Experiment Collection (page 5)

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

Captain Jerninghams Anchor-Firing Mortar, 1846
Engraving of an experiment to test Captain Jerninghams idea to assist the launching of lifeboats. The launching of lifeboats from a beach into heavy breaking surf was often dangerous

Mr Maskelynes experiment - female spirit emerging from man
A photographic example of Mr Maskelynes experiment - a mechanical illusion of spiritual manifestations. Miss Cassie Brucea can be seen emerging from her father-in-laws body

Attempting Clairvoyance
Frederick Marion - real name Josef Kraus - Czech stage magician, attempts clairvoyance on the contents of a tin under the direction of Harry Price

Schneider Seance / Price
Rudi Schneider sitting in seance with Harry Price, who conducted experiments into his spiritualist powers

Medium / Mrs Tomson

Demonstration of the Dracone, Southampton, 1958
Photograph of the Dracone, a flexible towed trailer for the transport of fluids lighter than water, Southampton, 19th September 1958

A crawling experiment at the London Hospital
Crawling used as an exercise for the treatment of spinal curvature for patients up to the age of sixteen. It was administered three times a week for twenty minutes at a time

To cure tube stuffiness
Image showing a new experiment on the London Underground to cure tubes of their stuffiness, whereby the Central London Railway Company proposed to spray the tunnels every night to combat the dryness

M. Remond walking on water
Photograph of M. Remond walking on water on the lake in the Bois de Boulogne, in his experiment in 1907. He has a small canoe-like boat attached to each foot

Wilson Experiment / 1760
English artist Benjamin Wilson conducts an experiment with electricity in the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London

Laser Anemometer 1968
This experiment measures how much light from a laser beam can pass through the water in the glass tube when the water moves at different speeds

Nollet Experiment 2
Nollet, at the College de Navarre, Paris, demonstrates how electricity can be generated by stroking a glass globe, and then passed from one person to another

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

Nollet Experiment
Jean-Antoine Nollet stands beside some of the apparatus with which he researches how electricity can be generated and transferred

Santorios Balance C16
Santorio (b.1561) weighed himself for 24 hour periods and proved that weight gain or loss varied according to the type of food consumed

Psychometry
Mr & Mrs James Coates conducting an experiment in PSYCHOMETRY : she is seeking to read the content of the envelope by extra-sensory means

Electricity Experiment
French schoolboys illustrate how the human body can act as an electrical conductor, with the aid of an insulating stool, a small stool with glass legs

Franklin and his Kite
Franklins experiment with a kite at Philadelphia

Science lesson, Northfield House, Leicester
Teacher helps pupil with his test tube experiment at Northfield House Junior School, Leicester

Price, Joad at Brocken
Harry Price (right) and Professor C E M Joad at the Brocken, Germany, June 1932, investigating the mountains alledgedly magical features as part of the Brocken experiment

Justus Liebig / Weimar
JUSTUS VON LIEBIG German chemist conducting an experiment

Louis Pasteur / Graphic 85
LOUIS PASTEUR French chemist and microbiologist in his laboratory

Philippe De Girard / Card
PHILIPPE DE GIRARD French inventor

Ta Edison / 77th Birthday
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor on his 77th birthday in his West Orange laboratory

Torricellis Barometer
Perier checks the results of Torricellis barometer experiment on the summit of the Puy-de-Dome, France. Torricelli devised the earliest form in 1643

Pictet / Gas Experiment
Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist, conducts an experiment to liquefy and solidify hydrogen gas, and studied properties of substances at low temperatures

E Torricelli / Flammarion
EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist, inventing the barometer in 1642

Monkey Gland Treatment
Prague: a wise monkey refuses to take part in the monkey gland experiment

London Institution 1820
London Institution with a meeting taking place

CURTISS GOLD BUG
The Gold Bug biplane designed and flown by Glenn Hammond Curtiss for the Aerial Experiment Association

Mccurdys Silver Dart
Canadian aviator J A D McCurdy pilots the Aerial Experiment Associations biplane Silver Dart designed by himself : he makes several successful flights

C17 Science Lecture
A science lecture in progress

German Rocket Experiment
German rocket experiments on a windswept spit of land - filling the device with its chemical fuel

Newton / Decomposes Light
Newton uses a prism to decompose light

Nollet Experiment 6
The Abbe Nollet demonstrates the electrical conductivity of the human body, at the College de Navarre, Paris

Nollet and Soldiers
Nollet demonstrates electrical force at Versailles, sending a current through soldiers who stand with linked hands; in one experiment he does this with 240 soldiers

Bells Photophone / C19Th
Bells photophon being demonstrated

Enrico Forlaninis Boat
The superb hydrofoil boat of Enrico Forlanini, travelling at 40 miles an hour over the waters of Lake Maggiore. Alexander Graham Bell rode on Forlaninis boat here in 1911`

Airmail Project 1930
An American airmail project

HANCKWITZ ? -1756
AMBROSE GODFREY HANCKWITZ An apothecary from Hamburg who came to England to assist Robert Boyle and manufacture chemicals, including the first phosphorous

Jenner / Petit Journal
Edward Jenner carries out his first experiment in vaccination against smallpox

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