General view of a glass cell used for the preparation of polyamides during the early stages of nylon production and research at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware. Predating the autoclave developed…

Close-up view of a sterile culture of small phanerogams, also known as spermatophytes or seed plants, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C. The…

General view of an unidentified man, presumably a laboratory assistant, posed near a work bench with assorted scientific apparatus, including a microscope. While the setting of this photograph is also unidentified, the…

General view of a female employee analyzing unidentified substances in the Bureau of Chemistry's Pharmacognosy Laboratory. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Pharmacognosy Laboratory supervised the…

Portrait of Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883-1971), a Hungarian American professor of biochemistry at the Washington University and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, who prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with…

General view of a laboratory bench at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (H.R.I.M.R.) showing assorted laboratory glassware and scientific apparatus. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical…

Postcard depicts three men and one woman working in a laboratory at the Pasteur Institute.

An illustration of the principal office and laboratories of the Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana.

An advertising pamphlet for Eveready flashlights, includes an explanation of how an electric flashlight will aid the user along with how it operates with the use of an Eveready Tungsten Battery. Features illustrations…

Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a navigable balloon designed by aeronaut Ferdinand Lagleize in the style of a fish. This postcard is part of a set originally collected in a scrapbook entitled Al…

Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a flying airship with assorted propulsion mechanisms and a French flag. The illustration depicts a type of airship flown by French chemist and politician…

Portrait of Ira Remsen (1846-1927). Along with Constantin Fahlberg, Remsen discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin in 1879.

A native of New York City, Remsen received his M.D. from the Columbia University…

Sample book for sulfur dyes on cotton yarn. Contains dyeing instructions and mounted thread samples on folded cards.

Through the personas of a princess and a fairy, this volume explains different so-called "wonders of nature" to young readers, including insects, several varieties of flowers, snow crystals, metals, and clouds. The…

This engraving shows Dutch mathematician and physicist Jean Henri van Swinden (1746–1823) demonstrating the generation of electricity to the Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam. The Felix Meritis Society was founded in…

Originally published in Vanity Fair on January 8, 1887, this chromolithograph depicts Louis Pasteur holding two white rabbits.

Press clippling from The Midland Sun, May 21, 1897.

Part of the Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie (Journal of Electrochemistry), Vol. 2

Trade card for waterproof celluloid collars, cuffs, and shirt bosoms depicts a magician pulling a celluloid cuff out of a bowl of water, demonstrating their waterproof appeal. He also wears a celluloid cuff as a hat.…

Trade card for waterproof celluloid collars, cuffs, and shirt bosoms depicts a boy sailing on a cuff, demonstrating their waterproof appeal. Verso includes an advertisement for celluloid products along with advice for…

Trade card for waterproof celluloid collars, cuffs, and shirt bosoms featuring a racially stereotyped depiction of an Asian boy smoking an opium pipe. A celluloid cuff and collar adorn the boy's exaggerated Asian-style…

Frontismatter and plates have been digitized from this volume on poisonous substances. Chromolithographed frontispiece plate illustrates blood spectra. Digitized plates depict various poisonous substances under…

Interior photograph depicts a man standing next to a laboratory table with a man standing behind the subject holding what appears to be a needle or a medical device. Another man stands behind the subject holding up his…