Laboratory Collection

Rosalind Franklin
ROSALIND FRANKLIN Pioneer Molecular Biologist she made important contributions to understanding the structure of DNA

Science / Tesla 1899
Nikola Tesla produces artificial lightning in his laboratory at Colorado Springs

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Croatian inventor in his American laboratory

CURIE (1867-1934)
MARIE CURIE Physical Chemist In her laboratory

Mass spectrometer, 1954
Mass spectrometer. Researchers adjusting the controls of a mass spectrometer. This is an all-metal demountable mass spectrometer

Photographic enlarger being used to produce an enlarged copy of a photograph

ATLAS detector, CERN
ATLAS detector. Composite image of the ATLAS (a torodial LHC apparatus) detector (circular) at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland

ATLAS detector, CERN
ATLAS detector. Engineer standing on a platform in front of the ATLAS (a torodial LHC apparatus) detector (circular) at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland

CMS detector, CERN
CMS detector. Part of the CMS (compact muon solenoid) detector at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland

Nikola Tesla / Himmel Erde
NIKOLA TESLA American electrician and inventor, born in Croatia of Serbian parents; seen here in his laboratory at Colorado Springs in 1899/1900

Wet black Labrador Retriever dog (Canis lupus familiaris) at the dog beach, male, domestic dog

Laboratory clamp. This is used to hold and support laboratory equipment. The clamp is attached to a stand, and its arms are adjusted with the screw mechanism at centre

Alchemist tempting to discover the philosophical stone Painting by Joseph Wright Of Derby
JLJ4657580 Alchemist tempting to discover the philosophical stone Painting by Joseph Wright Of Derby (1734-1797) 18th century Sun

Flame tests
Three ceramic dishes each containing burning ethanol. Each dish has a different colour flame due to chemicals that have been added to the ethanol

RAMON Y CAJAL, Santiago (1852-1934). Spanish doctor and histologist, Nobel Prize in 1906. Portrait in his laboratory

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794). French chemist.. Established the composition of the water and the basis of bioenergetics

Bolts of electricity discharging in the lab of Nikola Tesla
Inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla in his lab while his magnifying transmitter high voltage generator produces bolts of electricity. December 1899

Tungsten carbide slip gauge blocks C016 / 2042
Tungsten carbide slip gauge blocks. These are used as a standard form of length measurement. They are precision ground (lapped) to a specific thickness and then stacked to create the required length

Human brain microscope slides. Microscope slides of stained sections of human brain. These slides are from the Harvard Brain and Tissue Resource Centre, USA

Pilot ACE computer, 1950
Pilot ACE computer. Control panel of the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model

FRANKENSTEIN, 1931. Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein

Louis Pasteur in his laboratory. Hand-colored photogravure of an illustration by Albert Edelfelt

Skylab in orbit above Earth at the end of its mission, 1974. Creator: NASA
Skylab in orbit above Earth at the end of its mission, 1974. The Skylab space station, first launched in May 1973, and was occupied in succession by three teams of three crewmembers

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). British chemist and physicist. Faraday in his laboratory. Painting. UNITED KINGDOM. London. The British Museum

A mobile dental surgery, belonging to the French army
A French motor lorry has been converted to make a dentist laboratory, to care for the teeth of the soldiers. The adjustable seat can just be seen

Kodak Cameras 1930S
Putting the finishing touches to Kodak cameras. Date: 1930s

Petri dishes in a stack

Brain protein research. Computer artwork of a brain and coloured dots from a protein microarray. Protein microarrays can be used to follow protein interactions

Seance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research
Undated photograph of corner of the sance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, with trumpets on table. HPG/1/2/1 (vi)

Harry Price in Lab
Psychical researcher and author, who used his knowledge of stage magic to expose phoney mediums, poltergeists and other scams, seen in his laboratory

The Chemist 1827
A chemist with his apprentice in his laboratory. A copper alembic is on his left, to the right a sand heat and a furnace is in the middle. Date: 1827

Curie, Marie and Pierre
In their laboratory in Paris shortly after being awarded the Davy medal for their work by the Royal Society

Laboratory technician
MODEL RELEASED. MODEL RELEASED. Laboratory technician wearing a face mask and hair net

