Historic Laboratory Scenes

Black and white historical images of laboratories featuring equipment, scientists at work, and the scientific ambiance of past research environments.

SPECTROGRAPH MOUNTING FOR NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BUILDING IN WASHINGTON, DC.

SPECTROGRAPH MOUNTING FOR NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BUILDING IN WASHINGTON, DC.

Interior from the laboratory, the microscope room. Interiör från laboratoriet, mikroskoprummet.

Herrljunga telegraph expedition

Italian scientist Giuseppe Sanarelli in his laboratory at the Experimental Hygiene Institute in Montevideo, Uruguay, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIV, No 27, July 4, 1897.

JJ (Joseph John) Thomson (1856-1940) British physicist: discoverer of Electron and pioneer of nuclear physics. Here at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

X-ray laboratory. X-ray laboratory

Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Administrative History of the First Naval District in World War II

Chemical Laboratory. 1939

Silver gelatin photograph by Franz Kaiser showing the interior of the chemical laboratory at the graphic teaching and experimental institution in Wiener Westbahnstrasse, produced between 1906 and 1913.

A physiology laboratory, either at the Institute of Experimental Medicine or at the Imperial Military Medical Academy, St Petersburg, with workbenches, cabinets of apparatus, and two members of staff. Photograph, 1904.

Interior of the Physisch Laboratory (Bijhouwerstraat 8) in Utrecht: Dr ter Horst and DR Milatz for equipment for artificial producing radioactive substances.

Laboratory. Recorded on 5.V.1916. Oleszow. .

Interior of the Physisch Laboratory (Bijhouwerstraat 8) in Utrecht: Prof. L.S. Ornstein in a scientific treatise with a foreign physicist.

A Korn telephotography device, photograph by Hutin, Trampus and C, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIV, No 10, March 10, 1907.

Robert Koch (1843- 1910) in his laboratory. German physician and pioneering microbiologist, famous for discovering the tuberculosis bacillus in 1882. Nobel Prize for medicine in 1905, Germany. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890

'Police Bacteriological Laboratory', 1914. Artist: Unknown.

Telegrafexpediton

Interior of the Laboratory of the Keuringsdienst van Waren (Rijnkade 2) in Utrecht: research into the water content in milk.

Industrial Hygiene Laboratory , Laboratories. Photographs of the First Naval District

The laboratories of Marie and Pierre Curie, Paris: room where electrometrical measurement took place. Photograph, ca. 1900.

Wireless telegraph apparatus in the Eiffel Tower, Paris for transmitting the time to vessels up to 3000 miles away at sea. Date: July 9th 1910

Heinrich Beck

Herstellung des Pest-Impfstoffs am Pasteur-Institut in Paris, hier Emile Roux, Frankreich, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Origina...

Laboratory at Thomas Firth & Sons, Norfolk Works, Sheffield, England c1900

Marie and Pierre Curie (centre) with a man, using equipment in their laboratory, Paris. Photograph, ca. 1900.

Industrial laboratory at Thomas Firth & Son's Norfolk Works, Sheffield, c1900. Artist: Unknown

Collection of ancient chemistry and alchemy utensils at the National Germanic Museum of Nuremberg, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

Production of the plague vaccine at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, here Emile Roux, France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Special work table in the first chemical laboratory of the University of Berlin, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.

'An Airship Weather Centre', 1927. Artist: Unknown.

Jules Coutant (1854-1913), French politician and Mayor of Ivry-sur-Seine, inside the apprentice school he has just established, France, photograph from the magazine L'Illustration, year 70, no 3600, February 24, 1912.

Apparatus at left distills special aviation gasoline. Apparatus at right tests lubricating oils for percentage of emulsified water. This work was supervised by chemist E. W. Dean.

Pierre and Marie Curie1905

Tackle chamber (pictured name).The Tackle Chamber (pictured name)

Miss E. H. Dodd in room various aeronautical displays

Ten members of staff studying and performing experiments on dogs in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857 - 1927) Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology. He is best known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev's disease. Moreover, he is known for his competition with Ivan Pavlov regarding the study of conditioned reflexes.

