Science Art | The Guild of Scientific Troubadours

Scientific Illustration of an electronic component, an amplifying receiver

Science Art: Amplifying Receiver, Sketch 1, April 1916

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Click to embiggen slightly Electronics in 1916, from an article on making headphones for receiving radio transmissions in QST, the amateur wireless magazine of the […]

Scientific illustration of astronaut training equipment: a simulator in three axes.

Science Art: Block diagram illustrating the simulator setup and primary tracking task, 1960.

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Click to embiggen Astronauts gotta learn how to astronaut. This is from a NASA document from 1960 called Technical Note D-546: Experience with a Three-Axis […]

Scienitific illustration of jellyfish from the 1800s, the Valdivia Expedition

Science Art: Taf. II: Palephyra indica, Atorella subglobosa, Sanderia malayensis, 1902.

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Click to embiggen These are from Die acraspeden Medusen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition: 1898-1899, the first of two volumes on jellyfish written by Ernst Vanhöffen, a […]

Scientific illustration of a mouse embryo, taken with optical projection tomography, showing how loss of the BMP Antagonist expresses itself in syndactyly - in other words, a syndrome in which gene differences affect how fingers and toes grow.

Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011

9 February 2020 grant 0

Click for rotating ogv video This is a video of a mouse, not yet born, that already has some issues; specifically “Waardenburg-Anophthalmia Syndrome.” It’s originally […]

Scientific illustration of a puffball, sweetbread, horn of plenty and chanterelle mushroom, from Edible and poisonous mushrooms:. London,Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,1894..

Science Art: Plate 7: Sweetbread, Horn of Plenty, Puffball, Chanterelle, from Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, 1894.

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Click to embiggen vastly. Mushrooms you can trust. I think. From the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr collection “Edible and poisonous mushrooms: what to eat and […]

A stereoscopic image of Mars. Or half of a stereo image, at least.

Science Art: Ophir Chasma, ESP_062483_1755, by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory HiRise.

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Click to embiggen vastly This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is

Scientific illustration of a fusion reactor, more efficient (and smaller) than a tokamak

Science Art: Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator (QPS), 2007

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Click to embiggen This is a fusion reactor that was never built, a small power plant that takes the principles of a tokamak (use super-heated […]

Scientific illustration of Mayan pyramids by Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck, 19th century.

Science Art: Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon (1825-1835), by Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck

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Click to embiggen A painting of Mayan pyramids by a mysterious man, described on Public Domain Review (where I found this image) as an “artist, […]

A scientific illustration (in the form of a cartoon) depicting the coming age of helicopters, when police will simply be able to hover by your high-rise apartment window to conduct their inquiries.

Science Art: From The Helicopters Are Coming, 1944.

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Click to embiggen This illustration, by Erik Nitsche and Roslyn Welcher, is from a book by CBF Macauley that claims to be “the first complete […]

Scientific illustration of an induction coil from The How and Why of Radio Apparatus. It's an old electric image. Antique equipment FTW.

Science Art:Induction Coil Cutaway, 1920

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Click to embiggen From Harry Winfield Secor’s The How and Why of Radio Apparatus, from the Experimenter Publishing Co., which you can read here. Electricity […]

Scientific illustration of synapsid reptiles, which are not dinosaurs really, but include things like Dimetrodon, from The Dinosaur Book.

Science Art: The evolution of the synapsid reptiles, by John C. Germann,1945

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Click to embiggen These are not dinosaurs – they’re older than that – but they are in The Dinosaur Book, Edwin H. Colbert’s 1945 guide […]

Scientific illustration as heraldry: a dinosaur coat of arms for Dornogovi Province, Mongolia

Science Art: Coat of Arms of Dornogovi Aimag in Mongolia

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Click to embiggen A dinosaur in a coat of arms for Dornogovi Province, Mongolia. It’s from Wikimedia Commons’ “Dinosaurs in Heraldry” section. As UNESCO reminds […]

scientific illustration of a blended wing aircraft, or hybrid wing body, a jet concept tested by NASA

Science Art: Hybrid Wing Body, NASA, 2013

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Click to embiggen NASA, for a while, was looking at different ways an aircraft’s body could be used to generate lift, rather than having wings […]

Scientific illustration of a lilac kingfisher, an Indonesian bird, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Science Art: Pl. 119 Cittura cyanotis, from A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers by Richard Bowdler Sharpe.

1 December 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen slightly A lilac kingfisher, as pictured in the 1800s in A Monograph of the Alcedinidae, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It’s […]

Scientific illustration of rat neurons stained with antibodies in green, red and blue.

Science Art: Neurons from rat brain tissue stained green with antibody to ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1)… by Gerry Shaw, 2005

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Click to embiggen Glia are the cells around neurons that manufacture myelin (the insulation around nerve cells), help repair cell damage and, apparently, have something […]