Permanent Exhibition - Science History Institute Digital Collections

What makes a rose a rose or an eye an eye?

1961

Color print advertisement for International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Image depicts a rose on the left, a blue eye on the right, and a multi-colored chemical model in the center of the page. The accompanying…

Creator Of Work International Business Machines Corporation
Subject International Business Machines Corporation, Electronic data processing, Computers, Biochemistry, Advertising

The Smoothest Spread to Put on Bread

1948

Color print advertisement by the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers promoting the nutritive and economic value of margarine. The advertisement features several slices of bread, one spread with margarine,…

Creator Of Work National Association of Margarine Manufacturers
Subject Margarine--Marketing, Margarine, Advertising, Food industry and trade

Advertisements, Ephemera

Bacteria Bigger than a Terrier

Electron microscope, perfected at RCA Laboratories, reveals hitherto hidden facts about the structure of bacteria

1948

Black and white print advertisement for an electron microscope manufactured and sold by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for various scientific and industrial applications. The advertisement features a…

Creator Of Work Radio Corporation of America
Subject Radio Corporation of America, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Microscopy, Microscopes, Electron microscopes, Advertising, Electron microscopy

Let's Make It for Keeps

1947-Nov

Color print magazine advertisement for Community silverware. This ad appeared in the Ladies' Home Journal, November 1947.

Artist Whitcomb, Jon, 1906-1988
Subject Silver-plated ware, Silverware, Electroplating, Oneida, ltd.

Advertisements, Ephemera

Exploring a New Universe

RCA Electronics in Action

1943

Print advertisement for an electron microscope and other electronics manufactured and sold by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for various scientific and industrial applications. The advertisement features an…

Creator Of Work Radio Corporation of America
Subject Radio Corporation of America, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Microscopy, Microscopes, Electron microscopes, Advertising, Bacteriology, Electron microscopy

Ephemera, Postcards

Postcard - Institut Pasteur - Salle des Cours

Pasteur Institute - Classroom

Circa 1920

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

Photographer Lévy et Neurdein réunis
Subject Laboratories, France--Paris, Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)

Illustrations, Ephemera

Ballon-poisson de [Ferdinand] Lagleize

[Ferdinand] Lagleize Fish Balloon

1850 (Date attributed to balloon design)
1909 (Date attributed to postcard)

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…

Artist Molynk, A.
Subject Aeronautics, Postcards, Illustrated works, Hot air balloons, Lagleize, Ferdinand, Ballooning

Illustrations, Ephemera

Airship flown by Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau

Dirigeable de Guyton de Morveau et de Vitry

1784 (Date attributed to balloon flight)
1909 (Date attributed to postcard)

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…