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Title: Mt. Wilson as seen from Pasadena showing the Big T
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1923
Series: History of Science
Description: Edison R. Hoge Photograph Collection.

Title: “Scientific Researches!--New Discoveries in PNEUMATICKS!”
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science
Description: Print of a famous comic color etching done by James Gillray (1757-1815), entitled “Scientific Researches!--New Discoveries in PNEUMATICKS!--or--an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air,” published May 23, 1802 by H. Humphrey, St. James’s Street. Gillray is caricaturing the experiments with laughing gas done at the Royal Institution. The lecturer may be Thomas Garnett or Thomas Young. Humphrey Davy is caricatured as the assistant operating the hydraulic bellows filled with laughing gas. The founder of the Institution, Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) is seen standing in the doorway.

Title: Eliot Blackweider
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1940
Series: History of Science
Description: Geologists

Title: Nicolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky, 1793-1856
Format: photograph: print
Series: History of Science

Title: Hooke’s compound microscope
Format: photograph: print
Series: History of Science
Description: Robert Hooke’s compound microscope was described in his “Micrographia” (1665), the first detailed and illustrated account of a compound microscope to be published. The Science Museum, London. Photographs: Concerning History of Science

Title: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, 1857-1894
Format: photograph: print
Series: History of Science
Description: From a photograph in the Deutsches Museum.

Title: Andrew Lawson (drawing)
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science
Description: Geologists

Title: Paul Ehrenfest at blackboard
Format: photograph: print
Series: History of Science

Title: Nine workmen around 200″ mirror
Format: photograph: print
Series: History of Science
Description: Edison R. Hoge Photograph Collection.

Title: Celestial Map: “Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel” (Dutch)
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science
Description: Note: This is a color print, with a color neg. - Fine Artprints, Watson Collection.

Title: Montgolfier (profile)
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science
Description: Photographs: Concerning History of Science

Title: H. Helmsholtz standing in front of a blackboard
Format: photograph: print
Series: History of Science

Title: Sir James Jeans
Format: photograph: print
Series: History of Science
Description: Astronomers

Title: James Clerk Maxwell
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science

Title: Andre Lwoff of the Institut Pasteur, Paris
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1954-11
Series: History of Science
Description: Biologists

Title: Leon Foucault, 1819-1858
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science
Description: History of Science - Print Misc. 16th, 17th, 18th century Scientists

Title: Jakob J. Laub
Format: photograph: print
Series: History of Science

Title: Isaac Newton
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science
Description: Fine Artprints, Watson Collection.

Title: Cavendish Lab: the old Lecture Room designed by J.C. Maxwell
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1926-12
Series: History of Science
Description: History of Science Misc. Photos - Cavendish Lab.

Title: Tullio Levi-Civita
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science
Description: Mathematicians.

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