This is… well, let me just quote the preface:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Cover, Introduction to Transistors & Transistor Projects, 1972.”This book is intended to show the electronics experimenter how the transistor was developed, how it is manufactured, and how it works.
These are beetles, mostly from southern Asia except the last one, Dexoris, which is from Sierra Leone. These specific beetles became British (perhaps posthumously) and were recorded … Read the rest “Science Art: Lycidae, Plate XVIII, Edw. A. Smith, 1879”
This was one of the attractions in the Machinery Hall of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a blast engine made by the I.P. Morris Company. Why a blast engine? To make Bessemer steel.… Read the rest “Science Art: Blast Engine, 1870s.”
CW: Ends in despair.
French aviation pioneer Alphonse Pénaud designed this, with engineer Paul Gauchot, as an aeroplane that could land on water or on land. That was quite an ambition in … Read the rest “Science Art: Pénaud’s first sketch of an amphibian aeroplane, 1873”
Irisosaurus yimenensis is a dinosaur discovered in 2020 in Yunnan, China, within the Fengjiahe Formation – a layer of sediment and fossils laid down in the Early Jurassic period,… Read the rest “Science Art: Irisosaurus yimenensis life restoration, by Ang Li.”
This is a single microscope from a page of microscopes in the 1797 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which I found on archive.org.
This particular one is a compound microscope. It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Culpeper’s Microscope, 1797.”
This is an image of a thing that happens that is both very fast and also invisible. The colorful blocks are representations of “fast radio bursts” (FRBs) which are sudden surges… Read the rest “Science Art: CSIRO’s ASKAP telescope continues to detect new FRBs…, 2020”
This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers got up close … Read the rest “Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.”
In 1947, Natural History Magazine took a deep dive into potatoes – where they came from and where they’re going … and growing. The story “Saga of the Earth Nut”… Read the rest “Science Art: Yearly Potato Production, from Natural History Magazine, March 1947.”
This is a chromolithograph by James Ackerman made of a watercolor by Seth Eastman who was copying an Ojibwe music board – a birchwood slab somebody picked up in the Northern Great Lakes… Read the rest “Science Art: Meda Songs, 1851”
There’s a new space telescope getting ready to do its thing now, but here’s a look back to when the last one was brand new. It’s a NASA image hosted by the San Diego Air and… Read the rest “Science Art: The Hubble Space Telescope is lifted into the workstands…, 1990”
An ad from the first issue of the Journal of the Society for Informational Display. This machine could receive up to 26 teletype messages of 145 characters each (so longer than pre-2017 tweets),… Read the rest “Science Art: United Aircraft Display Transmssion Generator ad, 1964.”
This is a European cherry fruit fly, one of those creatures whose names say exactly what they are: a fruit fly that lives on cherries in Europe. The image came from the 1920 edition of Nordisk… Read the rest “Science Art: La Mouche des cerises (Rhagoletis cerasi), d’après une ancienne encyclopédie suédoise, 1920”
This is a pair of water-voles looking ready for a Wind in the Willows-style adventure, only without any waistcoats or trousers. They’re featured in a chapter on “The Rabbit”… Read the rest “Science Art: Water-voles, 1911.”
An image of science in the abstract, the spirit of science as imagined at the dawn of the Space Age, from the National Postal Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institutions.
From the description… Read the rest “Science Art: 5c The Sciences single, U.S. Postal Service, 1963.”
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