Science Art: The Turney Vario Variable Condenser, 1913.
This is from a photographically illustrated advertisement in Hugo Gernsback’s magazine The Electrical Experimenter. The description of this item is as follows: For extreme measurements […]
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SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
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Science Art: Ball-shaped blob of California black worms, 2023.
This is a biological photo that is also a mathematical photo. It’s a ball of worms that Georgia Tech researchers were studying, because, as it […]
Science Art: Smithsonite, from the Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History.
This is a glowing hunk of rock, lit from within. The rock was found in the Kelly Mine in Magadela, New Mexico. Smithsonite is a […]
Science Art: Saturn V-Shuttle-Ares IV comparison, by Bchan.
Some rockets are bigger than others. I think this illustration (which I found here, on Wikimedia Commons) is maybe a better depiction of how space […]
SONG: Inside the Moon
SONG: “Inside the Moon”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: BBC, 15 July 2024, “Cave discovered on Moon could be home for humans“, as used […]
Science Art: Collection of various birds from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 1820.
This is an educational poster, retouched by Wikimedia Commons user Rawpixel, of birds. It’s taken from Oliver Goldsmith’s book A History of the Earth and […]
Science Art: Skull reconstruction of Utahceratops gettyi, 2010.
Here’s a horned dinosaur, or what’s left of one. I found it on Wikimedia Commons, but it was originally found in Utah, then written up […]
Science Art: Trojeborg, a stone labyrinth from Visby, 1919
This is an illustration from Nordisk Familjebok, a Norwegian encyclopedia from the turn of the last century. The labyrinth, naturally, is much older. It’s of […]
Science Art: Saturn Eclipse, Cassini Orbiter, 2006.
This is Saturn, as photographed (yes, it’s a composite photo, not a drawing) by Cassini as it passed in front of the Sun. Our Earth […]
Science Art: The Furnaces of the World…., 1912
This is a Popular Mechanics illustration from 102 years ago that sounds like it could have been written today. Warnings about industrial pollution increasing air […]
SONG: Low Orbit Ion Cannon (a penitential Emperor X cover)
SONG: “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” (a penitential Emperor X cover). ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on any research; it’s a cover of an Emperor […]
SONG: Migration Roads
SONG: “Migration Roads”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on LiveScience, 3 May 2024, “1st Americans came over in 4 different waves from […]
Science Art: Detaching Roll Mechanism, 1912.
This is a device from Cotton Card-Room Machinery, a catalog published by Whitlin Machine Works. I can’t say much about how it works because I’ve […]
Science Art: Interior of right osseous labyrinth, from Gray’s Anatomy.
This is the listening part, the twisting bits of the inner ear. It really does look like a mollusk, doesn’t it? (“Cochlea” literally means “snail” […]
Science Art: Boars’s tusk helmet NAMA6568, Athens, Greece.
This is a photo taken in 2015 by Wikimedia Commons user Jebulon, of a helmet made for a Mycenaean warrior between 3.300 and 3,400 years […]