Interior from the laboratory at Arboga Margarinfabrik AB.

Laboratory bacteriologists. ,

... Cow, Coney Island Stereoscopic views still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1865 - 1919. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)

A view inside a laboratory at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, operated by the Chemical Warfare Service during World War One. The photograph was taken in 1916 and shows a scene of scientific research and experimentation related to chemical warfare. Note: This image is labeled as 602.07 with related notes.

Scientific laboratories on Monte Rosa: 9 Professor Awater and Professor Mosso, 10 the Matterhorn and Dent Blanche, 11 Volterra, Mosso and Galeotti, 12 farewell dinner for the Italian expedition being replaced by the German and Austrian expedition, 13 Dr Alessandri, director of the meteorological service, 14 workshop, 15 room for meteorological observations, Italy, photograph from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIII, No 31, August 5, 1906.

Engraving depicting Niels Ryberg Finsen's original UV arc light used to treat various skin conditions, including Lupus. In the tubes placed at 45° to the arc light quartz lenses concentrated the ud rays and a column of running water absorbed heat. Repeated daily exposures of 1 1/4 hours necessary for beneficial effect. Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904) a Faroese physician, scientist and Nobel Prize Laurette of Icelandic and Danish descent. Dated 20th century

Transparency - Private Lab, Medical building, McGill University, Montreal, QC, about 1895

December 1909. Distance vision. Mr. Ruhmer, inventor of the amazing devices with which vision at great distances is achieved.

(L TO R): ALBERT EINSTEIN & CHARLES ST. JOHN AT THE FOCUS OF THE 150-FOOT TOWER TELESCOPE.

Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), ran an experimental radio station in New York City in 1916, where he made the and the first radio announcement of Presidential election results when Woodrow Wilson was reelected in 1916.

The Golden, Colorado station of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, led by Dr. R.B. Moore, is seen here engaged in war work activities. This particular image captures the production of high-grade mesethorium, which was used as a substitute for radium in luminous paints and derived as a by-product from gas mantle manufacture.

A work table in the chemical laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, in 1880, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century original, Europe

La Malmaison, France: 1926 Inventor Henri Fenal in the laboratory at La Malmaison. He is the nephew of Edouard Belin who made the first transatlantic radio facsimile transmission.

Scene in the heart of the control room of the Baird apparatus. Special tests of reception of the B.B.C from Alexandra Palace of synchronised television and speech were held at Olympia by a committe of the Radio Manufacturers' Association. On alternate days transmissions from Alexandra Palace were given by Baird and Marconi E.M.I systems. In 1935 the B.B.C experimented with John Logie Baird's television system and Marconi's E.M.I system. The E.M.I succeeded Baird's in 1937. Date: 1936

Photograph of Sir James Dewar (1842-1923) a Scottish chemist and physicist. Dated 20th Century

The Electrolux laboratory. LUX 'electrical lab.

Engraving depicting stereotyping room. Dated 19th century

Laboratory technician conducting tests on fuel oil for safety and ease of flow through pipes and valves. This research was conducted under the supervision of E. W. Dean at the Bureau of Mines laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pa. Date: November 1918. Source: U.S. Bureau of Mines.

Standing man in a laboratory.

The Electrolux laboratory. Refrigerator, type D appliance, series 1.

Illustration depicting corpses at the Paris morgue stored in chilled chambers. Dated 19th Century

A young man conducting an experiment in a chemical laboratory. Photograph.

Marcelin Berthelot studying the effect of electricity on plants in his workshop, Meudon, France, photo from L'Illustration, No 3065, November 23, 1901.

Thomas Alva Edison in His Laboratory

Transparency - Hygiene lab, Medical building, McGill University, Montreal, QC, about 1895

Bacteriologistisches Institut in Pomorzany, 1916.

Italy. lombardia. bergamo. liceo lussana. laboratory. 1930-1940 .

KOCH, Robert (1843-1910). German physician, discoverer of the tuberculin. Nobel Prize in 1905. Colour engraving depicting his laboratory. Engraving.

