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Ballon à voile k643b2505 0 0r967481h

Ballon à voile k643b2505 0 0r967481h

Guyot's balloon Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a hot air balloon in the style of an airship with a sail and oars for steering. The design of the balloon is credited to "Guyot," likely ... More

Evelyn Kieffer Reactor flask in use at Hercules Brunswick plant 2012 017 b1f6 73666542g

Evelyn Kieffer Reactor flask in use at Hercules Brunswick plant 2012 0...

General view of research assistant Evelyn Kieffer using a reactor flask to analyze an unidentified substance in a laboratory at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plant... More

Marie Meurdrac La Chymie Charitable et Facile, en Faveur des Dames RGNb10359072.01.tp 1666

Marie Meurdrac La Chymie Charitable et Facile, en Faveur des Dames RGN...

Title page from La chymie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames. Par damoiselle M[arie] M[eurdrac]. Paris : Rue des Billettes et Rue du Plastre, 1666.

American Red Cross and Medical Research Committee, "An Atlas of Gas Poisoning" plate X (square)

American Red Cross and Medical Research Committee, "An Atlas of Gas Po...

Plate X from An Atlas of Gas Poisoning by the American Red Cross and Medical Research Committee (American Red Cross, 1918). Plate title: "Microscopic section of human lung from mustard gas poisoning, with deat... More

Hashime Murayama Washington Star, February 26, 1939

Hashime Murayama Washington Star, February 26, 1939

Picture of scientific illustrator and artist Hashime Murayama, published in the Washington Star, February 26, 1939, p.C10 (photo), synopsis: The eldest son of a samurai family who forsook the warrior inclin... More

Insertion of plug and bridge wire into electric blasting caps 2012 017 b2f37 1544bp57b

Insertion of plug and bridge wire into electric blasting caps 2012 017...

General view of employee Emily Port inserting plugs and bridge wires into the shells of electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of... More

Reaction kinetics system nz805z932

Reaction kinetics system nz805z932

The Spinco Division's Model 260 Reaction Kinetics System measured the Precise rate constants of molecular reactions. Published without a copyright notice in Beckman Instruments Feedback newsletter, v11 n2, May... More

THC 2003.902.118 Charging the Experimental Blast Furnace

THC 2003.902.118 Charging the Experimental Blast Furnace

Mr. Royster (left) and Mr. Hignett charging the experimental blast furnace

Alan Kahn with Medical Electrode qv33rw808

Alan Kahn with Medical Electrode qv33rw808

Portrait of Alan R. Kahn Alan Kahn was Beckman's Medical Director. He is pictured holding an electrode designed for use during surgery and research projects. It monitored electrical signals from the brain, hear... More

Beckman model 72 pH meter jw827b87k

Beckman model 72 pH meter jw827b87k

Beckman Model 72 pH Meter The Beckman Instruments Model 72 pH meter was a line operated version of the Model 76 Expanded Scale pH Meter, designed for routine use. Published without a copyright notice in Beckma... More

Penicillin poster 5.40, World War II photo

Penicillin poster 5.40, World War II photo

United States Federal Government World War II poster, showing a man sitting up in a hospital bed, smiling, reading a magazine and smoking a cigarette, with the caption "Penicillin / THE NEW LIFE-SAVING DRUG / S... More

Robert Pairs ebony February 1949 p28

Robert Pairs ebony February 1949 p28

Photograph of Robert B. Pairs from "Atom Scientists: Ten Negro Scientists at Argonne Lab Help in Race to Harness Atomic Materials”, Ebony magazine, September 1949, pp. 26-28. Copyright not renewed. The capti... More

Liebig Company Trading Card Ad 01.12.003 front

Liebig Company Trading Card Ad 01.12.003 front

French trading card for Véritable Extrait de viande Liebig (Real Liebig Meat Extract) depicting Albertus Magnus Image is of one main figure in a laboratory ; the central figure is depicted on one knee in front... More

Bateau volant ws859g81n 0 9p290b295

Bateau volant ws859g81n 0 9p290b295

Design for a flying boat Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a flying boat. The illustration is based on the design proposed by Italian mathematician, naturalist, and aeronautics pioneer Fr... More

