Science History

A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active dates of Ha More

A black and white photo of two men sitting at a desk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active d More

Populärvetenskapliga Institutet Urania på Narvavägen 31 i Stockholm. Utrustning för röntgen- och teslaförsök.

Ingenjör Oscar Larssons samling av fysikaliska apparater, en föregångare till Populärvetenslapliga Institutet Urania på Narvavägen 31 i Stockholm. Apparater för demonstration av statisk elektricitet.

Ingenjör O Larssons samling av fysikaliska apparater, en föregångare till Populärvetenslapliga Institutet Urania på Narvavägen 31 i Stockholm. Mikroskop och apparater för demonstrationer med flytande luft.

Populärvetenslapliga Institutet Urania på Narvavägen 31 i Stockholm. Interiör från sal 1.

Populärvetenslapliga Institutet Urania på Narvavägen 31 i Stockholm. Luftpumpagregat för evacuering av röntgen och geisselrör samt skyltbokstäver för högfrekventa strömmar mm. Elektriskt ur av Ingenjör Oscar La More

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201207-00397.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

William Carpenter (29 October 1813 – 10 November 1885)

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

John Walter Gregory, Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society: geologist, geographer and explorer. He conducted the first scientific expedition to Mount Kenya. From 1900-1904 he was Professor of Geology and Miner More

Prospectors climbing Chilkoot pass 1898

Sara Jeannette Duncan Title: Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada : (Volume 1) Creator: Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James), 1842-1913 Publisher: Toronto : W. Briggs Date: More

New York botanical garden map

New York botanical garden forest Public domain photograph of botanical garden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York botanical garden meadows Public domain photograph of botanical garden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York botanical garden waterfall Public domain photograph of botanical garden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York botanical garden herbaceous plantation Public domain photograph of botanical garden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York botanical garden horticultural houses Public domain photograph of botanical garden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cinchona Jamaica tropical station of the N.Y. Botanical Garden Public domain photograph of botanical garden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cinchona Jamaica tropical station laboratory Public domain scan of drawing, 20th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cinchona Jamaica tropical station laboratory Public domain scan of drawing, 20th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seed and seedlings in the New York botanical gardens Public domain scan of drawing, 20th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seed plants of Crataegus in the Arnold arboretum Public domain scan of drawing, 20th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oenothera cultures in the New York botanical gardens Public domain scan of drawing, 20th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lyon Playfair (1818 - 1898)

French military officer and writer Albert de Rochas d'Aiglun (1837-1914)

French writer Paul Cunisset-Carnot (1849-1919)

French writer Louis Figuier (1819-1894)

French phsyician and criminologist Alexandre Lacassagne (1843-1924)

American anthropologist George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947).

French historian Gabriel Monod (1844-1912)

Representation of Ptolemy.Previously published in Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins, et payens recueilliz de leurs tableaux livres et medalles antiques, et modernes. Par Andre Thev More

Dr. Felix Adler, Chairman, National Child Labor Comittee. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3479. No date or location recorded on caption card; 1913 estimate based on ca More

Photograph of the damaged superstructure of the HMS Vindictive following the Zeebrugge raid.

Dr Edward Atkinson in his lab, during the Terra Nova Expedition 1910-1913 under command of Robert Falcon Scott

Advertisement for Erector Set toy 1922

George Mercer Dawson, Assistant Director, Geological Survey of Canada Public domain photograph of Canadian male portrait, 19th century personalities, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alleged yeti footprints at the Himalayas found by Frank Smythe in 1937. Photograph was printed in Popular Science, 1952. The footprints were alleged to be from a yeti but were examined by experts and found indi More

A.C. Spark Plugs, selected for the super-powered Buick XP-300

Archie Baxter Flying School in Popular Science magazine on November 1, 1940

Bernard Tussaud heats a glass eye for Prime Minister Clement Attlee, 1951

Bernard Tussaud tidies up figure of his great-great grandmother, Madame Tussaud, who made this replica of herself

