Laboratory Equipment Collection

Bus Driver
March 1929: A set of instruments on a bus route survey vehicle for measuring distance, gradient and camber on roads used by the London General Omnibus Companys fleet of buses

Praxinoscope Theatre
circa 1890: The Praxinoscope Theatre, complete with its case, a set of bands in colour on which the images are printed. Mirrors, a candle and a hood are needed to operate the equipment

Microscope, light passing through lenses and focusing on glass slide, light also reflecting from mirror onto underside of object being viewed, angled view

Illustration of laboratory worker handling radioactive materials through holes in a glass tank, and wearing protective clothing

Illustration of scientist working in a laboratory

Andes Christ
circa 1950: The statue of Christ of the Andes at a height of 12, 500 feet on the Bermejal or Uspallata Pass between Mendosa, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile

Girton Laboratory
circa 1900: Female undergraduates at work in the laboratory at Girton College, Cambridge University. The college, founded in 1869, was the first for female undergraduates

Radiotelescope
15th January 1963: A radiotelescope in Nancay, France. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Telescope
circa 1950: Mark II radio telescope, Jodrell Bank. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Chemist holding test tube in studio, (B&W), portrait

Steel Mast
May 1919: A 450 foot steel mast at Marconis Station. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Signal Failure
1950: A short-lived device for signalling with electricity, used briefly in the early days of the railways in Britain. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hemispherical
Circa 1580, A Hemispherical, made by Hyeroimus Vulperica, in 1580, part of a complete collection of 16th century astronomical

Telegraphy Worker
A man in Britain receives a telegraph message from India, January 1909. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mind Machine
A woman whose head is attached to a machine which resembles a large hairdryer, but is in fact a Lavery Electric Automatic Phrenometer, for measuring brain activity

Speed Trap
1st December 1978: PC Alex McHattie aiming a radar speed gun (VASCA) at a car. (Photo by Roy Chaplin/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Chemical Lecture
A scientific demonstration in front of an audience. Original Artwork: Cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Artificial Lightning
19th January 1951: An artificial lightning generator at Queen Mary College, London. (Photo by Norman Vigars/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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