Experiments Collection (page 3)

View of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, which includes the bay, photographed by the Wright brothers in the vicinity of their 1900 camp, where they conducted their first gliding experiments in October

View of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, photographed by the Wright brothers in the vicinity of their 1900 camp, where they conducted their first gliding experiments in October. Date 1900

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

French Army Aircraft
In their annual manoeuvres, the French army experiments with the use of monoplanes for reconnaissance purposes, bringing back information about the enemys whereabouts. Date: September 1910

REV BENNETs STARS / 1794
The Rev Bennets stars, produced in varnish by electricity. Date: 1794

Voronof - Rejuvenation
Voronof experiments with his rejuvenation process on an old dog at the College de France Date: 1922

Electricity & Face
French doctor Duchenne (de Boulogne) demonstrates how facial expressions can be altered by applying electrical current to different muscles of the face Date: circa 1860

Folklore / Insects
CROSSEs ACARI Insect which Crosse believed he had created spontaneously and inadvertently in the course of electro-chemical experiments Date: 1837

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

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

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

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

Book plate used by Harry Price for books in the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, containing the illustration " Abomination des Sorciers", with small actually used version

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" )

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

M. Moissans diamond experiments
Ferdinand Frederick Henro Moissan (1852-1907) pictured with his electric furnace. Born in Paris, Moissan was an artificial diamond maker

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

Planets - Jupiter
JUPITER (Zeus, Jove) drives his chariot, drawn by eagles, over Earth where scientists study the cosmos and conduct experiments and philosophers engage in learned discourse

Electric Water
This young lady stands on an insulated platform, and is connected to an electric machine : when she pours water onto another persons hands, sparks are produced

Untouchable Flowers
This optical trick gives the illusion of a vase of flowers, thanks to projection from a mirror

Acoustic Umbrellas
Umbrellas can be used as sound-collecting devices, enabling two people to conduct a whispered conversation without others overhearing

Camera Obscura
A camera obscura, invented in 1558 by Porta, can be set up in a tent, with a lens and mirror on top and a suitable surface inside onto which the view is projected

Papins Experiments
The experiments of Denis Papin with a steam cylinder lay the foundations of future steam- power development

Heros Experiments
The experiments of Hero of Alexandria are the first scientific attempts to harness the power of steam

Inoculated dog in cage
An image of a dog used in Louis Pasteurs experiments into the treatment of rabies (Hydrophobia). The dog had been inoculated with the rabies virus in order to observe the effects of the disease

Musschenbroek / Leyden Jar
Pieter van Musschenbroek, Dutch mathematician and physicist, performs electrical experiments at Leide, where he is a Professor. He discovered the principle of Leyden jar

Experiments with Fairlies steam carriage
Fairlies steam carriage; an invention that gained much criticism, due to its unusual seating design. The train is sectioned into 2 first class carriages seating 16 people

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

Humphry Davy / Experiments
Humphry Davy, whilst director of the laboratory of the Pneumatic Institution, Clifton, investigates the effects of nitrous oxide (laughing gas)

Luigi Galvani
LUIGI GALVANI Italian scientist, notable for early experiments with electricity

Electrical Spark / 1745
William Watson produces an electrical spark from a human body

Esp / Zener Card / Cross
RHINE EXPERIMENTS - A Zener Card - cross

Joseph Priestley / Hogg
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY English chemist and clergyman, best known for his experiments with electricity and oxygen Date: 1733 - 1804

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

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

Justus Liebig / 3 of 6
JUSTUS VON LIEBIG German scientist is given his own laboratory at Giessen University

CHANUTEs GLIDER 1895
Octave Chanutes glider experiments at Miller Beach, Indiana, not only attracted great public interest, they made a substantial contribution to aeronautics

Simpson / Chloroform / 1847
James Young Simpson experiments with chloroform and is discovered by a colleague

Charles Jackson / Anaesthe
Charles Jackson experiments on himself with sulphuric ether

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

Science / Foucault
Berget carries out experiments with Foucaults Pendulum at the Pantheon, Paris

Scheele Discovers
KARL WILHELM SCHEELE Swedish chemist depicted conducting his experiments to determine the composition of air

Electricity Volta
Alessandro Volta demonstrates to Napoleon I his voltaic pile - a battery capable of storing the force created by an electric motor

Electricity Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, by flying a kite in a stormy sky, demonstrates the electrical nature of storm-clouds, giving him the idea of a lightning conductor

Electricity Guericke
At Hamburg, Otto von Guericke, burgomaster of Magdeburg, demonstrates an electrical machine - the first of its kind, based on a rotating sphere generating force

Testing Explosives / 1866
Experiments with Gales protected gunpowder in a Martello Tower near Hastings

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