Laboratory staff examines first batches of new polymers 8049g5346

Laboratory staff examines first batches of new polymers 8049g5346

Laboratory staff in the High Polymer Division of the Naval Air Engineering Center's Aeromaterials Laboratory examining the first batches of new NARPOL polymers used to coat aircraft metals. The individuals in t... More

Herschel Wallace ebony February 1949 p26

Herschel Wallace ebony February 1949 p26

Photograph of Herschel Wallace from "Atom Scientists: Ten Negro Scientists at Argonne Lab Help in Race to Harness Atomic Materials”, Ebony magazine, September 1949, pp. 26-28. Copyright not renewed. The capt... More

American Red Cross and Medical Research Committee, "An Atlas of Gas Poisoning" plate II (cropped)

American Red Cross and Medical Research Committee, "An Atlas of Gas Po...

Plate II from An Atlas of Gas Poisoning by the American Red Cross and Medical Research Committee (American Red Cross, 1918). Plate title: "Blue type of asphyxia from phosgene poisoning, with intense venous co... More

Ballon poisson de 9019s368w 0 ng451j60n

Ballon poisson de 9019s368w 0 ng451j60n

Ballon-Poisson De [Ferdinand] Lagleize Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a navigable balloon designed by aeronaut Ferdinand Lagleize in the style of a fish. 1850 (Date attributed to ball... More

William Birnbaum with a Phonocardiogram System 4t64gn45n

William Birnbaum with a Phonocardiogram System 4t64gn45n

William Birnbaum with a Phonocardiogram System Electronics Engineer William Birnbaum demonstrates a Phonocardiogram System (including a Type 531 Oscilloscope), manufactured by Beckman Instruments. This instrume... More

Ballon sphérique f7623d65n 0 np193b36b

Ballon sphérique f7623d65n 0 np193b36b

Spherical ball Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of the hot air balloon in the style of a sphere with a passenger basket underneath. 1909 (Date attributed to postcard) This postcard is par... More

Pat Bodie examining Rosin sample at Hercules Brunswick plant2012 017 b1f6 sf268591k

Pat Bodie examining Rosin sample at Hercules Brunswick plant2012 017 b...

General view of office machine operator Pat Bodie examining a sample of rosin at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules plants specializing in naval stores, the Brunswick p... More

Cynthia Hall ebony February 1949 p28

Cynthia Hall ebony February 1949 p28

Photograph of Cynthia Hall from "Atom Scientists: Ten Negro Scientists at Argonne Lab Help in Race to Harness Atomic Materials”, Ebony magazine, September 1949, pp. 26-28. Copyright not renewed. The caption ... More

Portrait of Herbert Newby McCoy 1870-1945

Portrait of Herbert Newby McCoy 1870-1945

Photograph of Herbert Newby McCoy, published in "Notes and News". The Condor. 47 (4): 174–175. 1 July 1945. doi:10.2307/1364173. Copyright not renewed.

2015.028.013 Taking flattened sheet of glass from lehr in the furnace

2015.028.013 Taking flattened sheet of glass from lehr in the furnace

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 2 - Making glass sheets from cylinders, Image 13 - Taking flattened sheet of glass from lehr in the furnace. These stereographs were create... More

2015.028.023 Making the sand moulds for pig iron

2015.028.023 Making the sand moulds for pig iron

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 5 - Making iron and steel by several processes, Image 23 - Making the sand moulds for pig iron. These stereographs were created and sold as... More

Bendix MA-2 Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer with female model mg74qm60n 0 cf95jc084

Bendix MA-2 Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer with female model mg74qm6...

Bendix MA-2 Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer with female model General view of a Bendix MA-2 Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer with a female model. The Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (TOFMS) was the flagship ... More

Depart de léon 3484zj12p 0 h989r4209

Depart de léon 3484zj12p 0 h989r4209

Departure of Léon Gambetta and Eugène Spuller aboard the Armand-Barbès Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of French politicians Léon Gambetta (1838-1882) and Eugène Spuller (1835-1896) fleein... More

Eleanor Vadala and C.A. Cassola with a barrel of radioactive material br86b383m

Eleanor Vadala and C.A. Cassola with a barrel of radioactive material ...

