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Scientific illustration of valves from Engineer's Sketchbook, a beautiful collection of steampunk diagrams.

Science Art: The Engineer’s Sketch-Book, 1508 & 1509.

7 May 2023 grant 0

Two machines, or parts of machines. These are a “Four-Plunger Valve” and “A starter valve” from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances […]

Scientific illustration of a cochlear implant; a bionic ear.

Science Art: Implantatet placeras under huden bakom örat…, 2008.

30 April 2023 grant 0

This image, by Wikimedia Commons user Seslami~commonswiki, shows an implantable electronic device that allows some people to hear, or to hear better. What we’re seeing […]

Scientific illustration of a plesiosaur skull, a marine dinosaur (or dinosaur-like critter) with a long, beaky snout and some sharp-looking teeth.

Science Art: Skull of Trinocromerum willistoni, Dorothea Franzen,1944.

23 April 2023 grant 0

This is the head of a plesiosaur from Kansas, back in the day when Kansas was an inland sea. Or a picture from back in […]

Scientific illustration of a compass rose, a map marking telling us which way we're facing and which direction we should go.

Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.

16 April 2023 grant 0

This is one of four compass roses created by Vincenzo Coronelli, a 17th-century cartographer. I found them all on Wikimedia Commons, which got them from […]

Scientific illustration of a camouflaged wood duck by AH Thayer.

Science Art: Male Wood Duck, by Abbott H. Thayer, 1904.

9 April 2023 grant 0

This is half of one color plate from a book intended to show how “showy” coloration can actually make some creatures harder to spot in […]

Scientific illustration in the form of an orange-and-yellow map showing the thickness of sediments.

Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.

2 April 2023 grant 0

This map shows where silt was laid down untold ages ago. According to its brief description on Wikimedia Commons, it depicts: Loess sediments distribution and […]

Scientific illustration of a space capsule landing on water, photographed by NASA/Keegan Barber.

Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023

26 March 2023 grant 0

SpaceX Dragon Endurance returns to Earth on the night of March 11, 2023. Specifically, it’s just after 9:00 p.m. in the waters off Tampa, Florida. […]

Scientific illustration of a fossii flower, the flower of a cycad.

Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.

19 March 2023 grant 0

This is a photograph of a model from the Field Museum of Natural History, representing a cycad flower reconstructed from a fossil. The fossil came […]

Scientific illustration of the International Space Station, orbiting high above the Caspian Sea, as photographed by Space Shuttle Discovery.

Science Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.

12 March 2023 grant 0

The Space Shuttle Discovery shot this photo of the International Space Station flying high over the Caspian Sea during the STS-114 Return to Flight mission. […]

Scientific illustration of Victorian machinery, a mechanical device used to screw into metal.

Science Art: Britannia Co.’s Patent Screwing Machine, 1890.

5 March 2023 grant 0

“Screws at one single cut,” the ad boasts. This is an ad from the front of The Engineer’s Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, by Thomas W. […]

Scientific illustration of a spiny lobster nymph dyed blue-green for the microscope., all legs and bubble-body and eyes (or tails?) on long stalks.

Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019

26 February 2023 grant 0

It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster! That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examined under a microscope. The […]

Scientific illustration of a pterosaur, a flying dinosaur-like animal called Mimodactylus. It has broad, white, black-rimmed wings and is soaring above a sandy islet in a bright blue lagoon of prehistoric Afro-Arabia.

Science Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.

19 February 2023 grant 0

This is a painting of Mimodactylus libanensis soaring over what Nature (where it was first published) called “Afro-Arabia,” a continent that existed many millions of […]

Scientific illustration in the form of a black-and-white photo of a device used to test how an engine uses up lubrication oil, consisting of a long shaft ending in a gear, lined with rows of tubes and nozzles, with a row of small bottles along the front.

Science Art: Test Apparatus, 1960

12 February 2023 grant 0

A test apparatus, as used for the article “Modification of Force Feed Lubricators” in the 1960-05 edition of Lubrication Engineering. The idea was to study […]

Scientific illustration of a Mars Science Laboratory - that is, a steel capsule not unlike a 1950s concept of a flying saucer - starting to meet resistance in the thin Martian air, with visible plumes of white atmosphere spraying from its underside.

Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011

5 February 2023 grant 0

An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech depicting a capsule starting to slow down in the Martian atmosphere. All we see is the outer structure, which seems mostly […]

A scientific illustration of a DNA molecule, twisting away in front of a wet-looking background.

Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute

29 January 2023 grant 0

An image of the machine that builds our bodies, bit by bit. From the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, located at […]