Welcome to Cleveland, spaceman! This was a training device from what was the Lewis Research Center and is now the John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
It was located inside the… Read the rest “Science Art: The MASTIF, or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility.”
Reinhold Thiele painted this limber-looking blue shark for the book British Salt-Water Fishes.
I found it on Wikimedia Commons, but they got it from University of Washington’s … Read the rest “Science Art: Blue Shark (Carcharias glaucus), 1904.”
These are not headphones, exactly. This is a thing made of telephone parts designed to help electrical tinkerers do better tinkering.
It’s from a page called “Latest Patents”… Read the rest “Science Art: Phone Tester for Electric Circuits, Patent No. 1,187,500; issued to G. B. Raymond.”
This is a triops, a three-eyed critter something like a trilobite (though it’s not actually one of those at all). From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Triops longicaudatus, by Steve Jurvetson, 2005”This relic from the Devonian
This is a picture of bones, the mineral density of bones, giving us a hint of their interior structures.
From the NIH Image Gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Dlx3 deletion in osteoblast progenitors induce increased trabecular bone formation, 2015.”This image shows micro computed tomograophy
This is a painting for NASA of the formation of a distant solar system, used to illustrate the article “Formation of the Solar System: Birth of Worlds.”
It’s showing … Read the rest “Science Art: Exocomets Around Beta Pictoris – Artist View, 2013.”
This is the frontispiece to A New Astronomy for Beginners, by David P. Todd, an 1897 textbook on the latest astronomical breakthroughs. The passage on page 298 about total eclipses says … Read the rest “Science Art: Total Eclipse of the Sun (from a painting by Kranz), 1897”
From the June 1949 issue of Natural History, the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History (which is archived here) comes a handy reference guide for telling the temperature based… Read the rest “Science Art: The Cricket Thermometer, by Cleve Hallenbeck.”
This view of North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the curvature of the Earth was taken by the ISS on May 19, 2012. The station was looking down from 218 nautical miles (404km) overhead.… Read the rest “Science Art: ISS031-E-59517 (Libya: PAN-TRIPOLITANIA, CYRENAICA, G. SIDRA, ISS)”
An illustration from a book the title of which begins Bawkunst Oder Architectur aller fürnemsten/ Nothwendigsten/ angehœrigen Mathematischen vnd Mechanischen Kuensten/ eygentlicher… Read the rest “Science Art: Flight Trajectory by Walther Hermann Ryff, 1582.”
From an impressive page of bird diagrams in the Rand, McNally & Co.’s Encyclopedia and Gazetteer. “Birds are in some ways the highest of vertebrate animals,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Head of Falcon, Showing Beak, Nostril, Eye, and Ear…, 1889”
This is a photo taken by the Mars helicopter Ingenuity‘s navigational camera. Although it doesn’t say so in the NASA image gallery where I found the photo, I’m pretty… Read the rest “Science Art: Black and White Image From Ingenuity‘s Third Flight, April 2021.”
This is an advertisement in the back of the May/June 1965 issue of Information Display, the journal of the Society for Information Display. It’s a technical magazine for computer… Read the rest “Science Art: Car 5400, where are you?, 1965.”
A cute little dinosaur, about the size of greyhound and just as much built for speed. Which is strange, because on the other end – the snout and teeth – it seems to have been built… Read the rest “Science Art: Alvarezsaurus calvoi, Reconstruction, by Karkemish.”
An illustration of two reptiles, from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium II. These two creatures were painted sometime in the first decade of the 1700s by German illustrator Dorothea… Read the rest “Science Art: Spectacled Caiman and a False Coral Snake by Dorothea Maria Graff”
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