Laboratory Staff Working with Radioactive Material: Color photograph of Eleanor Vadala, Chemist, and C.A. Cassola, Division Superintendent, working with a barrel of radioactive material at the Naval Air Materia... More

First montgolfier brother rv042v13m 0 hx11xg48b

First montgolfier brother rv042v13m 0 hx11xg48b

First Montgolfier Brothers Balloon Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a globe-shaped flying balloon. The illustration depicts the first successful public hot air balloon demonstration on ... More

William Ballhaus Sr 1967 Feedback crop 2012 002 488 474299495

William Ballhaus Sr 1967 Feedback crop 2012 002 488 474299495

William F. Ballhaus, Sr. Dr. William F. Ballhaus, Sr. (1918-2013) was a Stanford- and Caltech-educated aeronautical engineer who assumed the presidency of Beckman Instruments in 1965. During his tenure, Ballhau... More

Bakelite color chart 1924 Gifts to Treasure Embed Art Company

Bakelite color chart 1924 Gifts to Treasure Embed Art Company

Bakelite Color Chart, showing "Bakelite Pearl Colors" (pink, yellow, pale pink, green, white and purple) and "New Bakelite Jewel Quality Colors" (various yellows, ambers, red, greens, orange, mottled). Origin... More

Liebig Company Trading Card Ad 01.12.005 front

Liebig Company Trading Card Ad 01.12.005 front

French trading card for Véritable Extrait de viande Liebig (Real Liebig Meat Extract) depicting Frédéric-Charles Achard Main image depicts the multiple steps in a manufacturing process going from bottom left to... More

Walter Stanley Haines - A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair

Walter Stanley Haines - A black and white photo of a man sitting in a ...

Portrait of Walter Stanley Haines (September 27, 1850-January 27, 1923)

2015.028.011 Splitting cylinders on splitting bucks ready to flatten

2015.028.011 Splitting cylinders on splitting bucks ready to flatten

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 2 - Making glass sheets from cylinders, Image 11 - Splitting cylinders on splitting bucks ready to flatten. These stereographs were created... More

Balloon flown by 3197xn272 0 6d56zx84t

Balloon flown by 3197xn272 0 6d56zx84t

"The Giant", Balloon flown by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (Nadar) Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of the hot air balloon Le Géant (The Giant) flown by French photographer and journalist Gas... More

Oxygen Monitor for Hyperbaric Chambers crop 405s9646

Oxygen Monitor for Hyperbaric Chambers crop 405s9646

Oxygen Monitor for Hyperbaric Chambers The MINOS oxygen and carbon dioxide monitors were first developed in 1968 and monitored atmospheric conditions in diving habitats, vehicles, and pressure chambers. Publi... More

Postcard - Institut Pasteur - Salle des Cours 2000 001 085 g158bh40z

Postcard - Institut Pasteur - Salle des Cours 2000 001 085 g158bh40z

Postcard - Institut Pasteur - Salle des Cours Pasteur Institute - Classroom, circa 1920 Postcard depicts three men and one woman working in a laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris

The chemistry of abundance 2008 064 020b 4q77fr98f

The chemistry of abundance 2008 064 020b 4q77fr98f

Advertisement: The Chemistry of Abundance (1939) Print advertisement for Dow Chemical Company depicts a holiday scene with a Christmas tree at the center of a bustling town square. People surround the tree, as ... More

Lloyd Quarterman ebony February 1949 p28

Lloyd Quarterman ebony February 1949 p28

Photograph of Lloyd A. Quarterman from "Atom Scientists: Ten Negro Scientists at Argonne Lab Help in Race to Harness Atomic Materials”, Ebony magazine, September 1949, pp. 26-28. Copyright not renewed. The c... More

THC 2003.902.087 J. G. Thompson Ammonia Catalyst Fusion Pot

THC 2003.902.087 J. G. Thompson Ammonia Catalyst Fusion Pot

J. G. Thompson working with an ammonia catalyst fusion pot.

THC 2003.902.117 Charging the Experimental Blast Furnace

THC 2003.902.117 Charging the Experimental Blast Furnace

Mr. Royster (left) and Mr. Hignett charging the experimental blast furnace

THC 2003.902.311 Gae Bennett

THC 2003.902.311 Gae Bennett

Portrait of agricultural economist Gae Adamson Bennett (b. 1917). While working for the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, Bennett co-authored numerous volumes on agricultural pr... More

