Images Dated 11th October 2000

Stylus in LP record
Stylus on LP record. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a stylus travelling through the grooves of a stereo vinyl record. The grooves are cut into a flat disc of polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

Trilobite fossil. Fossilised Myopsolenus sp. trilobite. The trilobites lived from the Lower Cambrian to the Late Permian period (around 543- 248 million years ago)

Pilobolus fungus
Fungus sporangiophores. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of sporangiophores of a Pilobolus sp. fungus, growing on dung

Princess Sophia of Greece and her fiance Don Juan Carlos, Pretender to the Spanish throne, pictures here sitting at a piano at Claridges this afternoon. 31st January 1962

Compact disc surface. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the surface of an audio compact disc exposed to show the musical layer below

SEM of Paramecium
Paramecium. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the single-celled protozoan, Paramecium caudatum

SEM of bat hair
Bat hairs. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of shafts of hair from Daubentons bat, Myotis daubentoni. Each hair shaft has an outer cuticle made up of overlapping scales or plates

Ash tree pollen grains. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of pollen grains from the Ash tree, Fraxinus excelsior

Trilobite fossils. Two Diacalymene ouzregui trilobite fossils. The trilobites are an extinct group of marine arthropods with a hard shell that is divided into 3 sections

Trilobite fossil. Fossilised Ellipsostrenua sp. trilobite. The Ellipsostrenua group lived from the Lower Cambrian to the Upper Devonian period (around 543-380 million years ago)

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