[Roger bacon conducting an experiment], engraving, Library of Congress
Illus. in: Symbola avreæ mensæ dvodecim nationvm. Francofvrti : typis A. Hummij, impensis Lucæ Iennis, 1617. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. ... More
Figures du traite de la pesanteur de l'air
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Two Glass Containers for Scientific Experiments with Liquids (Illustra...
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[Air pump and glass receptacle demonstrating that a small animal will ...
Illus. in: A continuation of New experiments, physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects ... / By the Honourable Robert Boyle. Oxford : Printed by H. Hall, for R. Davis, 1... More
[Eight-foot mercury barometer and water pumping demonstration from fou...
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[Teams of horses trying unsuccessfully to pull apart vacuum-filled cop...
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[Man pointing to glass globe during experiment demonstrating the force...
Illus. in: Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) magdeburgica de vacuo spatio primùm à R.P. Gaspare Schotto ... nunc verò ab ipso auctore perfectiùs edita, variisque aliis experimentis aucta. Amst... More
[Santorio Santorio seated in weighing chair in front of table, part of...
Frontispiece and title page in: De statica medicina aphorismorum / Santorio Santorio. Lungduni Batavorum : Apud C. Boutesteyn, 1703. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. :... More
[Tubes containing mercury with vacuum at top showing development of fi...
Illus. in: Lezioni accademiche d'Evangelista Torricelli, mattematico e filosofo del Sereniso. Firenze : Nella stamp. di S.A.R. per J. Guiducci, e S. Franchi, 1715. Published in: The tradition of technology : L... More
[Three trees undergoing plant physiology experiments, including demons...
Illus. in: Vegetable staticks / Stephen Hales. London : W. and J. Innys, 1727, plate 5, p. 88. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 63.
[Diagrams of various electrical phenomena and title page of Experiment...
Frontispiece and title page in: Experiments and observations of electricity / Benjamin Franklin. London : Printed for F. Newbery, 1774. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C... More
[Title page of Experiments upon vegetables]
Title page in: Experiments upon vegetables / Jan Ingenhousz. London : Printed for P. Elmsley and H. Payne, 1779. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress... More
[Scientific apparatus used by Lavoisier in studying chemical reactions...
Illus. in: Traite elementaire de chimie / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Paris : Cuchet, 1789, plate 4. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 187.
[Legs of dissected frogs, and various metallic apparatus used to measu...
Illus. in: Abhandlung uber die Krafte der thiereschen Elektrizitat auf die Bewegung der Muskeln / Luigi Galvani. Eine Uebersetztung, Prag. : J.G. Calve, 1793. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C.... More
Experiments at Dover or Master Charley's Magic Lanthorn
Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More
Lancasterian institute. Having succeeded, by a series of long-continue...
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[Apparatus used to convert electrical energy into mechanical rotation,...
Illus. in: Experimental researches in electricity / Michael Faraday. London : R. and J.E. Taylor, 1839-1855, v. 2, pl. 4. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of... More
[Illustrations of experiments proving air is a compressed substance an...
Frontispiece and title page in: Experiments and observations on different kinds of air / Joseph Priestley. 3 vols. London : J. Johnson, 1774-1777. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Wash... More
[Exterior view of building with apparatus attached for experiment inte...
Illus. in: P. Gasparis Schotti ... Technica curiosa, sive Mirabilia artis, libris XII comprehensa .... Norimbergæ : Sumptibus J. A. Endteri, & Wolfgangi junioris hæredum, excudebat J. Hertz, typographus herbip... More
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Dynometer for fan experiments - Public domain drawing
Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
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Experiments on the tight rope - Political cartoon, public domain image
A figurative portrayal of Whig candidate Winfield Scott's failure in the 1852 presidential contest, attributed by the artist to his alliance with abolitionist interests. Scott is hoisted aloft via a pulley sys... More
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Alphonse Legros - L'expérience d'électricité (Litho)
An old professor, surrounded by his pupils, does experiments with electricity on a corpse. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Gen. Butler's experiments with the Sawyer rifled cannon. . .
