Laboratory Equipment Collection (#4)

A corner of Pierre and Marie Curies laboratory, Paris, 1904. It was here that they did much of their work on magnetism and radioacticity which led to the 1903 Nobel prize for physics which they

JJ Thomson, British physicist, at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) discovered the electron and was a pioneer of nuclear physics

Spectroscopy. A spectrosopist observing (top). At the bottom, from left to right; absorption spectra of indigo, chromic chloride and magenta

William Crookes, British physicist and chemist, 1903. Artist: Spy
William Crookes, British physicist and chemist, 1903. Crookes (1832-1919) holding the discharge tube which carries his name

Pierre and Marie Curie, French physicists, 1904. Polish-born Marie Curie and her husband Pierre continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, British scientist, 1899. Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919) isolated the element Argon, one of the noble (inert) gases

Henri Moissan, French chemist, 1900. Moissan (1852-1907) at his desk at the Edison workshops, Paris, where he worked on the production of artificial diamonds

Centrifuge, 1882. Centrifuges are used to separate liquids from solids, or liquids from liquids of different density such as cream from milk. From Physics in Pictures by Theodore Eckardt

Distillation, 1882. Cross-section showing a furnace heating a still. Matter distilled is discharged through the beak of the alembic and is condensed in the worm that runs through the refrigerator

Chemist, 1508. A chemist or alchemist is using bellows to heat up the fire under a crucible. Behind him an alembic standing on a furnace is being used for distillation

Spectroscope, 1872. Instrument of the type developed by Robert Bunsen (1811-1899) and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887) during the 1850s

Scinece and Stupidity, 1876. Artist: Joseph Swain
Scinece and Stupidity, 1876. The policeman, clutching his Vivisection Bill, tries to move on the group of medical professors using a microscope to look at the results of their latest work

Microscope, light passing through lenses and focusing on glass slide, light also reflecting from mirror onto underside of object being viewed, angled view

Illustration of laboratory worker handling radioactive materials through holes in a glass tank, and wearing protective clothing

Illustration of scientist working in a laboratory

Andes Christ
circa 1950: The statue of Christ of the Andes at a height of 12, 500 feet on the Bermejal or Uspallata Pass between Mendosa, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile

Girton Laboratory
circa 1900: Female undergraduates at work in the laboratory at Girton College, Cambridge University. The college, founded in 1869, was the first for female undergraduates

Radiotelescope
15th January 1963: A radiotelescope in Nancay, France. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Telescope
circa 1950: Mark II radio telescope, Jodrell Bank. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

The physician as a devil, Johann Gelle, Egbert van Panderen, Hendrick Goltzius, 1609

Distillation device and different parts thereof separately, print maker: Jan Luyken, Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1693

Allegory of perception, Jan Saenredam, Johannes Janssonius, 1595 - 1600

Chemist holding test tube in studio, (B&W), portrait

Steel Mast
May 1919: A 450 foot steel mast at Marconis Station. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Signal Failure
1950: A short-lived device for signalling with electricity, used briefly in the early days of the railways in Britain. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hemispherical
Circa 1580, A Hemispherical, made by Hyeroimus Vulperica, in 1580, part of a complete collection of 16th century astronomical

Telegraphy Worker
A man in Britain receives a telegraph message from India, January 1909. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mind Machine
A woman whose head is attached to a machine which resembles a large hairdryer, but is in fact a Lavery Electric Automatic Phrenometer, for measuring brain activity

Speed Trap
1st December 1978: PC Alex McHattie aiming a radar speed gun (VASCA) at a car. (Photo by Roy Chaplin/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Chemical Lecture
A scientific demonstration in front of an audience. Original Artwork: Cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Artificial Lightning
19th January 1951: An artificial lightning generator at Queen Mary College, London. (Photo by Norman Vigars/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Chemistry, Equipment, fraction collector
Chemistry - Equipment, fraction collector

Beaker containing cobalt chloride, being weighed with digital scales

Chemistry equipment, including glass flasks, saltpetre, alum

Eudiometer, c. 1820

A test tube contaiing a solution of sodium fluorescein

Laboratory equipment

Molten crystals in a test tube, held in metal tongs

Conical flask containing yellow liquid and pipette held above it

Four bottles of different coloured liquids for chemical stain tests, and a pipette

Titration experiment, adding chemical of known concentration to test solution, effecting colour change

Making iron chloride through chemical reaction

A centrifuge machine

Test tube of sulphur and iron mix held in tongs above bunsen burner

Replica of John Tyndalls boiling point apparatus, 1880

Bunsen burner, beaker and coal

Microscope, beaker, scalpel, tweezers, and chemistry samples on petri dish, close-up

Convection experiment with paper dots in glass beaker of hot water on bunsen burner

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