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This is Diphyllobothrium latum, a tapeworm that might make itself at home inside you if you eat undercooked fish. The picture comes from the 80s but it must’ve been pretty retro even then.
From the CDC description:
This diagram depicts the various stages in the life cycle of the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum, a cestode.
Diphyllobothriasis occurs in areas [...]
This engraving shows a bunch of humans spearing a sea turtle. But wait! A manatee looks on in terror, clutching her child! And thinks back to all the different kinds of harpoons she has seen… and thus far avoided.
Or something like that.
It comes from Alexandre-Olivier Exquemelin’s rollicking History of Filibustering Adventurers*, published in 1744, although I found [...]
This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of Engineering Wonders of the World, this was ripping stuff. The bridge still stands today, because it was designed and built by the Scots, who pay attention to every detail and waste nothing. It was [...]
An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger.
Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital subtraction angiography – taking an X-ray of some body part, injecting fluorescent stuff into the vessels, then taking a second X-ray. Overlay the two images, subtract the non-fluorescent stuff, and you’ve got [...]
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later that he went after Santa Claus in his polar fortress.)
He credited his success with not wasting much time surveying and mapping – he went to the South Pole, took two photographs, claimed it [...]
This device paraded at the inaugurations of President Grover Cleveland and the Statue of Liberty.
It also put out fires, nobly, before the turn of the last century.
Image from the New York Public Library Picture Collection.
Let us take a moment, while contemplating the sleek engineering of the quiet engine sonic inlet, to consider that tie. That man is not a model. He is, in all likelihood, an engineer. An actual rocket scientist. There are no horn-rim glasses, no pocket protectors and neither white coat nor jumpsuit. Perhaps… and I can find no higher resolution [...]
E.D. Leavitt, Massachusetts mechanical engineer, designed many huge machines in the 1870s.They moved things, macerated and mangled them, mined and melted them. Leavitt’s machines did things measured in the millions of gallons.
And his niece was one of the great women of astronomy, too.
[image via Old Book Illustrations]
This early ’60s vision of the future (in all likelihood, right now) was painted by visual futurist Syd Mead, who worked in industrial design as well as making films like Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron look like tomorrow.
I found it on Professor Michael Stoll’s Flickr account, where he describes how he found it:
Sometimes students [...]
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