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Recherches sur les generations dites spontanees / N. Remond, imp. r. V...
Experiment showing that microbes responsible for decay and fermentation are in the air and not the decaying matter. Illus. in: Memoire sur les corpuscles ... / Louis Pasteur. In Annales des science naturelles, ... More
[Men carrying large barometer prove existence of barometric pressure b...
Illus. in: Les merveilles de la science, ou Description populaire des inventions modernes, / par Louis Figuier. Paris : Furne, Jouvet et cie, [1867]-1870. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks ... More
[Bank note vignettes showing explorers including Christopher Columbus(...
In album: Engravings of the American Banknote Company ... p. 86. Public domain photograph of electric industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Note, 1883 Nov. 29 - Public domain document scan of drawing
Sheet contains drawing of apparatus. Notes on a glass globe into which a carbon tube is stuck onto a wooden base. Oxygen is put into globe when the carbon is made red hot.
Note on experiment with candle, 1884 Nov. 20?
Note detailing experiment with a candle, metal tube and asbestos diaphragm.
Note on broken-point microphone, 1884 March 11
Details experiment using a broken-point microphone.
Note on battery experiment, 1884 Feb. 6
Details experiment with electric battery.
[Diagram of interferometer and four mirrors mounted on stone floating ...
Illus. and text in: On the relative motion of the earth and the luminous aether / Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley. In Philosophical magazine, 5th ser., vol. 24, Dec. 1887, p. 454. Published in: The tra... More
[Newark athlete. motion picture
Experimental film made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film. Film reoriented by Gordon Hendricks. Camera, W.K.L. Dickson and William... More
Note on experiment, 1891 March? 18
Drawing of galvanometer with caption: "Will the heat passing through the cloth cause a current of E through galvanometer?"
[Dickson experimental sound film] /
Experimental sound film made for Edison's kinetophone -- a combination of the kinetoscope and phonograph -- but apparently never distributed. This LC copy is silent. Features two men dancing to a violinist. Sho... More
[Group of young women studying static electricity in normal school, Wa...
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Students in a chemistry class observing others conducting an experime...
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[Students in a chemistry class conducting an experiment, Western High ...
No. 7. In album: "Western High School." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
[Group of young women performing atmospheric pressure experiments whil...
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[Students in a science class conducting experiments, Western High Scho...
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[School children conducting simple experiments, Washington, D.C.]
No. 350. In album: "Public Schools - 7th Division." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
[Students in a chemistry class conducting an experiment, Western High ...
No. 5. In album: "Western High School." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
[View of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, photographed by the Wright brothe...
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[View of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, photographed by the Wright brothe...
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 46. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More
[View of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, photographed by the Wright brothe...
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 46. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More
[View of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, photographed by the Wright brothe...
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 46. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More
Appears before T.V.A. Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 19. Dean Thoma...
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[View of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, which includes the bay, photograp...
Title based on reference print and information in: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p.46. Attributed to Wilbur and/o... More
[Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania Experiments in physics...
Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Schools Classes ca. 1900; Indians Education; Shelf.
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis: experiments in wireless telegraphy
Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Boats...; Telegraph; Artillery; Military education; Pres. I.... More
Glider turning to right, Chanute gliding experiments
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[Page from album of flight experiments at Baddeck, Nova Scotia with sk...
Photo no. 34. In album: Photographs, 1902 (Photographs belonging to Volume IV), page 16, no. 10-1-16. Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library o... More
[Harvey Washington Wiley, looking through optical instrument in labora...
Photo made for article in N.Y. Herald, 1902 May. Harvey W. Wiley Collection.
Telegrams, from November 26, 1903 to November 27, 1903
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Pilot Kevin Kochersberger rides the Experimental Aviation Association'...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kitty Hawk State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Jim Varhegyi, USAF Release Status: Rel... More
Photograph of Boys and Girls Conducting Physics Experiments at the Car...
Exhibit Prints Related to Various Jurisdictions, Tribes, Indian Schools and Activities
[Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer's Experiments in Early Aviation (19...
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