Array Collection (page 5)

Simple leaves, 19th century C015 / 6083
Simple leaves, 19th-century artwork. Simple leaves are those where the leaf either forms a single blade, or is divided into lobes as opposed to the separate leaflets of compound leaves (see C015/6084)

Famous diamonds, artwork
Famous diamonds, historical artwork. Eleven named diamonds arrayed together with four unnamed examples of ordinary diamonds

Pluton space radio receivers, 1969
Space communications. Antennas of one of the ADU-1000 arrays of the Pluton system at Yevpatoria, Ukraine. Pluton was a system used for deep space communications and for space radar studies

Defunct Linnaean taxonomy, 1823 C017 / 8071
Defunct Linnaean taxonomy. 19th-century artworks of mammals and reptiles classified according to now mostly defunct Linnaean taxonomy

Defunct Linnaean taxonomy, 1823 C017 / 8070
Defunct Linnaean taxonomy. 19th-century artworks of a range of mammals classified according to now mostly defunct Linnaean taxonomy

Musical notation and tables, 1823 C017 / 8069
Musical notation and tables, 19th century. At upper left are a set of musical scores, showing examples of musical notation and keys

Mechanics illustrations, 1823 C017 / 8068
Mechanics illustrations, 19th century. Across top are three types of lever, with the weights and pivots in different locations. Below these are several systems of pulleys and a weighing balance

Fish illustrations, 1823 C017 / 8067
Fish illustrations, 19th century. These ten fish are (top to bottom, left to right): a Conger eel; a tube-eye fish (Stylephorus chordatus); a swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

Insect illustrations, 1823 C017 / 8066
Insect illustrations, 19th century. These insects include (from top to bottom): two mantids (Mantis oratoria, now Iris oratoria; and Mantis siccifolia), a cricket (Gryllus montrosus)

Botany illustrations, 1823 C017 / 8064
Botany illustrations, 19th century. These illustrations show plant taxonomy (Linnean classes and orders) as established by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) in his Systema Naturae (1735)

Botany illustrations, 1823 C017 / 8063
Botany illustrations, 19th century. These illustrations show compound leaves. Compound leaves are those where the leaf is divided into separate leaflets

Insect illustrations, 1823 C017 / 8065
Insect illustrations, 19th century. The insects shown here include: a stag beetle (Lucanus cervus, top left); a Papilio swallowtail butterfly (upper right); a Dytiscus diving beetle (top right)

Botany illustrations, 1823 C017 / 8062
Botany illustrations, 19th century. These illustrations show inflorescences (top) and simple leaves (bottom). Inflorescences are clusters of flowers

Astronomy diagrams, 1823 C017 / 8060
Astronomy diagrams, 19th century. These relate to observing and describing the position of stars and other objects in the night sky. Across top are right, oblique and parallel spheres

Astronomy diagrams, 1823 C017 / 8058
Astronomy diagrams, 19th century. At centre is an armillary sphere, a device with moveable interlocking rings representing the circles of the celestial sphere

Human anatomy, 1823 C017 / 8057
Human anatomy. 19th-century illustrations showing the anatomy of a human skull (upper left), brain and spinal column (upper centre), chest and abdominal organs (lungs, heart, liver, stomach)

Middle Eastern alphabets, 1823 C017 / 8056
Middle Eastern alphabets. 19th-century tables showing the scripts and alphabets used in Hebrew, Samaritan (Hebrew and Aramaic), Phoenician (Proto-Canaanite, coin numbers)

Solar panel arrays on tracking bases. The solar panels are arrays of photovoltaic cells which contain silicon, a semiconductor material that absorbs energy from sunlight

Exoplanet types, artwork C016 / 5354
Exoplanet types. Artwork of a range of types of extrasolar planets that have been discovered beyond our Solar System. These exoplanets range from very large gas giant planets (upper right)

Patent medicines, early 20th century C016 / 4561
Patent medicines. Selection of some of the patent medicines sold by Alfred Barns Seelye (1870-1948) from a factory and laboratory next to his home in Abilene, Kansas, USA

