This is nerd humor from the dawn of the electric age. The “Phoney Patent Offizz” was apparently a regular column in Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical […]
According to the accompanying text, this illustration depicts a baboon species “easily distinguished by its tail, which is four inches long, slender, and exactly like […]
The flame from a Bunsen burner (a standard piece of chemistry equipment; you might have used one in high school) can change color and height […]
Here’s a picture of a distinctive bit of geography. There are hobbits down there, and members of Split Enz and The Chills, and some of […]
This is an ad for a chemical that seemed like a miracle in the 60s (at least to this marketing department), but is one of […]
These are the skulls of two English crocodiles. They were English before the first Anglo-Saxons arrived on that island’s shores. Of course, they also went […]
This is a page of assorted parts – gizmos, “contrivances,” what-have-yous – for doing things in machines. It’s from a catalog of such bits and […]
This is an illustration of a sea creature that, at the time, was (not exactly) new to science. It was new to British science when […]
Advertisements from the 1800s are usually visually striking, but this one is really something else – from the loopy lettering to the drama of the […]
Maybe you saw this image on Twitter with a blurb like: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 […]
The sea cucumber doesn’t look like much until you really look at it. They’re complicated little creatures. They have complicated little parts. In this case, […]
Progesterone is a hormone released by ovaries. It’s made from cholesterol, which might seem odd. It’s a key component in birth-control pills and in hormone […]
Basking sharks are really big. As fish go, only whale sharks get bigger, and only then sometimes. And both of them eat plankton, not sailors. […]
This is an illustration of a defunct theory. The idea being put forward explains sunspots as the impacts of meteors, which come from the rings […]
Solar systems have a “goldilocks zone” where planets capable of sustaining life forms similar to ours can form. Well, galaxies might also have a goldilocks […]
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