1801 Luftballon piloted by Adler 2013.044 crop

1801 Luftballon piloted by Adler 2013.044 crop

Lithograph captioned "Neueste Erfindung einen Luftballon durch Adler zu regieren 1801", translates as "Newest invention - an air balloon being piloted by eagles 1801". Blue and yellow striped air balloon being... More

2015.028.029 Bessemer converter in action blowing iron into steel

2015.028.029 Bessemer converter in action blowing iron into steel

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 5 - Making iron and steel by several processes, Image 29 - Bessemer converter in action blowing iron into steel. These stereographs were cr... More

2015.028.038 Billet blooms for rails being further compressed and lengthened in rolling mill

2015.028.038 Billet blooms for rails being further compressed and leng...

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 6 - Rolling mills for steel, Image 38 - Billet blooms for rails being further compressed and lengthened in rolling mill. These stereographs... More

Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer back cover crop Cary Model 11 Recording Spectrophotometer

Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer back cover crop Cary Model 1...

Cary Model 11 Recording Spectrophotometer from Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer (Bulletin 114-A.) Monrovia, California: Cary Instruments / Applied Physics Corporation, [1960], back cover. Note: The da... More

Periodic table in the style of a space lemniscate william crookes slide

Periodic table in the style of a space lemniscate william crookes slid...

Periodic table in the style of a space lemniscate Dates to 1898 (Original design by Sir William Crookes (1832-1919)) Slide circa 1957 (Date attributed to slide based on publication in Edward G. Mazurs Types of ... More

Bakelite color chart 1924 Gifts to Treasure Embed Art Company Jewel only

Bakelite color chart 1924 Gifts to Treasure Embed Art Company Jewel on...

Bakelite Color Chart, showing "Bakelite Pearl Colors" (pink, yellow, pale pink, green, white and purple) and "New Bakelite Jewel Quality Colors" (various yellows, ambers, red, greens, orange, mottled). Origin... More

Florence E. Wall receiving Medal December 13, 1956

Florence E. Wall receiving Medal December 13, 1956

Photograph of Florence E. Wall (left) in the article "The Ninth Medal Award, December 13, 1956" in Journal of Cosmetic Science, Vol. 8, No. 3, published January 1958, p. 158. Wall was the first woman to receiv... More

THC 2003.902.017 Sebastian Karrer Measuring Thermal Conductivity

THC 2003.902.017 Sebastian Karrer Measuring Thermal Conductivity

Sebastian Karrer demonstrating the measurement of the thermal conductivity of active nitrogen at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory. [1]

THC 2003.902.032 Thermostated Agitating Device

THC 2003.902.032 Thermostated Agitating Device

Thermostated-agitating device with all-glass system

2015.028.028 Making a bottom for a Bessemer Converter showing gas blast tubes

2015.028.028 Making a bottom for a Bessemer Converter showing gas blas...

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 5 - Making iron and steel by several processes, Image 28 - Making a bottom for a Bessemer Converter showing gas blast tubes. These stereogr... More

Beckman Manual 1954 Figure 1. Model DU Spectrophotometer 2012-002 b104f197 007

Beckman Manual 1954 Figure 1. Model DU Spectrophotometer 2012-002 b104...

Figure 1. Model DU Spectrophotometer - Exploded View from Beckman Instruments Instruction Manual / The Beckman Model DU Spectrophotometer and Accessories Beckman Division, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Fullerton, C... More

Parachute de andré vd66w080j 0 sb397951k

Parachute de andré vd66w080j 0 sb397951k

Parachute of André-Jacques Garnerin Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of the descent of French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin (1769-1823) in a frameless parachute of his own design. The O... More

Justus Liebig 1850 Zur Beurtheilung der Selbstverbrennungen

Justus Liebig 1850 Zur Beurtheilung der Selbstverbrennungen

Title page from Zur Beurtheilung der Selbstverbrennungen des menschlichen Körpers. / von Justus Liebig. Heidelberg : C.F. Winter, 1850. Organic chemist Justus Liebig in 1847, when he was called in as an exper... More

THC 2003.902.036 Determining Hygroscopicity

THC 2003.902.036 Determining Hygroscopicity

Apparatus for the determination of the hygroscopicity of fertilizer materials and mixtures at Arlington Farm, VA.

