Vintage Laboratory Research

A collection of black-and-white images showcasing vintage laboratory settings, scientists conducting experiments, and various scientific instruments from the mid-20th century.

Vintage photograph. After new synthetic compounds are tested and either the pharmacology or c chemotherapy division, they are sent to the pathology and hematology division to determine animal tolerance to the drugs under test

Atomic Scientists (Medicine). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Vintage Photograph. A scientist holding a test tube measuring the liquid inside while seated at desk.

At the Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm, Beltsville, Maryland.. Photographs. 1935-09. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

A laboratory with staff (Indian and British ) at work at a table piled high with bottles. Photograph, 1900/1920 ().

First specimens from the Australian Museum Central and North West Expedition: The Australian Museum Assistant Preparator Howard Hughes checking a Rare Harlequin Flock Pidgeon caught at Eyres Rock (Central Australia). May 12, 1985. (Photo by Peter Leyden)

Vintage Photograph. Man inspects test tubes at desk.

$National Physical Laboratory- Science and Technology in Wartime, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK, 1944 A scientist in the Optics Section of the Light Division at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, looks through a microscope in order to read the measurements taken by this high precision spectrometer. The spectrometer is used to measure refraction and high precision angles, and the microscope is needed because the gradations used as are so fine.$

Anefo photo collection. Shave demonstration with the stave manipulator on the "atom. July 23, 1957

Östermalm's telephone station, Sibyllegatan 24, in 1910.

Interior of the observatory on the Bolwerk Zonnenburg in Utrecht: Meridiaankijker in the Meridian room.

Geotechnical laboratory

Teenage girl standing near a microscope

Female scientist examining chemical in a test tube

Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999), won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for isolating and identifying transuranium elements (those heavier than uranium). 1948 photo of Seaborg adjusting a Geiger-Muller counter during research on plutonium.

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition "The Instrument" in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. The mechanical heart, a Dutch product, which is capable of replacing the human heart. However, this mechanical heart-long system is only tested in practice in the Netherlands. October 2, 1957. Utrecht

Dr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus, which appears to break up into two helium nuclei. Physicists Cockcroft and E T S Walton developed the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator to artificially accelerate atomic particles to high energies, to enable them to observe the results of splitting the atom. Date: 1932

Farmville High School Science Equipment Storeroom. This item is a photograph of the Science Equipment Storeroom at Farmville High School. This photograph was used as Plaintiff's Exhibit No. 5 in the landmark civil rights case Dorothy E. Davis, et al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, et al.. Mid Atlantic Region (Philadelphia, PA). Photographic Print.

Description: Trinidad and Tobago. 'The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. A plantation (banana) being examined in the Botany Department. Mr K. Shephard Junior Cytogeneticist, investigates the seed content of a plantain from a pollinated bunch'. Photograph No.: D 79158. Official Trinidad and Tobago photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Publicity statement on reverse. Location: Trinidad and Tobago Date: 1955 Mar caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Old black and white photo, Thomas Edison with kinetoscope, 1912, Fort Myers, Florida, USA, North America

Atomic Energy in France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Laboratory Interiors - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Haagse Post: Lord Gerritsen, Arts Olgv. August 13, 1969

Blood Drying Unit- Processing Blood in the Laboratory, Cambridge, England, UK, 1943 Staff of the blood drying unit at Cambridge University at work in the laboratory. In the foreground, one worker is pushing a trolley full of bottles of dried plasma from the drying chambers to the area where they will be fitted with their metal caps, complete with hypodermic needles, before returning to the drying process. In the background, another worker slides a tray of bottles through a hatch into the room where the caps are put onto the bottles. This hatch has two doors and excludes 'draughts of dust-laden air' from the main laboratory.

Geotechnical laboratory

Female researcher working with chemicals

Penicillin Past, Present and Future- the Development and Production of Penicillin, England, 1944 Dr Ernest Chain undertakes an experiment in his office at the School of Pathology at Oxford University. Dr Chain originally came from Germany, but became a naturalised British subject in 1933. With his colleague, Professor Florey, and their team, he was instrumental in the isolation of penicillin.

Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), Japanese physician and researcher, at his microscope, photograph by Leon Gimpel (1873-1948) from the magazine L'Illustration, year 71, no 3682, September 20, 1913.

reparto confezionamento scarponi da sci e montagna, 1956

1960S Three Students Using Microscopes Two Boys One Girl Indoor High School

Astrophysics Institute, Bill Curtis, Fulbright Student. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Vintage Photograph. Man in white doctor coat examining test tube and beaker filled with liquid

USA, Alabama, Tuskegee Institute, George Washington Carver Museum, interiors of laboratory in museum

John Landin in his laboratory about 1914.

Installation photograph of Döbbelin's 1865 Berlin photo exhibition showing albumin prints on display boxes, illustrating mid-19th century photographic presentation methods.

FREDERIC JOLIOT-CURIE and his wife IRENE, daughter of the Curies, both eminent scientists in their own right - photo 1935. Date: 1900 - 1958

Photograph of a technician holding a laser 'demodulator' used to convert laser light beams into television signals and radio sounds. A 'modulator' first changes the laser beam so it can carry TV, Radio or Telephone messages. The demodulator was developed by National Engineering Science Company and Douglas Aircraft Company. Dated 20th Century

Vintage Photograph. A scientist looking at liquid in beaker while taking notes.

