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Alexander Sachs, American economist and banker

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Alexander Sachs, American economist and banker

Robert R. Furman with the Pentagon layout project

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Robert R. Furman with the Pentagon layout project

Alexander Sachs, American economist and banker

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Alexander Sachs, American economist and banker

Isidor Isaac Rabi was an American physicist who discovered nuclear magnetic resonance

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Isidor Isaac Rabi was an American physicist who di...

Robert Oppenheimer and General Groves at the atomic bomb, Trinity Test site

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Robert Oppenheimer and General Groves at the atomi...

The first atomic bomb was test detonated at Trinity Site

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The first atomic bomb was test detonated at Trinit...

Leo Szilard (1898 – 1964) Hungarian-American physicist and inventor.

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Leo Szilard (1898 – 1964) Hungarian-American physi...

The first atomic bomb was test detonated at Trinity Site

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The first atomic bomb was test detonated at Trinit...

Kurt Diebner, German nuclear physicist

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Kurt Diebner, German nuclear physicist

Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist

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Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist

Leo Szilard (1898 – 1964) Hungarian-American physicist and inventor

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Leo Szilard (1898 – 1964) Hungarian-American physi...

Leo Szilard (1898 – 1964) Hungarian-American physicist and inventor.

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Leo Szilard (1898 – 1964) Hungarian-American physi...

General Leslie Groves Jr.

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General Leslie Groves Jr.

Baltic island of Ruegen, alleged first atomic bomb test. On 12 October 1944

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Baltic island of Ruegen, alleged first atomic bomb...

General Leslie Groves Jr.

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General Leslie Groves Jr.

Ernest Rutherford

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Ernest Rutherford

Portrait of Wilhelm Eduard Weber

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Portrait of Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Diagram of an experiment conducted by J J Thomson

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Diagram of an experiment conducted by J J Thomson

Engraving depicting how Nostradamus

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Engraving depicting how Nostradamus

A scientific experiment on vibration nodes

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A scientific experiment on vibration nodes

Heinrich Hertz's experiments of electromagnetic waves: demonstration proves James Clerk Maxwell's contention that a metallic surface should reflect electromagnetic waves

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Heinrich Hertz's experiments of electromagnetic wa...

Photograph showing particle physics experiment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York

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Photograph showing particle physics experiment at ...

Photograph of a Bev Proton from the Cosmotron colliding with a proton in the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber

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Photograph of a Bev Proton from the Cosmotron coll...

A mercury thermometer and linked apparatus

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A mercury thermometer and linked apparatus

A typical 19th century air pump

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A typical 19th century air pump

Hermann Sprengel's air pump

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Hermann Sprengel's air pump

Illustration showing a stack of paper with a human thumb passing over the surface

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Illustration showing a stack of paper with a human...

An experiment involving an inclined plane used to demonstrate the action of gravity on a falling body

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An experiment involving an inclined plane used to ...

The trajectory of a cannon ball shown as a parabolic path rather than a circular arc

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The trajectory of a cannon ball shown as a parabol...

The design for water wheel driven by perpetual motion

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The design for water wheel driven by perpetual mot...

Australian aboriginal using a bow drill a prehistoric form of drilling tool, which was used to produce fire

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Australian aboriginal using a bow drill a prehisto...

A vortex box used for studying smoke rings

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A vortex box used for studying smoke rings

Three thermometer scales - centigrade, Fahrenheit and Réaumur

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Three thermometer scales - centigrade, Fahrenheit ...

A calibration of a mercury thermometer at boiling point of water at normal atmospheric pressure

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A calibration of a mercury thermometer at boiling ...

Photograph of a LASER FOR SPACE — Gas-filled electronic device whose first job will be to greatly sharpen the accuracy of a new space tracking radar is fired up by an engineer at Sperry Rand's Electro...

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Photograph of a LASER FOR SPACE — Gas-filled elect...

Various applications of the inclined plane

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Various applications of the inclined plane

A lever of the third kind in which the power b) is applied between the resistance p) and the fulcrum c)

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A lever of the third kind in which the power b) is...

Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

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Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

The raising of water by means of a shadoof

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The raising of water by means of a shadoof

Various applications of the inclined plane

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Various applications of the inclined plane

Portrait of Denis Papin

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Portrait of Denis Papin

Engraving depicting an Louis Pasteur experiment demonstrating that fermentation and putrefaction are caused by air-borne organisms

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Engraving depicting an Louis Pasteur experiment de...

Ole Rømer's use of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites to measure the speed of light

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Ole Rømer's use of the eclipses of Jupiter's satel...

Ernest Rutherford

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Ernest Rutherford

An electrical charge being passed through a verified gas in a highly exhausted pear-shaped tube, with cathode at K), and a node at A)

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An electrical charge being passed through a verifi...

Photograph of the first two cyclotron models designed by Ernest Lawrence

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Photograph of the first two cyclotron models desig...

An air condenser

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An air condenser

Hermann Sprengel's exhausting pump

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Hermann Sprengel's exhausting pump

Joseph Black lecturing on latent heat at Glasgow University

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Joseph Black lecturing on latent heat at Glasgow U...