THC 2003.902.104 Mrs. M. K. Murray Nitrometer

THC 2003.902.104 Mrs. M. K. Murray Nitrometer

Mrs. M. K. Murray demonstrating a nitrometer in the laboratory.

THC 2003.902.299 Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory Group Photo

THC 2003.902.299 Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory Group Photo

Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory Group Photo, see Lit. from 1939 Top row: ? C. W. Whittaker, Louise Gardner, J. R. Adams, ? F. O. Lundstrom, Lola Shupe Dunning, W. L. Hill, Lewis Rader Jr., ? J. O. Hardesty,... More

2015.028.032 Down the line of furnaces in open hearth mill charging a furnace with molten iron

2015.028.032 Down the line of furnaces in open hearth mill charging a ...

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 5 - Making iron and steel by several processes, Image 32 - Down the line of furnaces in open hearth mill charging a furnace with molten iron... More

2015.028.034 100-ton capacity ladle of liquid steel from open hearth furnace pouring into ladle

2015.028.034 100-ton capacity ladle of liquid steel from open hearth f...

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 5 - Making iron and steel by several processes, Image 34 - 100-ton capacity ladle of liquid steel from open hearth furnace pouring into ladl... More

2015.028.046 Rotary dryer for drying salt Hutchinson Kansas

2015.028.046 Rotary dryer for drying salt Hutchinson Kansas

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 7 - Salt-making, Image 46 - Rotary dryer for drying salt Hutchinson Kansas. These stereographs were created and sold as a set for education... More

Adolf von Baeyer ca,1884 2003 900 090 9c67wm92k

Adolf von Baeyer ca,1884 2003 900 090 9c67wm92k

Portrait of Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917) circa 1884.

Beckman D2 Oxygen analyzer and patient 2012 002 5132 cn69m4659

Beckman D2 Oxygen analyzer and patient 2012 002 5132 cn69m4659

D2 Oxygen Analyzer for Safe Oxygen Therapy, in use with patient who is wearing an oxygen mask connected to tubes and to the analyzer. Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Bec... More

Cermets 1 Steatite Ingredients Being Weighed 2012 002 5979

Cermets 1 Steatite Ingredients Being Weighed 2012 002 5979

1. Steatite, the ceramic composition used as a base for the Helitrim trimming potentiometer elements, is prepared in specially constructed, temperature-controlled rooms. Quality raw materials (high purity talc... More

Cermets 3 Steatite Chip Pressing 2012 002 5979

Cermets 3 Steatite Chip Pressing 2012 002 5979

3. Granulated steatite is compressed into substrate form by high-speed presses. These machines automatically fill the die cavity with a predetermined amount of powder and under regulated pressure (1 to 40 tons... More

Cermets 8 Final Assembly testing cermet elements for potentiometers 2012 002 5979

Cermets 8 Final Assembly testing cermet elements for potentiometers 20...

8. Prior to final assembly, cermet elements are cleaned in ultrasonic tanks and subjected to a special aging process. This process provides further assurance against extreme stresses in operational environment... More

Dirigeable zeppelin allem sf2686192 0 zc77sr237

Dirigeable zeppelin allem sf2686192 0 zc77sr237

Zeppelin Airship (Germany) Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a German Zeppelin rigid-style military airship. This postcard is part of a set originally collected in a scrapbook entitled ... More

National Inking Appliance Company original building pasadena 5x21tf694

National Inking Appliance Company original building pasadena 5x21tf694

Pasadena garage, original site of National Inking Appliance Company (later to become National Technical Laboratories) This garage was the first location of the National Inking Appliance Company, founded by the... More

Detail 1 of 2 City of Hope Convention opening at Ambassador Hotel 1953

Detail 1 of 2 City of Hope Convention opening at Ambassador Hotel 1953

Photograph of Samuel H. Golter (1890-1971), Executive Director of City of Hope, left, and Victor M. Carter (City of Hope President), right, at the City of Hope Convention opening at the Ambassador Hotel, 5 Jul... More

Eleanor Vadala 1953, History of the Rittenhouse Astronomy Society

Eleanor Vadala 1953, History of the Rittenhouse Astronomy Society

Photograph of Eleanor Vadala, dated 1953, from Billings, Cecil M. (1959). History of the Rittenhouse Astronomy Society, 1888 – 1960. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Rittenhouse Astronomy Society. Copyright not renewed.