The Nobel Prize in Physics, Henri Moissan (1852-1907), in his laboratory in Paris, France, photograph by M Branger, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIII, No 49, December 9, 1906.

I.P. Pavlov and students in the vivisection room, Physiology Department at the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

Maggi Laboratory, Paris

sir WILLIAM RAMSAY Chemist ; depicted conferring with Pierre Curie Date: 1852 - 1916

Geyser Spring, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Saratoga Springs (N.Y.)

Laboratory 2nd floor, Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories. 19th C

The unification and distribution of time using pneumatic chronometers, France Date: 1880

Microscopic examination , Paints & varnishes, Research, Processes & techniques, Microscopes. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Filing a shell section and preparing the fuse head.. Underwood & Underwood (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s)

The 30 inch reflector at Greenwich observatory, England, circa 1910

Microscopic examination of artists' oil paints , Paints & varnishes, Research, Processes & techniques, Laboratories. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

The Aquarium, zoological station of Algiers. Algeria, Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1888

Experimental workshop. >>

Count Henry de La Vaulx (1870-1930) and the nacelle of his balloon, France, photo by Marius Bar, from L'illustrazione Italiana, Year XXVIII, No 42, October 20, 1901.

T-B Exhibit

Tape Recorder; Valdemar Poulsen's Telegraphone; a magnetic tape recorder using thin steel ribbon. 1907.

Artificial hatching of hen eggs by the Baker method. Supply of bait for layer chicks. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1878.

Interior of the St. Antonius Hospital (Prins Hendriklaan 40) in Utrecht: Laboratorium.n.b.: Prins Hendriklaan 40 was changed around 1949 to Jan van Scorelstraat 2.

Geyser Spouting Spring, Saratoga, N.Y. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Health resorts , New York (State) , Saratoga Springs (N.Y.), Saratoga Springs (N.Y.), Geysers

CHARLES RENARD 1847/1905 INVENTOR DEL DIRIGIBLE.

View of the Science Laboratory at Manassas Regional High School. This item is a photograph of the science laboratory at Manassas Regional High School. This photograph was used as the Plaintiff's Exhibit No. 83 for the civil rights case Constance Carter, et al. v. The School Board of Arlington County, Virginia et al.. Mid Atlantic Region (Philadelphia, PA). Photographic Print.

Mathematical-physical salon. inside view

PIERRE CURIE explains their findings at the Sorbonne, Paris, Date: 1859 - 1906

An albumin photograph by Döbbelin from 1865 showing an interior view of the international photographic exhibition in Berlin, capturing displays, visitors, and exhibition layout.

Tape Recorder; Valdemar Poulsen's Telegraphone; a magnetic tape recorder using thin steel ribbon. 1907.

Preparation of a cathode bulb, radiography, illustration from L'Illustration, No 2767, March 7, 1896.

CURIE, Marie (Warsaw, 1867-Sancellemoz, 1934). French physicist. Along with her husband, Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898 and received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911. It was the first woman to occupy a position in higher education (1906). Marie Curie in their laboratory. "L'Illustration", 1911.

Laboratory at Leipzig, Germany Date: 1878

The Mineral Gallery, British Museum. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

Thomas Alva Edison on cover of Scientific American.. 1909. Clippings, Portraits. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Public figures, Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931

Thomas Edison at His Laboratory Desk. ca. 1948, Fort Myers, Florida, USA, Pausing from his rubber experiments, Edison looks up from his laboratory desk. On it can be seen test tubes, experiments flasks, beakers and other equipment used in his goldenrod research.

View of a workroom in the chemistry laboratory of the University of Leipzig, 1888, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century master copy, Europe

EUGENE TURPIN French scientist in his laboratory: he invented 'melinite', a form of gas warfare, as well as other explosives Date: 1848 - 1927

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). French chemist and bacteriologist. Pasteur observes the effects of inoculation of rabies virus. Paris. Engraving by Rico.

Photograph of Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934) a Polish and naturalized-French physicist, Nobel Prize winner and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, with her husband Pierre Curie (1859-1906) a French physicist, Nobel Prize winner, and a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. Dated 1906

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