Experiment Collection (page 4)

Mooring experiment at the Naval Airship Station, Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness, 2 May 1918

Argands aerostatic experiment at Windsor Castle
Plate showing Argands aerostatic experiment at Windsor Castle. 26 November 1783

Lunardi Balloon
Plate showing Representatn of Mr Lunardi making an Experiment on the Thames of his invention to save persons from drowning

Apparatus from laboratory on board H. M. S. Challenger
Drawing made during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Bee in Dominican amber
A bee, Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Apidae trapped in Dominican amber. This specimen was used to attempt DNA extraction

Experience of globe of the brothers Anne-Jean and Marie-No묠 Robert in the Tuileries Garden (19th September 1784). First hydrogen balloon.. Engraving

GALVANI, Luigi (1737-1798). Italian physicist and doctor. He discovered the principles of bioelectricity. De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari mutinae

Garnerin descending in his parachute, Paris
Garnerin descending in his parachute, with his discarded balloon on the left. Claimed to be the first to descend from a balloon by means of a parachute

Garnerin descending in his parachute, with his discarded balloon on the left. Claimed to be the first human being to descend from a balloon by means of a parachute (animals had previously been used)

Balloons and ballooning scenes

General view of experiment track, background and cameras. Date c1881

Mr. Edward Spencer, born May 8th 1799 who accompanied Mr. Charles Green in that fatal parachute experiment of Mr. Robert Cocking s, July 24th, 1837, from Vauxhall Gardens

Farmers visit US Dry Land Experiment Station near Akron, Colorado. Date 1939 Oct

Benjamin Franklins Experiment, flying a kite in a storm, demonstrating the identity of Lightning and Electricity, from which he invented the Lightning Rod. Date: June 1752

Nollet Experiment 3
Nollet investigates the effects of electricity on living subjects - plants, a cat and a bird. Date: 1754

Experiments with tractors, Burton on Trent, WW1
Experiments with two Creeping Grip or Bullock tractors coupled together at Burton on Trent during the First World War. Date: June 1915

Experimenting with tank tracks, WW1
Experimenting with tank tracks during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1918

Underwater Laboratory
Physicist Brian Ray, testing the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere in Sealab II, Britains first permanent underwater laboratory, 30 feet beneath the waves off Plymouth Date: 1960s

THE BEETLE EXPERIMENT (Russell Hays) The reckless scientist, pursuing knowledge regardless of the consequences, confronts his unintended creation Date: 1929

Dr Tanner Fasting 1880
Dr Tanner of New York fasts for forty days as a scientific experiment. Date: 1880

Guericke at Magdeburg
His celebrated vacuum experiment at Magdeburg : two teams of eight horses each are unable to pull the two hemispheres apart, though only a vacuum holds them together Date: 1650s

Benson Herberts Lab
An experiment in predicting and/or influencing screen imagery, at Benson Herberts Paraphysical Laboratory, Downton [photo 2] Date: 1989

Science lesson, Northfield House School, Leicester
Two boys experimenting with test tubes at Northfield House Junior School, Leicester. Date: 1965

NPL Wind Tunnel Experiment
NPL wind tunnel experiments with a model LNER locomotive. Date: 1932

An experimental monoplane

An experimental Glider

Science classroom, South Wales coalfield
A Science classroom in a school connected to a South Wales coalfield. A schoolteacher supervises a group of well behaved boys who are taking part in various chemical experiments

Bound To Draw
Another well thought out experiment in self dentistry. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Machine for testing wagon springs
The Worlds First Railway Laboratory was set up at Crewe in 1864. One hundred years later, the Duke of Edinburgh opened new engineering research laboratories at Derby

Double photograph of the test counterpoise table
Undated double photograph (ie, two copies of the same picture on one photograph) of the counterpoise table used in Rudi Schneider sances

Undated automatic photograph of a handkerchief leaving a table at a Rudi Schneider sance. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into the mediumistic abilities

Photograph of the infra-red cage at the National Laborator
Photograph of the infra-red " cage" at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, used during the Rudi Schneider experiments, 1932

Teleplasmic hand holding basket at a seance
Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic " hands" or pseudopods, often witnessed at the Rudi Schneider sances, 1929

Harry Price, C. E. M. Joad and Fraulein Urta Bohn
Photograph of Harry Price, C. E. M. Joad and Fraulein Urta Bohn at the preparations for the black magic experiments on the Brocken, 18 June 1932 (the " Brocken Experiment" )

Harry Price and C. E. M. Joad on the Brocken
Photograph of Harry Price and C.E. M. Joad examining the preparations for the reproduction of a magical scene in connection with the Goethe Centenary celebrations on the Brocken, 18 June 1932

Photograph of the automatic electric photographic apparatus
Undated photograph of the automatic electric photographic apparatus used in the Rudi Schneider experiments. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into

Fraulein Urta Bohn
Undated photograph of Fraulein Urta Bohn, who took the past of the " maiden pure in heart" at the black magic experiment conducted by Harry Price on the Brocken

Harry Price and C. E. M. Joad in Gottingen
Undated photograph of Harry Price and C. E. M. Joad standing in front of the " Goose Girl" fountain in Gottingen

Photograph of sentry box apparatus
Photograph of " sentry box" apparatus, with panels 1 and 3 removed, constructed to test the theory that the Czechoslovak vaudeville telepath Fred Marion (a.k.a)

Testing the Czech vaudeville telepath Fred Marion
Photograph of Dr S.E Soal, Ethel Beenham and others testing the Czechoslovak vaudeville telepath Fred Marion (a.k.a. Josef Kraus), 1933

Education, girls, science
A science class for girls. A Bunsen burner is held against a test tube during a class experiment

Cubist experiment
Cubist Experiment, abstract by Raymond Sheppard in the style of cubism

1957 nuclear test: The men who dropped Britains H-bomb
Britains first nuclear weapons test took place on May 15th 1957, when a nuclear device was successfully exploded high in the air over Christmas Island in the Central Pacific

The electric wire at Cape Grinez
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. The image shows a view of Cape Grinez, taking the wire up the cliff

Captain H. Furber, of the 3rd Batt. Welsh Regiment, experiment in dog traction for machine guns

Krippner Experiment 2
A subject in Krippners DREAM TELEPATHY EXPERIMENT at the Maimonides Laboratory, Brooklyn (New York) : EEG and polygraph record her brain and emotional activity

Krippner Experiment 1
Dr Stanley Krippner, at the Maimonides Laboratory, Brooklyn (New York) monitors a DREAM TELEPATHY EXPERIMENT, recording brain activity and reading emotional activity

Krippner Experiment 3
A subject in Krippners DREAM TELEPATHY EXPERIMENT at the Maimonides Laboratory, Brooklyn (New York) : EEG and polygraph record her brain and emotional activity

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