Laboratory chemist writes a chemical formula
MODEL RELEASED. Chemical formula. Female scientist in a laboratory writes a chemical formula on glass while observed by a male scientist

THOMAS EDISON (1847-1931). American inventor. With his Edison Effect lamps in his West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory. Photograph, 1915, digitally colored by Granger, NYC

Advertisement for Manns brown ale -- male model constructing a pyramid of bottles. 1959

ALCHEMIST. Colored engraving after the painting by David Teniers the younger

Micrometer screw gauge. This is an instrument used to accurately measure small distances. Here it is being used to measure the thickness of a piece of wire (upper left)

First chimpanzee in space. Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, in his flight suit. On January 31, 1961, a Mercury-Redstone rocket carrying Ham was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA

Fruit-powered clock. In this experiment each apple is a voltaic cell. The apples have been connected to make a battery

Bacteriologist Elie Metchnikoff in his laboratory. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Handkerchief Knot Test
Test at the National Psychical Laboratory on Rudi Schneider the Austrian spiritualist physical medium. Here, a knot has allegedly been tied paranormally in a handkerchief

Joseph John Thomson
JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON physicist, working at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, circa 1904

The Alchemists Laboratory from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae. n. d
The Alchemists Laboratory from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae.n.d

JJ Thomson, British nuclear physicist, 1898. Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940), the discoverer of the electron, with his students at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (1864-1943). American botanist, chemist, and educator. Lithograph by Richard Brent, c1940

JJ (Joseph John) Thomson (1856-1940) British Nuclear physicist, discovered electron, here with his research students at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, in 1898

Guglielmo Marconi, radio inventor
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor of the radio. Marconi patented his radio system in Britain, established the Marconis Wireless Telegraph Company in London in 1897

The alchemist in his workshop (engraving)
869695 The alchemist in his workshop (engraving) by English School; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Thomas Nortons laboratory, c1477 (1652). Engraving after a manuscript in the British Museum, London, which is probably the earliest illustration of a balance in a glass case

Male pharmacist working with test tubes in laboratory, (B&W)

Jetstream G-AXUI flight mechanics laboratory for the Cranfield Institute of Technology (later Cranfield College of Aeronautics)

Nils and Aage Bohr in laboratory C016 / 8375
Physicists in a laboratory. Physicists Nils and Aage Bohr being shown an early video-microscope used to study nuclear tracks on photographic emulsions

Copy of the Imperial Standard Pound C016 / 2048
Copy of the Imperial Standard Pound. Parliamentary Copy number 5 (P.C.5) of the Imperial Standard Pound, dated 1879

Rudolf II with his alchemist, artwork C013 / 9565
Rudolf II with his alchemist, artwork

THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847-1931). American inventor. Edison in his laboratory. Line engraving, English, 1880

Antoine Lavoisier and wife, chemist
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794, centre left), French chemist, with his wife Marie-Anne- Pierrette (1758-1836) in his laboratory. Lavoisier is recognised as the founder of modern chemistry

Elemental analysis
MODEL RELEASED. Elemental analysis. Laboratory technician using an inductively coupled plasma - atomic optical emission spectrometer (ICP-AES)

Kurchatov and colleagues, Leningrad, 1925
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (1903-1960, right), Soviet nuclear physicist, talking to colleagues at the Leningrad Physical-Technical Institute, Leningrad, Russia

Nikolai Dubinin, Russian geneticist
Nikolai Petrovich Dubinin (1907-1998), Russian geneticist, examining microscope slides in a laboratory

Microbiology caricature, 19th century
Microbiology caricature. The researcher is handling jars labelled as bacterial cultures, while the magnified view at left shows a caricatured appearance of microbes as seen under a microscope

Testing for viruses. A technician using a pipette to fill small sample vials. These are being used to test animal tissue samples for viruses such as avian influenza (bird flu) and swine fever

Particle collision. This event takes place in particle accelerators, which are used to accelerate particles (spheres) such as protons to high energies near the speed of light

Early telephone, historical artwork
Early telephone. Historical artwork of three men gathered around an early telephone. The man at right is talking into the speaking tube

Bose-Einstein condensate simulation. Computer simulation of vortices forming within a spinning Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). A BEC is a state of matter that can arise at very low temperatures

Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French microbiologist and chemist, in his laboratory. Louis Pasteur proved the germ theory of disease, which holds that germs attack the body from the outside

