Scientific Collection (#11)

Taking a snow depth measurement - boreal forest after a heavy snowfall. Wildlife reserve Denezhkin Kamen - North Ural Mountains - Russia

Search for Collared (Dicrostonix torquatus) and Siberian Lemmings (Lemmus sibiricus L.) in Russian Arctic. near Kara sea. Russian Arctic, Siberia, Russia

Rissos DOLPHIN - Being helped to swim by researcher (Grampus griseus)

Rissos DOLPHIN - Being given medication by vet (Grampus griseus)

Garial - breeding and release programme. Nepal

Leatherback / Leathery Turtle - Scientist recording hatching process for scientific research / study (Dermochelys coriacea). Malay protection project. Distribution includes Trinidad & Tobago

Rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath
A rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath.There are four balloons (two at each end), a sail to propel it vehicle and a rudder to steer it. From: Collegium experimentale, sive, curiosum

Factory filled with equipment to smelt metal
A factory filled with equipment to smelt metal. From: Commercium philosophico-technicum; or, the philosophical commerce of arts: designed as an attempt to improve arts, trades, and manufactures

Chemical Theatre, Guys Hospital
Frontispiece illustration of Chemical Theatre, Guys Hospital and title page of A syllabus of a course of chemical lectures read at Guys Hospital. Date: 1816

Display of the Arts and Sciences - Experiments
A general display of the Arts and Sciences. Frontipiece plate, showing a wide variety of scientific experiments and demonstrations taking place

British Association meeting
In the Town Hall, Sir William Armstrong delivers the opening address to the meeting of the British Association at Newcastle-on-Tyne Date: September 1863

Boy with microscope
A boy in white overalls, sitting at a table examining something through a microscope. Date: 20th century

German inventions for war on land by G. H. Davis
The ingenuity of German scientists applied to the war on land. Illustrating the German armys exploitation of scientific and technical inventions during the Second World War. Date: 1945

German inventions for war at sea by G. H. Davis
The ingenuity of German scientists applied to the war at sea. Illustrating maritime inventions and tactics introduced by the Germans during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Locating true magnetic North Pole by G. H. Davis
The locating of the true magnetic North Pole: an RAF discovery. Illustrating the 17, 720-mile polar expedition of the British Lancaster Aries and her crew. Date: 1945

Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California, USA. It includes a planetarium, a hall of science and a refracting telescope

Europe to America in 45 minutes by G. H. Davis
Not a Wellsian fantasy, but an actual project in preparation by Germany: Europe to America in 45 minutes. Drawings of a long-range rocket designed in Germany during the Second World War

Landing aircraft in fog by G. H. Davis
The dot and dash radio beam system of landing aircraft in fog: a method which prevented many accidents during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Edward C Pickering, astronomer, psychical researcher
Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), American astronomer, physicist and psychical researcher. He was a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research. Date: 19th century

Colin Brookes-Smith table tilting research
Colin Brookes-Smiths table designed for the detection of UMA (unconscious muscular action) in table tilting. The table surface has been removed to reveal the mechanisms underneath

Polygraph for brain and body monitoring in ESP testing
A multi-pen polygraph for the monitoring of brain and body functions during ESP testing. Date: 20th century

Cuttens photography apparatus
John Cuttens apparatus for automatically photographing any unusual incident. Date: 20th century

Seance of the Philip group, Toronto, Canada. This science-based group invented an imaginary spirit, Philip, who seemed to communicate as effectively as any real spirit from the other world

Cuttens pendulum recorder for psychical research
John Cuttens pendulum recorder (general view above, close-up below), for use in psychical research. This electronic device detects the movements of a pendulum which are recorded on the chart

William Rushton, physiologist and psychical researcher
William A H Rushton (1901-1980), physiologist and psychical researcher. He was based at Cambridge University and later at Florida State University, Department of Psychology

R George Medhurst, psychical researcher
R George Medhurst (d. 1971), psychical researcher and writer, member of the Society for Psychical Research. Date: 20th century

Joseph Maxwell, French psychical researcher
Joseph Maxwell (1858-1938), French psychical researcher, lawyer, physician and author. Date: circa early 20th century

Alan O Gauld, psychologist and parapsychologist
Alan O Gauld (b. 1932), British lecturer (now retired) in psychology, author, parapsychologist and Council member of the Society for Psychical Research. Date: 20th century

Mollusk Shell Variations
A scientific illustration of British land shells, illustrating some of the variations exhibited by a single species of mollusk. Original water colour drawings by John, W. Taylor

Gaston Tissandier
GASTON TISSANDIER (1843-1899), French journalist, scientific populariser, aviator and inventor, brother of Albert

Silvanus Thompson
SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON scientist and popular lecturer on scientific subjects Date: 1851 - 1916

Samuel Newth
SAMUEL NEWTH English churchman of New College, London, and scientific writer. Date: 1821 - 1898

Lavoisier and Apparatus
ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER French chemist, depicted with various items of scientific apparatus. Date: 1743 - 1794

Sir Howard Grubb
SIR HOWARD GRUBB Irish inventor and manufacturer of telescopes and other scientific instruments, famous for inventing the periscope. Date: 1844 - 1931

Page from the original notebook of George Cayley (1773-1857) - prolific English engineer and one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics. Date: 1808

Peking Observatory, China - Beijing Ancient Observatory
Peking Observatory - (Beijing) China. The Beijing Ancient Observatory - a pretelescopic observatory located in Beijing, China

Robert Hookes Microscope
Full-size copy of Robert Hookes Compound Microscope - held at the Science Museum, London. Hooke, an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635-1703) - author of Micrographia (1665)

Glenn Curtiss piloting his Aerodrome No3 June Bug on 4 July 1908 to win the Scientific American Trophy. Date: 1908

W J MacQuorn Rankine. eng portrait frontispiece. Miscellaneous Scientific Papers, 1881 Date: 1881

Book-plates showing Edward Heron-Allen crests
The Heron-Allen motto, Diligenter et fidelis (diligently and faithful), is found on book-plates of all his scientific volumes, housed in the Heron-Allen Library at The Natural History Musuem, London

Chart of oceanic section, Tenerife to Sombrero
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Chart of oceanic section, to St. Pauls Rocks

Chart of oceanic section, Tristan D Acunha to Cape of Good H
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

A Collection of Goniometers
A collection of antique scientific instruments known as goniometers held within the Natural History Museum. They were used for measuring interfacial angles of very small crystals

Preparation of skeleton material using the larvae of Dermestes maculatus (hind or leather beetle) to eat the flesh

Darwin Centre Live Presentation
Scientist giving a presentation in the Darwin Centre to a live audience

Visiting scientific party from the Royal Society on H. M.s Ch
Photographed at Sheerness at the start of the Voyage of H.M.S Challenger (1872-1876), a voyage of scientific discovery funded by the British Government

On the Origin of the Pallas Iron and Others Similar to it
The title page of Ernst Chladnis book On the Origin of the Pallas Iron and Others Similar to it, and on Some Associated Natural Phenomena, which was published in 1794

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