Captain Willis Heath Proctor Finds Old Santa Fe Trail, 1950

Chapman Chinchillas ad, 1952

Dr. Karl T. Compton, 1951

Flying Tanks War's Deadliest Weapon, B. G. Seielstad, Popular Science Monthly, July 1932

Go Cushman this year, 1952

Magician Harry Houdini demonstrating a cigarette paper trick Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful magicians More

Magician Harry Houdini and colleagues at his laboratory in New Jersey making experimental apparatus for his stage work. Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 187 More

Magician Harry Houdini demonstrating how fake spirit hands can be made. Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful More

Hastings steel-vent piston rings, 1952

Highway of the future illustration by Benjamin Goodwin Seielstad, Popular Science, May 1938, p. 28.

How The World Will End Popular Science Monthly, September 1939, p. 59 by B.G. Seielstad

How The World Will End Popular Science Monthly, September 1939, p. 59 by B.G. Seielstad

How The World Will End Popular Science Monthly, September 1939, p. 59 by B.G. Seielstad

How The World Will End? Popular Science Monthly, September 1939, p. 59. One of the illustrations by B.G. Seielstad

I Want Every Reader ... big new Sensation Tomato, 1950

Kukla and Fran Allison, 1950

Photograph of Lois Graham a.k.a. Lois G. McDowell with caption: "A WOMAN ENGINEER"

National Company - Kon-Tiki radio, 1952

No longer considered famous enough to rate a figure in Tussaud's

Ad for Camel cigarettes with Jack Ford, the engineer of the Burlington Pioneer Zephyr's record-breaking Denver to Chicago run and the Pioneer Zephyr. Ford is shown as the train arrived at the Burlington's Cent More

Cutaway drawing of a pocketwatch movement.

Article, describing vertical-axis wind turbine. U.S. patent number:  2005470Issue date:  Jun 18, 1935Inventor:  Olof K. Olson, Kansas City, Missouri.

Popular Science Apr 1934 Public domain image of a passenger ship, ocean liner, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Popular Science April 1934, p. 37 Public domain image of a passenger ship, ocean liner, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sensationally NEW for 1952! Midwest Television

1930 photograph from the magazine Popular Science with the caption, "The new electric bread slicing machine at work in a St. Louis, Mo. bakery. The operator is holding one of the sliced loaves." The accompany More

Treelike buildings by B. G. Seielstad, Popular Science Monthly, April 1934, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/imagining-a-city-of-treelike-buildings-98862841/

Web Truss Co. ad, 1952

You get more for your money when you buy a Harley-Davidson. (1952 Harley-Davidson Hydra-Glide

A train schedule designed by Ibry and published by Étienne-Jules Marey in his book on data visualizations: La Méthode Graphique Dans les Sciences Expérimentales et Principalement en Physiologie et en Médecine

Cover of the October 1920 issue of Popular Science magazine, painted by American illustrator Norman Rockwell. It depicts an inventor working on a perpetual motion machine. The device shown is a "mass levera More

Cover of the February 1920 issue of Popular Science magazine.

Cover of the April 1920 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the June 1920 issue of Popular Science magazine.

Cover of the July 1920 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the September 1920 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain photograph - car advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the December 1920 issue of Popular Science magazine.

Cover of the January 1921 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the February 1921 issue of Popular Science magazine.

Cover of the March 1921 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the May 1921 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the June 1921 issue of Popular Science magazine.

Cover of the July 1921 issue of Popular Science magazine.

Cover of the December 1921 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the August 1922 issue of Popular Science magazine.

Cover of the September 1922 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the October 1922 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the November 1922 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of the December 1922 issue of Popular Science magazine. Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of Popular Science, January 1920

Cover of Popular Science, July 1922

Cover of Popular Science, November 1920

Cover of Popular Science, November 1921

Cover of Popular Science, September 1920

The first issue of Scientific Monthly, October 1915. It had previously been published as Popular Science Monthly since May 1872. Scientific Monthly was published until 1958. The title, Popular Science Monthly More

Baseball player Allen Sothoron. Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cover of Popular Science, April 1923