Foucault'S pendulum invented by Léon Foucault

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Foucault'S pendulum invented by Léon Foucault

An experiment involving an inclined plane used to demonstrate the action of gravity on a falling body

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An experiment involving an inclined plane used to ...

A radiometer invented by William Crookes

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A radiometer invented by William Crookes

The design for an air and weight driven by perpetual motion

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The design for an air and weight driven by perpetu...

A bow drill, a prehistoric form of drilling tool, which was used to produce fire

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A bow drill, a prehistoric form of drilling tool, ...

A bow drill, a prehistoric form of drilling tool, which was used to produce fire

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A bow drill, a prehistoric form of drilling tool, ...

Illustration of hydrodynamics, from Galileo 'Discorso intorno alie cose che stanno in su l'acqua'

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Illustration of hydrodynamics, from Galileo 'Disco...

A hydrometer, an instrument that measures the specific gravity

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A hydrometer, an instrument that measures the spec...

Barker'S Mill'

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Barker'S Mill'

Various applications of the inclined plane

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Various applications of the inclined plane

A pair of scissors in which the fulcrum is at C), power is supplied by the hand, and the resistance is the material to be cut

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A pair of scissors in which the fulcrum is at C), ...

The dipping of tallow candles

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The dipping of tallow candles

Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

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Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

Engraving depicting a pulley-system with chains and levers

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Engraving depicting a pulley-system with chains an...

Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

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Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

An Eskimo using a thong drill to produce fire

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An Eskimo using a thong drill to produce fire

Engraving of Australian aborigines preparing a meal beside a river

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Engraving of Australian aborigines preparing a mea...

The use of hand powered pumps being used to raise water into a river

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The use of hand powered pumps being used to raise ...

Photographic portrait of Edward Charles Pickering

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Photographic portrait of Edward Charles Pickering

Portrait of Denis Papin

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Portrait of Denis Papin

Paracelsus

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Paracelsus

Engraving depicting an Louis Pasteur experiment demonstrating that fermentation and putrefaction are caused by air-borne organisms

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Engraving depicting an Louis Pasteur experiment de...

A general view of early x-ray apparatus powered by wet cells

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A general view of early x-ray apparatus powered by...

A radiometer invented by William Crookes

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A radiometer invented by William Crookes

Two boys trying to pull apart two Magdeburg hemispheres

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Two boys trying to pull apart two Magdeburg hemisp...

Instruments for measuring sound waves within water and pressurised air

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Instruments for measuring sound waves within water...

The mechanism of an air pump

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The mechanism of an air pump

Joseph Black lecturing on latent heat at Glasgow University

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Joseph Black lecturing on latent heat at Glasgow U...

A gunner firing ball from a mortar

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A gunner firing ball from a mortar

Marin Mersenne performing an experiment to prove the rotation of the earth: ball fired from vertical cannon did not fall back down the barrel

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Marin Mersenne performing an experiment to prove t...

An electric gyroscope, a device consisting of a wheel or disc mounted so that it can spin rapidly about an axis which is itself free to alter in direction

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An electric gyroscope, a device consisting of a wh...

The path of a projectile according to Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

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The path of a projectile according to Niccolò Font...

A spinthariscopic invented by William Crookes

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A spinthariscopic invented by William Crookes

The application of photographic emulsion to a glass plate by centrifugal action generated

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The application of photographic emulsion to a glas...

Perpetual motion by magnetism

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Perpetual motion by magnetism

Australian aboriginal using a bow drill a prehistoric form of drilling tool, which was used to produce fire

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Australian aboriginal using a bow drill a prehisto...

The studying of vortex rings in liquid

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The studying of vortex rings in liquid

A calibration of a mercury thermometer at boiling point of water at normal atmospheric pressure

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A calibration of a mercury thermometer at boiling ...

A hydrostatic bellows

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A hydrostatic bellows

A nutcracker in which the fulcrum of the lever is at left

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A nutcracker in which the fulcrum of the lever is ...

Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

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Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

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Illustration of an 19th Century mechanical pulley

Illustration of an nineteenth century cog and gear mechanism

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Illustration of an nineteenth century cog and gear...

A micrometre

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A micrometre

Georg Richmann being killed by while repeating Benjamin Franklin's experiment on the electrical nature of lightning: struck by a fireball

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Georg Richmann being killed by while repeating Ben...

Boatmen of the Weser destroying Denis Papin's steam engine

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Boatmen of the Weser destroying Denis Papin's stea...

Engraving depicting Louis Pasteur's first apparatus for cooling and fermenting wort during his work on beer

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Engraving depicting Louis Pasteur's first apparatu...

Photograph of J J Thompson

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Photograph of J J Thompson

High voltage x-ray equipment, x-ray tube on right, Ruhmkorff high voltage coil on left

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High voltage x-ray equipment, x-ray tube on right,...

A case of spontaneous combustion

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A case of spontaneous combustion

Photograph of eight superconducting magnets undergoing final testing at Westinghouse Electric Corporation's cryogenic systems department

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Photograph of eight superconducting magnets underg...

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