2015.028.048 A reservoir after evaporation – turning up the salt – salt fields Solinen Russia (cropped and retouched)

2015.028.048 A reservoir after evaporation – turning up the salt – sal...

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 7 - Salt-making, Image 48 - A reservoir after evaporation – turning up the salt – salt fields Solinen Russia. These stereographs were crea... More

Henry G. Knight 2003 902 306 cv43nx15d

Henry G. Knight 2003 902 306 cv43nx15d

“Portrait of Henry G. Knight”, United States Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. Travis P. Hignett Collection of Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory Photographs, Box 3. Science History Institute. Philadelphia.

THC 2003.902.019 E. C. White Apparatus for Analysis

THC 2003.902.019 E. C. White Apparatus for Analysis

E. C. White demonstrating the use of an apparatus for the automatic analysis and indication of the carbon monoxide content of a gas stream.

THC 2003.902.040 J. E. Reuter Instrument Making Shop

THC 2003.902.040 J. E. Reuter Instrument Making Shop

J. E. Reuter in the machine shop at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, where the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory's laboratory instruments were created.

THC 2003.902.070 Silica Gel Adsorber for NO2

THC 2003.902.070 Silica Gel Adsorber for NO2

Silica Gel Adsorber for Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)

2015.028.003 Cutting a carboy from blow-pipe after leaving mould

2015.028.003 Cutting a carboy from blow-pipe after leaving mould

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 1 - Making 12-gallon glass carboys. Glass Works, N.J., Image 3 - Cutting a carboy from blow-pipe after leaving mould. These stereographs we... More

2015.028.008 Checking off cylinder after being drawn full length

2015.028.008 Checking off cylinder after being drawn full length

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 2 - Making glass sheets from cylinders, Image 8 - Checking off cylinder after being drawn full length. These stereographs were created and ... More

2015.028.048 A reservoir after evaporation – turning up the salt – salt fields Solinen Russia

2015.028.048 A reservoir after evaporation – turning up the salt – sal...

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 7 - Salt-making, Image 48 - A reservoir after evaporation – turning up the salt – salt fields Solinen Russia. These stereographs were create... More

Beckman instruments incorp 8049g5371

Beckman instruments incorp 8049g5371

Photograph of Beckman physiological and cardiovascular monitoring system, from Beckman Instruments, Incorporated – Locator #19 – Gemini Physiological & Cardiovascular Monitoring System This cardiovascular refle... More

Dorothy Locke Production of blasting caps 2012 017 b2f37 x346d4806

Dorothy Locke Production of blasting caps 2012 017 b2f37 x346d4806

Close-up view of employee Dorothy Locke setting lead wires in a mold, part of the assembly line production of electric blasting caps, at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. During the prod... More

Insertion of plug and bridge wire into electric blasting caps 2012 017 b2f37 8623hz26t

Insertion of plug and bridge wire into electric blasting caps 2012 017...

General view of employee Emily Port inserting plugs and bridge wires into the shells of electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of... More

Le pax dirigeable rj4305541 0 2v23vv61m

Le pax dirigeable rj4305541 0 2v23vv61m

The Pax Airship of Augusto Sévéro, which caused his death Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of the semi-rigid airship "Pax" flown by Brazilian aeronaut Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão... More

Man using a Beckman-Spinco Protein-Peptide Sequencer bg257f292

Man using a Beckman-Spinco Protein-Peptide Sequencer bg257f292

Product Line Manager John Deutschlander displays the Model 890 Protein-Peptide Sequencer. The instrument was capable of separating individual amino acids from protein 12 to 15 times faster than could be accompl... More

Salzernte in Solinen, Russland

Salzernte in Solinen, Russland

A reservoir after evaporation – turning up the salt – salt fields Solinen Russia. According to a similar publication by the same publisher,[1] these salt fields were located at the coast of the Black Sea in the... More

Samuel H Golter City of Hope Convention opening at Ambassador Hotel 1953

Samuel H Golter City of Hope Convention opening at Ambassador Hotel 19...