Bionic chip, conceptual image C013 / 9868
Bionic chip, conceptual image

Rusty metal tools C013 / 9776
Rusty metal tools. Close-up of a collection of old metal tools that have turned rusty. Rust (orange) is hydrated iron oxide. It forms as iron reacts with atmospheric water vapour and oxygen

HaRP array for auoral research, artwork
HaRP array for auoral research. Artwork of activity in the ionosphere (coloured lights) being triggered and detected by the array of antennas of the HaRP

Solar cell experiments at Biosphere 2 C013 / 5321
Solar cell experiments at Biosphere 2, showing different types of solar panel under test. Biosphere 2, near Tucson, Arizona

Solar cell experiments at Biosphere 2 C013 / 5320
Solar cell experiments at Biosphere 2, showing different types of solar panel under test. Biosphere 2, near Tucson, Arizona

Solar cell experiments at Biosphere 2 C013 / 5316
Solar cell experiments at Biosphere 2, showing different types of solar panel under test. Biosphere 2, near Tucson, Arizona

Chemistry equipment, early 19th century C013 / 5268
Chemical equipment. Early 19th-century artwork depicting a variety of devices and instruments used in chemistry experiments

Human chromosomes, SEMs
Human chromosomes. Collage of coloured scanning electron micrographs (SEMs) of human chromosomes. Chromosomes are a packaged form of a cells genetic material DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

Human chromosomes, SEMs C013 / 4989
Human chromosomes. Collage of coloured scanning electron micrographs (SEMs) of human chromosomes. Chromosomes are a packaged form of a cells genetic material DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

USA, New Mexico, Plains of San Augustin. The 27 Very Large Array antennas that comprise an astronomical radio observatory

Solar panels under a blue sky power Sirena Biological Station in the heart of the Corcovado National Park rainforest. Costa Rica

Australia, Northern Territory, Hermannsburg, Solar Power Generating Station in Outback

Royal Wedding Presents at St Jamess Palace
A general view of the magnificent array of presents in the main salon, one of the three rooms in St. Jamess Palace to which the public were admitted

Apple Orchard
A glorious array of apple trees in blossom in an orchard in Kent, England. Date: 1960s

Guildford Castle Gardens
A glorious array of flowers in bloom in the Castle Gardens, Guildford, Surrey, England. Date: 1960s

Victorian Desserts 1893
An array of mouth-watering late Victorian desserts. Date: 1893

International Space Station solar panels
International Space Station (ISS) solar panels over a limb of the Earth. This is the starboard array on the P6 truss. A total of eight arrays are to be installed. Each array is 33 by 12 metres

Spheres, computer artwork

Gallium nitride nanowires, SEM
Gallium nitride nanowires, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Nanowires, seen here grown in square plots, are artificially grown crystal filaments that measure only a few nanometres

Silicon nanowire device, held by tweezers. This device is coated with billions of tiny nanowires, each measuring a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) in diameter

Zinc oxide nanowires, SEM
Zinc oxide nanowires, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Nanowires are artificially grown crystal filaments that measure only a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) in diameter

Nanowire solar cell. This solar cell is coated with billions of tiny nanowires, each measuring 60 nanometres (billionths of a metre) in diameter and 20 micrometres (thousandths of a metre) in length

Nanowire tweezers, computer artwork
Nanowire tweezers. Computer artwork showing nanowires (grey cylinders) surrounded by an electric field (red and yellow). The electric field, known as an optoelectronic tweezer

Flatbed scanner
Scan head of a flatbed scanner. Flatbed or desktop scanners capture images from printed media using the scan head. The scan head contains a lamp (white tube) that illuminates the image

Small windmill used to drive a pump, which alters water levels in irrigation ditches. Behind the windmill are a row of houses (centre) that have solar panels fitted into the roofline

Domestic solar panelling built into the roofline of a row of houses. Each solar, or photovoltaic, panel is made up of many solar cells that convert light into electrical energy

Solar energy systems. Solar heating tubes (top) and an array of photovoltaic (PV) modules on a house rooftop. A passive solar water heating system comprises individual evacuated glass tubes (EGT)

Solar powered road sign, UK
Solar panel mounted above a signs at a traffic island. The panel generates electricity to illuminate the sign at night. Photographed in the UK

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