Timber Related Crops - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

The Electrolux laboratory. The staff in the laboratory on Lilla Essingen.

Cymerman-Craig Dr. J. Cymerman-Craig ***** "Veralide". November 17, 1955.

Forest Diseases - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Scientist smiling and writing in notebook

The chemical laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology.

Chemistry instructor Stuart Mayper shows proper use of Bunsen burner in bending glass tube. Mayper and Dr. Rossignol are married, live on campus. January 20, 1949.

1940S Young Woman Chemist Holding Up Test Tube

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and radio pioneer. Artist: Unknown

James C. Gentles. Photograph, 1958.

After several weeks of learning, Keith is finally working in the laboratory of the factory where his makes final inspection of Mr. bifocal lens prior to fusing. Completely rehabilitated, he is once more a curlian with a curlians job & as slowly getting his curlian prospective back again. May 12, 1944. (Photo by Herfort).

Sticky Bomb- the Production of the No 74 Grenade in Britain, 1943 At a workshop producing sticky bombs somewhere in Britain, Mrs M Powell ensures that the glass flasks which form the main body of the bombs fit securely onto the handles by which the bombs are thrown. According to the original caption, Mrs Powell's husband is in the Royal Air Force.

Anefo photo collection. Command gelderlander jaap master in hunger strike. August 27, 1984

WALTER S. ADAMS (LEFT) & PAUL W. MERRILL STANDING AMID THE VARIOUS DISPLAYS FROM MT. WILSON.

Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 ñ October 26, 2007), American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of 'the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)'

Linus Pauling speaking in a lecture hall 1967. Linus Pauling (1901-1994) American chemist. won the 1954 and 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Interior of the psychiatric neurological clinic (Nicolaas Beetsstraat 24) in Utrecht: Laboratory.

Dr Wollman in his laboratory at the Pasteur institute. Large quantities of anti-tetanus serum was produced at the Pasteur institute under the direction of Professor Metchnikoff. The serum was needed to treat those wounded by the war, and was administered to the soldiers by injection. Date: 1914

National Institutes of Health researcher Dr Virginia Evans is shown examining a large flask in which tissue is being grown on perforated cellophane, by a method developed at the National Cancer Institute, Washington, DC, 1950. (Photo by National Institutes of Health/GG Vintage Images)

1910 photograph showing mobile disinfection team for disinfecting clothing of emigrants emigrating to the United States in the Antwerp port, Belgium, Europe

Marva Meteorologist

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A photograph demonstrating the boiling of "collars, cuffs, laces, and such-like small articles" in a calico bag during the arduous process of washday. Date: 1911

Vintage Photograph. A scientist in lab deep in thought while sitting at desk.

The first stage of bio-assay. Filling cups on the test dishes with drops of treptomycin. November 11, 1947.

Piccards prepare for another stratosphere flight: Mr. and Mrs. Piccard with Barometer they will use to tel the height of their proposed flight. Mr. and Mrs. Jean Piccard are making final preparations for their planned forthcoming stratosphere flight. July 31, 1934. (Photo by Wide World Photos)

Thür Georg (1846-1924), Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin (Humboldt University). Chemical Institute (1897-1900): Inner view laboratory. Photo on cardboard, 56.2 x 42.9 cm (including scan edges) Thür Georg (1846-1924): Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (Humboldt-Universität) Berlin. Chemisches Institut

Anefo photo collection. Tubantia command: Shell laboratory technician. January 17, 1978

A gravity-measuring device which can measure the weight of the earth Date: circa 1936

Cartoon - Won't Put Them Under a Microscope. John Collins (1917-2007)

Vintage Photograph. Man using micrometer caliper to take measurement of screw

Chemistry Laboratory. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Flandreau School and Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Data Processing Machine - Science (See Also: Data General Headquarter-Vic Meld & Jim Monaghan). February 23, 1949.

S71-21244 (24 Feb. 1971) --- Three Brown and Root/Northrop technicians in the Nonsterile Nitrogen Laboratory in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) peer through glass at the much-discussed basketball size rock which Apollo 14 crewmen brought back from the Fra Mauro area of the moon. They are, left to right, Linda Tyler, Nancy L. Trent and Sandra Richards.

French Chemist Francois Eugene Turpin (1848-1927) in his Laboratory - French Gas warfare specialist - WWI. France broke the Hague Conventions in August 1914 and used 26mm gas grenades containing liquid explosive 'Turpinite'. In 1885, based on research of Hermann Sprengel, Turpin patented the use of pressed and cast picric acid in blasting charges and artillery shells. In 1887 the French government adopted it under the name melinite, with addition of gun cotton. Date: 1914

Gets Oxygen from Air by new method Melvin Calvin, of California chemist, works with the ***** of his Oxygen Producing machine which is one of the hitherto ***** closed wartime Achievements of American scientists. The Process ***** on same Principle as that of Human body in taking Oxygen from ***** into blood. March 11, 1946. (Photo by Association Press Wirephoto).

Pioneer in Science: Early Female Researcher in a Vintage Laboratory Setting

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