Photograph of Samuel H. Golter (1890-1971), Executive Director of City of Hope, at the City of Hope Convention opening at the Ambassador Hotel, 5 July 1953. Detail from File:Detail 1 of 2 City of Hope Conventi... More

Charles Lathrop Parsons signature

Charles Lathrop Parsons signature

Signature of Charles Lathrop Parsons from the book: Downs, Winfield Scott, editor (1936). Encyclopedia of American biography: New series. 5. New York: American Historical Company. pp. 286–287. No copyright ... More

Charles Lathrop Parsons

Charles Lathrop Parsons

Photograph of Charles Lathrop Parsons from the book: Downs, Winfield Scott, editor (1936). Encyclopedia of American biography: New series. 5. New York: American Historical Company. pp. 286–287. No copyrigh... More

Eugene Houdry Fench Passport photo 1919 98-16 Personal 001

Eugene Houdry Fench Passport photo 1919 98-16 Personal 001

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carl Axel Arrhenius crop

Carl Axel Arrhenius crop

A lithograph portrait of Carl Axel Arrhenius, dressed in uniform Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions ima... More

Michel Eugène Chevreul 1863 Considerations sur la philosophie

Michel Eugène Chevreul 1863 Considerations sur la philosophie

Title page from Considérations sur la philosophie et applications à la médecine d'une méthode employée à rechercher la cause des différences que présentent les eaux naturelles dont on fait usage en teinture. ... More

Katharine S. Love PP 2003.902.128

Katharine S. Love PP 2003.902.128

E. J. Fox and Katharine S. Love, Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, Nitrogen Analytical Laboratory Fox is seated to the left; Love is standing to the right behind a laboratory workbench and blowing into a pie... More

THC 2003.902.052 Electrolytic Cells for Hydrogen Production

THC 2003.902.052 Electrolytic Cells for Hydrogen Production

Electrolytic cells for production of hydrogen

1906 - An old photo of a building with a lot of cars parked in front of it
2015.028.025 Cooling the pigs in the sand moulds

2015.028.025 Cooling the pigs in the sand moulds

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 5 - Making iron and steel by several processes, Image 25 - Cooling the pigs in the sand moulds. These stereographs were created and sold as... More

2015.028.039 Rolling slab into thin plate in Homestead Mill 4th stage in plate making

2015.028.039 Rolling slab into thin plate in Homestead Mill 4th stage ...

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 6 - Rolling mills for steel, Image 39 - Rolling slab into thin plate in Homestead Mill 4th stage in plate making. These stereographs were c... More

2015.028.041 Removing steel plate from great cutting machine front view

2015.028.041 Removing steel plate from great cutting machine front vie...

Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries, Set 6 - Rolling mills for steel, Image 41 - Removing steel plate from great cutting machine front view. These stereographs were created and sol... More

Bulletin CS-632 Hypoxia warning system p3 2012 002 5253 w6634419k

Bulletin CS-632 Hypoxia warning system p3 2012 002 5253 w6634419k

Pamphlet: Bulletin CS-632 Hypoxia warning system for monitoring partial pressure of oxygen in artificial atmospheric environments, Illustration, p. 3. The brochure describes the operation, application, and spec... More

Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer back cover crop Cary Model 41 Calorimeter

Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer back cover crop Cary Model 4...

Cary Model 41 Calorimeter from Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer (Bulletin 114-A.) Monrovia, California: Cary Instruments / Applied Physics Corporation, [1960], back cover. Note: The date of 1960 is ba... More

Cary+Beckman 1941 original of Fig 7 disassembled Quartz photoelectric spectrophotometer 2012-002 b17f20 003 crop

Cary+Beckman 1941 original of Fig 7 disassembled Quartz photoelectric ...

Original photograph used for Figure 7. View of spectrophotometer showing disassembled absorption cell and photo-tube compartment from from Cary, H. H.; Beckman, Arnold O. (1941). "A Quartz Photoelectric Spect... More

Charles Phelps Smyth 1954 The Indicator a93.02.035

Charles Phelps Smyth 1954 The Indicator a93.02.035

Photograph of Charles Phelps Smyth from the cover of The Indicator, magazine of the American Chemical Society, Volume XXV, No. 3, March 1954. Copyright not renewed. The caption reads: "Charles Phelps Smyth -... More

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