Experiments Collection (page 6)

Firewalking Walking on hot coals Scientists from the University of London investigate the phenomenon of firewalking with Indian Kuda Box in 1935 © Mirrorpix

Laboratory / Testing / Work Science: Water Tests: Paul Cooper, Christopher Whatley
Laboratory/Testing/Work Science: Water Tests: Paul Cooper, Christopher Whatley, Roy Spicer. February 75-01021-008

Laboratory / Testing / Work Science: Water Tests: Paul Cooper, Christopher Whatley
Laboratory/Testing/Work Science: Water Tests: Paul Cooper, Christopher Whatley, Roy Spicer. February 75-01021

Volunteers for the mustard gas tests at the London Homeopathic Hospital. March 1942 P009213

Susan Bowden at work in the science lab at school. December 1969 Z11991

Weir W-2, at RAF Hendon on 19 July 1951. G. & J. Weir of Cathcart in Glasgow were an established engineering company, founded in 1871, which built aircraft during the First World War

AEA Aerodrome No. 3 - June Bug
The Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) Aerodrome No.3 June Bug. The Aerial Experiment Association was formed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, with J. A. D. McCurdy (a Canadian), Lt

Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No. 1 Red Wing
Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No.1 - Red Wing, seen on skids at the time of its first flight a frozen lake. The first of a series of experimental powered aircraft designed

Chemists in Laboratory Date: 1950

A German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants busy in a chemical laboratory. Date: 17th century

JEAN-ANTOINE NOLLET known as the Abbe Nollet, French professor of physics who carried out important early electrical experiments Date: 1700 - 1770

WESTERN ELECTRIC TV
Western Electric experiments with television at their research laboratories, Schenectady Date: 1930

SCHMIDTS RNG EXPERIMENT
HELMUT SCHMIDTs random number generator experiments : a subject at the Institute of Parapsychology, Durham, North Carolina, attempts to predict or affect the RNG display Date: 1960s-1970s

ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENT
A man and woman experimenting with an electrical machine Date: 1759

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German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants
A German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants busy in a chemical laboratory. Date: circa 1600

A tuberculosis patient being given a direct blood transfusion from a goat, at Dr Simon Bernheims clinic. France, ca. 1891. Engraving

Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745-1827). Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Oil

Advert for Wulfings Formamint tablets 1913
Why you catch sore throats and how to cure and prevent it. Germs from a public telephone in constant use, and railway carriages are favourite breeding grounds

Cleve Backster experimenting on plant sensitivity
Grover Cleveland " Cleve" Backster (b.1924), American scientist, best known for his experiments with biocommunication in plant and animal cells

Apparatus used by Ingen-Housz in plant experiments. Illustration (engraving?) from Jean [Jan] Ingen-Housz, Experiences sur les vegetaux.. Date: 1780

Ivan Pavlov, caricature C013 / 7594
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). Caricature of the Russian physiologist and experimental psychologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, ringing a bell to make a dog salivate

Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist C017 / 7120
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), Anglo-Irish chemist. Boyle established chemistry as a separate science and stressed the need for experimental precision and accurate observation

Kuda Bux and one of his experiments
Undated photograph of Kuda Bux and one of his experiments with " eyeless sight" : with head bandaged, he is duplicating shorthand characters drawn on a blackboard by Lucie Kay

French transfiguration medium Eugenie Picquart
Photograph of the French " transfiguration" medium Eugenie Picquart at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, in a trance during experiments, 1928. HPG/1/7/17 (ii)"

Magdeburg Hemispheres
In 1650 Otto von Guericke demonstrated that even a team of horses could not tug apart his hermetically sealed hemispheres from which the air had been evacuated

Diy Heliograph
A simple heliograph is easily constructed, and uses the suns rays to transmit messages, in morse code, over distances up to 100 kilometres

Gulf steam bottles, used in scientific experiments to provide information about ocean currents. From Longmans New Geographical Readers, published 1892

Early 19th century experiment with electricity on the human body. From The Cyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature by Abraham Rees, published London 1820

Two Glass Flasks With Colored Solutions

Photography of a Smell by F Breitenbach
The odour of camphor made visible: photography of a Smell by F Breitenbach. Exhibited in the Royal Photographic Societys annual exhibition, with an explanatory note headed

A R G OWEN
Alan Robert George Owen Mathematician and psychical researcher, associated with poltergeist investigation and the Philip experiments Date: 1919 -

Put to the test, 1915
President Woodrow Wilson, U.S.A, " Sakes alive! Seems like I m goin to prove that water is thicker than blood, after all!" Date: 1915

Alan and Iris Owen, psychical researchers
Alan Robert George Owen (1919-2003), mathematician, psychical researcher and author, associated with poltergeist investigation and the Philip experiments (Toronto)

Lunokhod 2 lunar rover C014 / 0153
Lunokhod 2 lunar rover. Lunokhod 2 was the second of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program

Jean Villemin, French physician
Jean Antoine Villemin (1827-1892), French physician. Villemin received military training and qualified as an army doctor. In 1863

Esp / Zener Card / Circle
RHINE EXPERIMENTS - A Zener Card - circle

Esp / Zener Card / Waves
RHINE EXPERIMENTS - A Zener Card - waves

Esp / Zener Card / Square
RHINE EXPERIMENTS - A Zener Card - square

Esp / Zener Card / Star
RHINE EXPERIMENTS - A Zener Card - star. Date: 1937

Electric Vampire
THE ELECTRIC VAMPIRE (F H Power) - insect produced by electricity (based on Crosses experiments) The monster claims a victim

Prism splitting white light ray into colours of the visible spectrum, side view

Diving experiments in Paris
Testing of various diving equipment in the Seine, Paris, 1855. The technologies included different diving apparatus such as those invented by Siebe, Heinke and Cabirol

Royal Institution Christmas Lecture - H H Turner
Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. A new fairyland opened for children: little girls fanning away the white cloud formed by the pouring of liquid air on to water, at the Royal Institution

Splitting the Atom by G. H. Davis
A possible source of unlinited power. Tapping a source of power that may drive all the machinery in the World: Experiments designed to release the forces imprisoned in the atom. Date: 1924

Atoms of which things are made
Sir William Braggs experiments in his opening lecture, concerning the Nature of Things delivered at the Royal Institution. Date: 1924

Satire on ethics of Louis Pasteurs experiments
A moral dilemma. Satire on the ethics of Louis Pasteurs experiments on animals. Date: 1889

Electrical gold finder
Experiments with an electrical device to find gold underground. Date: 1892

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