Laboratory Collection (#70)

Sample vials. Liquids of different colours stored in sample vials. This type of equipment is used in a wide range of laboratory work, from analysis of forensic samples to medical research

Preparing sample vials. Pipette being used to add a liquid to a vial. This type of equipment is used in a wide range of laboratory work, from analysis of DNA and other samples, to medical research

Physiological tests on pollution workers
Pollution control workers undergoing physiological tests in a climatic chamber. The workers are simulating the effort required to carry out their work

FIVES contamination detection system. The Fluorescence Interaction Video Exposure System (FIVES) is designed to detect contamination of environmental workers by using fluorescent dye as a tracer

DNA autoradiograms

DNA autoradiogram

Egg chemical reaction, 19th century
Egg chemical reaction. The reaction uses hydrochloric acid which reacts with the calcium carbonate in the egg shell to produce the white foam seen here (due to the carbon dioxide produced)

Becquerel phosphoroscope, 19th century
Becquerel phosphoroscope. This device, invented by the French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891), is used to measure the time taken for a phosphorescent material to stop glowing

Photographic laboratory, 19th century
Photographic laboratory. Photographer developing positive plates in a laboratory. As opposed to negatives, these are positives, but are still used in a similar way to produce photographic prints

Nitrogen triiodide, 19th century
Nitrogen triiodide experiment. Apparatus being used to produce the sensitive contact explosive nitrogen triiodide. A feather is being used to handle the material to avoid it exploding

Electrical certification, 19th century
Electrical certification. This is the calibration room of the Central Electricity Laboratory (Laboratoire Central d Electricite, LCE), Paris, France

Diffraction demonstration, 19th century
Diffraction demonstration using a sheet of mica. Mica has highly ordered cleavage planes and crystals, allowing sheets of this silicate mineral to be used to demonstrate diffraction of a candle

Hydrogen conductivity, 19th century
Hydrogen conductivity experiment. Electrical current (wires at bottom) is being passed through a platinum wire connecting two electrodes. In air the platinum wire glows due to resistance

Anode patterns, 19th century
Anode patterns. Various designs for anodes shaped to produce patterns by electrolytic deposition of metals. These patterns are usually referred to as Nobili rings

Water filters, 19th century
Water filters. These simple filters are based on the siphon principle, using gravity and siphon suction to draw water through the filters and down into the flasks below

Reis telephone, 19th century
Reis telephone. This rudimentary telephone by the German inventor Johann Philipp Reis (1834-1874) was first built in 1860 and was based on the principle of magnetostriction

Electrical phenomena, 19th century
Electrical phenomena. These phenomena were produced in experiments carried out by French instrument maker Eugene Ducretet (1844-1915)

Water boiling experiment, 19th century
Water boiling experiment. This experiment demonstrated the principle that paper and cardboard will not burn as long as the energy of a flame is being used to boil water instead

Magnetograph, 19th century
Magnetograph. This apparatus was erected by the French physicist Eleuthere Mascart (1837-1908) in Mountsouris, Paris, France

Bomb calorimeter, 19th century
Bomb calorimeter. This diagram shows the bomb calorimeter designed by the French chemist Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907). It is used to measure the heat of chemical reactions

Electric candle, 19th century
Electric candle. This apparatus is based on the lamps designed by the French inventor Emile Reynier and the English engineer Richard Werdermann

Insulators at electricity substation
Spare electrical insulators at master electricity substation, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, near Chicago, Illinois, USA

Pasteurising machine, 19th century
Pasteurising machine. This machine is designed to heat liquids to a high temperature and then cool it. This method of food preservation slows microbial growth and is known as pasteurisation

Invisible writing, 19th century
Invisible writing. Etching of invisible writing being carried out using sodium hypochlorite (then known as Javelle water or Javel water), an alkaline disinfectant more commonly known as bleach

Photographic dark room, 19th century
Photographic dark room. This room is used to process photographic negatives, so it must be kept dark. A variety of chemicals are used to process the photographic plate and fix the image

Wilson Hall at Fermilab
Wilson Hall at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, near Chicago, Illinois, USA

Acoustic smoke rings, 19th century
Acoustic smoke rings. The device at lower right, seen mounted on a metal bar and a tuning fork, is designed to blow acoustic smoke rings

Preparation of ozone, 19th century
Preparation of ozone. Artwork from the tenth volume (second period of 1892) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Koch and tuberculosis, 19th century
Koch and tuberculosis research. The German bacteriologist Robert Koch (1843-1910) is considered one of the founders of modern medical bacteriology

Fermilab electricity substation
Master electricity substation at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, near Chicago, Illinois, USA. Note pylons at lower right designed to represent the Greek letter pi

Gas diffusion experiment, 19th century
Gas diffusion experiment. Hydrogen gas is produced from a chemical reaction at left. Since hydrogen is a small and light gas molecule

Ducretet apparatus, 19th century
Ducretet apparatus. This device was invented by the French instrument maker Eugene Ducretet (1844-1915). The design includes Ruhmkorff coils (solenoids)

Stem cells, light micrograph
Stem cells. Coloured light micrograph of stem cells undergoing spontaneous differentiation. Stem cells are precursor cells that can differentiate spontaneously or in a directed fashion to form

Tuberculosis transfusion, 19th century
Tuberculosis goat blood transfusion. This procedure was carried out by the French doctor Samuel Bernheim (1855-1915) and involved transfusing 150 to 200 grams of blood from the goat to the female

Loudspeaker apparatus, 19th century
Loudspeaker apparatus, as constructed in the laboratory of the French physicist Henri Becquerel (1852-1908). This apparatus includes a Ruhmkorff coil (induction coil)

Silver plating, 19th century
Silver plating. This chemical reaction involves metal substitution to produce this tree shape plated in silver. Artwork from the tenth volume (second period of 1892)

Fermilab magnet
Particle beam deflection magnet displayed in lobby of Fermilabs Wilson Hall, Batavia, near Chicago, Illinois, USA

Capillary repulsion, 19th century
Capillary repulsion demonstration. The ball at top centre is balancing on the meniscus of a water column produced by surface tension and capillary action

Electroscope experiment, 19th century
Electroscope experiment. This simple version of an electroscope, designed to detect electric charge, is described as a glass flask with a stopper containing a metal rod

Sample pollen Sides in a lab
A tray of sample slides with pollen awaiting study. Photographed at the University of Haifa

Electrical machines, 18th century

Static electricity, 18th century

Sample Sides in a lab
A tray of sample slides with pollen awaiting study. Photographed at the University of Haifa

Cultured E. coli and Enterococcus bacteria
MODEL RELEASED. Hand of a technician holds a petri dish containing agar on which red colonies of Escherichia coli (E.coli)

Caesium clock
501056 07/01/1983 Caesium frequency standard. The All-Union Research Institute of Physical, Technical and Radiotechnical Metrology.. Шияновский/RIA Novosti

Petri dish culture of E. coli bacteria
MODEL RELEASED. Hand of a technician holds a petri dish containing agar on which black colonies of Escherishia coli (E.coli) bacteria are being cultured in a laboratory. E

Columbus module of the ISS, artwork

Metalline thermometer, 18th century

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