Equal volumes of different materials. From left to right are blocks of brass, balsa wood and polystyrene

Physics experiment. Screen display of the output from a physics experiment. The experiment involves monitoring changing position with time

Victoria College, Alexandria - Chemistry Laboratory
Part of the Chemistry Laboratory at the Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt

Alchemists Laboratory
An alchemist studies an old instruction manual, while his assistant keeps the furnace going. His workshop is filled with state-of-the-art equipment for The Great Work

Chemistry students, Leeds University

18th Century Laboratory
Though the enlightenment is revolutionising science, this lab resembles an alchemists workplace : books by Paracel- -sus and Boerhaave are on the shelves. The shop is beyond

Career of a Naval Surgeon at the Royal Hospital, Haslar (engraving)
1046135 Career of a Naval Surgeon at the Royal Hospital, Haslar (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Career of a Naval Surgeon at the Royal Hospital, Haslar)

Police Bacteriological Laboratory, 1914. From The Beautiful Rio De Janeiro by Alured Gray Bell. [William Heinemann, London, 1914]

Frederic Joliot and Irene Joliot-Curie, French scientists, 1935. Joliot (1900-1958) became assistant to Marie Curie in 1925

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, c1920. Curie (1867-1934), double Nobel Prize winner, seated in her laboratory

Chemistry Laboratory at Eton College, Berkshire
Boys being taught in the Chemistry Laboratory at Eton College, Berkshire. Date: circa 1905

Watneys Happy Families - Mr Reid, the Brewer. circa 1930

Montem Street Higher Elementary School, London - Chemistry
The London School Boards Montem Street Higher Elementary School - boys in a laboratory are surrounded by bottles of chemicals and other chemistry apparatus. Date: early 1900s

investigating rinderpest at Kimberley, South Africa: drawing, 1897
ROBERT KOCH (1843-1910) investigating rinderpest at Kimberley, South Africa: drawing, 1897

EDELFELT, Albert Gustaf (1854-1905). Louis Pasteur. 1885. Pasteur searching in his laboratory. Realism. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 d Orsay (Orsay Museum)

Biology lesson
St Pauls School, Hammersmith, London. Biology Lab, lesson with schoolboys in class 1930s Date: 1930s

Scientist in Metropolitan Police laboratory
A scientist at work in a Metropolitan Police laboratory, during the early days of forensic science. Date: circa 1920s

Ship testing tank, being filled with water from a hose pipe (bottom). This tank was used to test models of ships being developed by engineers

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In the realm of scientific discovery, laboratories have served as the birthplace of countless breakthroughs and innovations. From the pioneering work of Rosalind Franklin in unraveling DNA's structure to Nikola Tesla's electrifying experiments, these hallowed spaces have witnessed some of history's most remarkable scientific feats. Back in 1899, Nikola Tesla's laboratory crackled with bolts of electricity discharging through the air. This visionary inventor pushed boundaries and revolutionized our understanding of electricity, paving the way for modern power systems. His laboratory became a playground for his mind-bending experiments that would shape the world we live in today. Meanwhile, Marie Curie (1867-1934) tirelessly worked in her laboratory on groundbreaking research into radioactivity. Her tireless efforts led to numerous discoveries and earned her two Nobel Prizes – one in physics and another in chemistry. Her legacy continues to inspire generations of scientists who follow in her footsteps. The laboratory is not just a place for individual brilliance; it also serves as a hub for collaborative endeavors. At CERN, home to cutting-edge particle physics research, teams working on projects like the ATLAS detector and CMS detector come together to unlock secrets about our universe’s fundamental building blocks. Science has always relied on precise measurements, which brings us to tools like mass spectrometers and tungsten carbide slip gauge blocks C016 / 2042 used within laboratories worldwide. These instruments ensure accuracy when analyzing samples or calibrating equipment—a testament to meticulousness required by scientists across disciplines. A photograph enlarger stands as an emblematic symbol within any photography lab—an essential tool that allows photographers to bring their images from small negatives into larger prints while preserving intricate details captured through lenses. Laboratory clamps serve as unsung heroes holding apparatuses firmly together during experiments—often overlooked but indispensable components ensuring safety and stability throughout various procedures conducted within these sacred spaces dedicated solely to science.