy receives a scale model of the Apollo command module from Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth (center, at lectern), following a tour of spacecraft displays inside a hangar at the Rich Building of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; a mock-up of the lunar lander (also known as the Bug) sits at left in background. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (partially hidden) stands in back; photographers observe at right. President Kennedy visited the Center as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. See also MO 63.1913, Model of Apollo Command Module Blemishes in center of image are original to the negative.
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Anefo photo collection. Exhibition playing clocks in the palace on Dam Square in Amsterdam. An astrolabium. July 27, 1979. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Harold Goldstein (R) and Dan Leiser (L) discuss bone implant development in the the Shuttle Tile Laboratory N-242. A spin-off of Ames research on both bone density in microgravity and on thermal protection foams is the bone-growth implant shown in 1993.
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176 - Space Ships (See Aviation Cards For All Named Space Ships & Vehicles Also Space Travel Etc.). March 03, 1955.
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The laboratories of Marie and Pierre Curie, Paris: room where experiments on uranium ore took place. Photograph, ca. 1900.
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Workers in Front of Exhibit Panels. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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A model of the State Railways, SJ F 1201. In the background, a seven electricity.
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Photograph taken within Cape Canaveral. Dated 20th century
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An engraving depicting a Simplex bicycle brake: invented by Alfred Williams, and manufactured by the Redditch Cycle Co., England. Dated 19th century
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Vintage Photograph. A surveyor inspecting the land. Frame 3.
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Atomic reactor on shown in Geneva -- An American Atomic Reactor has arrived here from Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, for an exhibition in the grounds of the Palais des Nations of the peaceful uses of Atomic energy. Here an airport worker makes a face as he unloads a heavy cylinder of uranium from the plane. July 3, 1955. (Photo by Planet News Ltd.).
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Mr Gombault, employee of the Marine Electronic and Optical Company (Meob), sees Abraham in May 1990.
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Poll photo collection. Visit to Naples and Vesuvius. Professor Luigo Carmera in the Observatory. 1938. Italy, Naples
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View of O&C Building Altitude Chambers
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The Electrolux laboratory. Proposal for refrigerators L 10, L 30, L 55 and L 55.
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The Electrolux laboratory. Shelf-arrangement in the L 38 refrigerator.
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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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Picture of Ingmar Jungner's story of autochemist.The story is available in the archive, series: XXX image text: "Fig. 14c. Measuring station connected to the automation laboratory data machine for non-automated analyzes (1965).
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Photograph of the first Plutonium Button produced from the building 371 Aqueous recovery operation at the Rocky Flats Plant, Non-Nuclear Production Facility. Dated 1983
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Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) which served as their home until they reached the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston, Texas.
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Workplace aboard the GW frigate hr.ms. Tromp, 1978.
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Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 mask spraying. undated
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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.Phototelegrafi recipient apparatus.
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Shown here is the Skylab food heating and serving tray with food, drink, and utensils. The tray contained heating elements for preparing the individual food packets. The food on Skylab was a great improvement over that on earlier spaceflights. It was no longer necessary to squeeze liquified food from plastic tubes. Skylab's kitchen in the Orbital Workshop wardroom was so equipped that each crewman could select his own menu and prepare it to his own taste. The Marshall Space Flight Center had program management responsibility for the development of Skylab hardware and experiments.
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Anefo photo collection. Balamundi assignment; Exhibition Chemistry 70 in Moscow September 10, 1970. October 18, 1970. Moscow