Instruments & Innovation

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This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

Start Over Department Archives ✖ Genre Ephemera ✖ Subject Employees ✖ Subject Laboratories ✖

Photographs, Ephemera

Laboratory assistant at mixed acid work bench
- 1920s
General view of a laboratory assistant, identified as "Mac May," posed at a work bench for mixed acid materials. Notably, the photograph is printed as a postcard, with space reserved on the verso for a message, mailing…
- Subject Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Postcards, Glassware, Laboratories
Photographs, Ephemera

Unidentified woman in laboratory
- 1920s
General view of an unidentified woman, presumably a laboratory assistant, posed near a work bench with assorted scientific apparatus and glassware visible in the background. Notably, the photograph is printed as a…
- Subject Women in science, Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Postcards, Glassware, Laboratories, Women employees
Photographs, Ephemera

Laboratory assistant at mixed acid work bench
- 1920s
General view of a laboratory assistant, identified as "Mac May," posed at a work bench for mixed acid materials. Notably, the photograph is printed as a postcard, with space reserved on the verso for a message, mailing…
- Subject Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Postcards, Glassware, Laboratories

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