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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Scientific laboratory, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Scientific laboratory, color separation negat...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about ... More

[Illustrations of experiments proving air is a compressed substance and title page]

[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 intended to create a vacuum by draining water from a globe attached to the top of the apparatus]

[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

Apothecary card - Print, Library of Congress collection

Apothecary card - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a blank apothecary card with "Aesculapius" on the left and "Hebe" on the right flanking a large blank space, at top center is a mortar and pestle surrounded by flower blossoms, with various types of... More

[One-legged man on crutches and instrument, with clock above reading 12:00, at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.] / copyrighted and photographed by Waldon Fawcett.

[One-legged man on crutches and instrument, with clock above reading 1...

H50281 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Recherches sur les generations dites spontanees / N. Remond, imp. r. Vieille-Estrapade, Paris.

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

[Diagram of interferometer and four mirrors mounted on stone floating in mercury, which disproved existence of luminiferous ether and its role in the transmission of eletromagnetic waves; with surrounding text]

[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

[Garden with people and apparatus for distilling a plant's medicinal essences]

[Garden with people and apparatus for distilling a plant's medicinal e...

Frontispiece in: Kleines Distillierbuch / Hieronymous Brunschig. Strassburg : J. Gruniger, 1500. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 179.

[Legs of dissected frogs, and various metallic apparatus used to measure what was thought to be electricity flowing in animals]

[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

[Composite of astronomy equipment and components] / Henry Winkles sculpt.

[Composite of astronomy equipment and components] / Henry Winkles scul...

Illus. in: Iconographic encyclopedia / Heck. 1851, v. 1, plate 15. Reference copy in LOT 7007.

[Scientific equipment used by Dr. Davis of Columbia University and Prof. Edwards of Trinity College in their experiment at Columbia, combining oxygen and hydrogen under the influence of radium]

[Scientific equipment used by Dr. Davis of Columbia University and Pro...

H51266 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by L.V. Case. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prokudin Gorskii: [Scientific laboratory]. Color separation negative

Prokudin Gorskii: [Scientific laboratory]. Color separation negative

Public domain photograph of building interior, office, room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prokudin Gorskii: [Scientific laboratory]. Color separation negative

Prokudin Gorskii: [Scientific laboratory]. Color separation negative

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Scientific apparatus used by Lavoisier in studying chemical reactions in combustion of substances, including mercury, top right] / Paulze Lavoisier, sculpt.

[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.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Scientific laboratory, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Scientific laboratory, color separation negat...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about ... More

[A horizontal sundial]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

[A horizontal sundial]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: Orontii Finei Delphinatis, regii mathematicarvm professoris, De solaribus horologiis, & quadrantibus, libri quatuor. Sequens pagina summa librorum capita tibi expediet. Parisiis : apud Gulielmum Cau... More

The Nilometer (measurer of inundations), Island of Elephantine, first cataract, Egypt

The Nilometer (measurer of inundations), Island of Elephantine, first ...

Stereograph shows girls sitting atop Nilometer as a boy and man walk through it. H48174 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 86.

Scientific researches! - New discoveries in pneumaticks! - or - An experimental lecture on the powers of air / /Js. Gillray inv. & fect., British Cartoon Print

Scientific researches! - New discoveries in pneumaticks! - or - An exp...

A satire on the fashionable lectures at the Royal Institution, showing Thomas Young(?), doing an experiment, holding Sir J.C. Hippisley by his nose, and applying to his mouth a tube from an apparatus in which a... More

[Diagrams of various electrical phenomena and title page of Experiments and observations on electricity]

[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

Miscellaneous. Boy at work on coil.

Miscellaneous. Boy at work on coil.

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Man on ship comparing temperature of the surface of the sea and the air in various parts of the world] / E. Gulland ; Pearson, sc.

[Man on ship comparing temperature of the surface of the sea and the a...

Illus. in: Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876 ..., narrative, vol. 1, second part. Longmans & Co. ..., 1885, diagram 22, p. 1003. Reference copy also... More

[Child standing on snow gauge of the Weather Bureau]

[Child standing on snow gauge of the Weather Bureau]

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 3375.

The Detroit news timely topics.  Fused quartz

The Detroit news timely topics. Fused quartz

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yards for analysing solutions of metals used in locomotives and the railroad plant, in general, Chicago, Ill.

Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yards ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train, railroad, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scientific researches! - New discoveries in pneumaticks! - or - An experimental lecture on the powers of air / /Js. Gillray inv. & fect., British Cartoon Print

Scientific researches! - New discoveries in pneumaticks! - or - An exp...

A satire on the fashionable lectures at the Royal Institution, showing Thomas Young(?), doing an experiment, holding Sir J.C. Hippisley by his nose, and applying to his mouth a tube from an apparatus in which a... More

[A folding, pocket-sized sundial]

[A folding, pocket-sized sundial]

Illus. in: Rvdimenta mathematica, haec in duos digeruntur libros, quorum prior geometriae tradit principia seu prima elementa .... [Basileae : In officina H. Petri, 1551]. Published in: The tradition of techno... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Scientific laboratory, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Scientific laboratory, color separation negat...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about ... More

Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's, 40th Street yards for analysing solutions of metals used in locomotives and the railroad plant, in general, Chicago, Ill

Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and N...

Identification of 40th Street shops confirmed by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-1. Transfer from U.S. O... More

Design drawing for allegory, also sketch of waterfront cityscape

Design drawing for allegory, also sketch of waterfront cityscape

Drawing shows a three panel allegorical scene with American Indians at left looking across lake with a canoe, toward buffaloes grazing on the Great Plains above which rise the Rocky Mountains, a Native woman si... More

The Detroit news timely topics. Fused quartz

The Detroit news timely topics. Fused quartz

Photograph of a photographic print by "Keystone View Photo." Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 3180. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Alchemist and assistant in laboratory, with surrounding border of birds, flowers, and insects]

[Alchemist and assistant in laboratory, with surrounding border of bir...

Chapter frontispiece in: Theatrum chemicum britannicum / Elias Ashmole. London : Printed by F. Grismund for N. Brooke, 1652. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library... More

Design drawing for allegory, also sketch of waterfront cityscape

Design drawing for allegory, also sketch of waterfront cityscape

Drawing shows a three panel allegorical scene with American Indians at left looking across lake with a canoe, toward buffaloes grazing on the Great Plains above which rise the Rocky Mountains, a Native woman si... More

Prokudin Gorskii: [Scientific laboratory]. Color separation negative

Prokudin Gorskii: [Scientific laboratory]. Color separation negative

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miscellaneous. Boy at work on coil

Miscellaneous. Boy at work on coil

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 5020. No location or date recorded on caption card; date based on captions for photos with preceding numb... More