Experiment Collection (page 2)

Diagrams of magnets, magnetic fields, magnetism experiments, etc. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman

The Young Chemist or Young Scientist. 19th century

Piccards Feat - recovery on landing
Aftermath of the ascent by Professor Picard of Brussels University on August 18 1932, by balloon to around 10 1/2 miles, the greatest height achieved by a man at that point

Dr Deijmans Anatomy Lesson
Engraving after a painting by Rembrandt, showing a physician looking in detail at deceased mans brain

Guglielmo Marconi with his Assistants Kemp and Paget, behind is the experiments kite. Date: 12th December 1901

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), Italian inventor and electrical engineer, shown in photograph with his apparatus, after receiving signals at Newfoundland

Transatlantic success, the forest of the telegraph poles at Poldhu Station, Cornwall, from which the first ever wireless message was sent across the Atlantic to Newfoundland. Date: 12th December 1901

Marconis wireless telegraph message, Dover 1899
Guglielmo Marconi, shown here in the photograph with his latest invention, sending a wireless telegraphy from Dover Town Hall to South Foreland Lighthouse, through four miles of cliffs

Douglas DC-6A N6540C (msn 45368, line number 932), of the United States Department of Commerce, attached to the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), Research Flight Facility (RFF)

AEA Aerodrome No. 3 - June Bug
The Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) Aerodrome No.3 June Bug. The Aerial Experiment Association was formed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, with J. A. D. McCurdy (a Canadian), Lt

Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No. 1 Red Wing
Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No.1 - Red Wing, seen on skids at the time of its first flight a frozen lake. The first of a series of experimental powered aircraft designed

A lecture at the London Institution
Dr Syntax attends a scientific lecture at the London Institution. Date: 1820

NOLLET EXPERIMENT 7
The Abbe Nollet demonstrates the electrical conductivity of the human body to a fashionable Paris audience Date: circa 1750

SCHMIDTS RNG EXPERIMENT
HELMUT SCHMIDTs random number generator experiments : a subject at the Institute of Parapsychology, Durham, North Carolina, attempts to predict or affect the RNG display Date: 1960s-1970s

Louis Pasteur in his laboratory
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist, in his laboratory. Date: 1885

ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENT
A man and woman experimenting with an electrical machine Date: 1759

Worlds oldest surviving photograph - Niepce
" Image of Chateau by Nicephore Niepce. He developed heliography, a technique used to produce this image, the worlds oldest surviving photograph in 1825 Date: 1825

A tuberculosis patient being given a direct blood transfusion from a goat, at Dr Simon Bernheims clinic. France, ca. 1891. Engraving

Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745-1827). Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Oil

Advert for Wulfings Formamint tablets 1913
Why you catch sore throats and how to cure and prevent it. Germs from a public telephone in constant use, and railway carriages are favourite breeding grounds

Cleve Backster experimenting on plant sensitivity
Grover Cleveland " Cleve" Backster (b.1924), American scientist, best known for his experiments with biocommunication in plant and animal cells

Experiment with British Mark V tank, WW1
Experimentation with a British Mark V tank, fitted with rope-sprung tracks by Colonel Johnson at Dollis Hill, north west London, during the First World War

Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at sance
Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at a sance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, 8 March 1932. Harry Price and Professor David Fraser-Harris are controlling Schneider

Science Jottings by Dr W. Heath Robinson II
II Testing gold with the uncle magnet at the mint. Typically ridiculous invention by Heath Robinson showing men at the Royal Mint testing gold by holding a pawn brokers sign nearby. Date: 1909

Joseph Wright (1734-1797). An Experiment on a Bird in the Ai
Joseph Wright (1734-1797). Known as Wright of Derby. English painter. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768). Oil-on-canvas. Detail. National Gallery. London. England. UK

Put to the test, 1915
President Woodrow Wilson, U.S.A, " Sakes alive! Seems like I m goin to prove that water is thicker than blood, after all!" Date: 1915

Mrs. Letitia Sage, first Englishwoman to ascend in a balloon
The Parachute or a Sage Ladys Second Experiment. A rather saucy 18th century cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson which depicts Mrs. Letitia Sage, the first Englishwoman to ascend in a balloon. Date: 1785

WW1 - Austrian Scientists at work in Adana, Turkey
A pair of Austrian Scientists working in secrecy in Adana, Turkey during the First Work War. Note the portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Bullock Creeping Grip tractors, tank experiment, WW1
Bullock Creeping Grip tractors coupled together -- a tank experiment during the First World War. Date: circa 1915

Walpurgis Night, showing the spot where the Bloksberg Tryst
Undated copy of illustration of Walpurgis Night, showing the spot where the Bloksberg Tryst was held. HPG/8/2/1 (xli)

John Logie Baird experimenting at home, 1942
Photograph showing John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer, conducting a television experiment at his home in Sydenham Hill, London, 1942

John Logie Baird, with ventriloquists dummy head
John Logie Bairds experiment with transatlantic television. He is pictured here with a ventriloquists dummy head whose image was transmitted from London to New York by wireless

Otto Von Guericke / Worlds
OTTO VON GUERICKE German physicist, famous for his experiment of the Magdeburg hemispheres to demonstrate air pressure

Oersted Experiment 2
Christian Oersted, at the university of Copenhagen, discovers the deviation of a compass needle when subjected to an enclosed electric current

Bell / Tainter / Photophone
Bell and Tainters photophone

Diving experiments in Paris
Testing of various diving equipment in the Seine, Paris, 1855. The technologies included different diving apparatus such as those invented by Siebe, Heinke and Cabirol

Royal Institution Christmas Lecture - H H Turner
Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. A new fairyland opened for children: little girls fanning away the white cloud formed by the pouring of liquid air on to water, at the Royal Institution

Startling Stories - Twice in Time by Stanley G. Weinbaum. A crowd of important figures (including Mona Lisa) stand admiring two giant men

Diorama - Bank of England under Electric Arc Street Lighting
Photograph of a diorama by R. T. Roussel, showing the Bank of England and Royal Exchange illuminated by Electric Arc Street Lighting in 1881 Date: 1881

Splitting the Atom by G. H. Davis
A possible source of unlinited power. Tapping a source of power that may drive all the machinery in the World: Experiments designed to release the forces imprisoned in the atom. Date: 1924

Atoms of which things are made
Sir William Braggs experiments in his opening lecture, concerning the Nature of Things delivered at the Royal Institution. Date: 1924

Radio-controlled tortoise
A woman operates a remote control device for Toddle the tortoise. The aerial picks up a signal and makes the arm holding the lettuce (and Toddle!) swing left or right

Fantastic Adventures - Jewels of the toad
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1943, featuring the story Jewels of the toad by Frank Patton. A young pretty woman in a yellow overall

Spacelab. Full reusable orbital research laboratory
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory used on certain spaceflights flown by the Space Shuttle. The laboratory comprised multiple components, including a pressurized module

Foucault Pendulum. Experiment to demostrate the rotation of the Earth. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

Old Pharmacy laboratoy. Inside. Instrumentals. 1772-1809. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Grand procession to the electric light in New York, 1884. US
Grand procession to the electric light in New York on October 31, 1884. Experiment Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). Colored engraving. USA

Trephination of a rabbit injected with rabies virus to achieve the rabies vaccine. Pasteur Institute. Paris. Colored engraving, 1890

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