Science Source December 28, 2009 DVD

Total knee replacement of right knee.

Lateral view x-ray of a forearm fracture. There is metal fixation in both the radius and ulnar bones.

This image is a fixation of the lumbar spine (Spinal Fusion), at the level of T-12 through L-5,and S-1.

The local insertion of antibiotic-impregnated materials has been commonly used to supplement surgical debridement of infected tissue and systemic anti...

This MRI demonstrates a HNP (Herniated nucleus pulposus) or "slipped disc".

These lateral x-rays of the lumbar spine show both pre operative & post operative views. The herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), or herniated disk is be...

AP view of the spine of a teenage male showing scoliosis.

Comminuted fracture of the tibial plateau with fixation in place.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist (1743-1794). After Englishman Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774, Lavoisier started examining its pr...

A daguerreotype from 1852 showing a chemist or apothecary at work in his shop.

A postage stamp showing Uraniborg, an astronomical observatory operated by Tycho Brahe, along with Tycho's star, a supernova which flared in 1572. Tyc...

Medieval Arabic scholars watching their teacher demonstrate an astrolabe. In the Middle Ages, there were many observatories in the Arabic world where...

Jons Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848), Swedish chemist. He was expert at blowpipe analysis and discovered several elements while carrying out analyses. He...

The first bone clamp for the external fixation of fractures, as introduced in 1898 by its inventor, the surgeon Clayton Parkhill (1860-1902). The clin...

Like the ancient Greeks, Muslim physicians believed that bleeding a patient could cure many diseases. Although this practice seems crude today, the ea...

The first bone clamp for the external fixation of fractures, as introduced in 1898 by its inventor, the surgeon Clayton Parkhill (1860-1902). This pho...

A box chronometer, which is a ship's chronometer that is mounted in gimbals to preserve its proper position.

Robert Bunsen using a spectroscope. Robert Bunsen (1811-1899) was a German chemist who investigated emission spectra of heated elements and invented t...

Title page of the Canon of Medicine, a 14-volume Arabic medical encyclopedia written by Persian scientist and physician Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and comple...

Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) and his wife Elisabetha observing the stars. This is an illustration from Hevelius' book "Machina Coel...

An historical illustration showing some scientific instruments used to study the chemistry of gases.

Cotton Mather (1663-1728), an influential New England Puritan religious leader and author. He was involved in the Salem witch trials. In the realm of...

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), French zoologist. Cuvier extended the work of Linnaeus in classification by grouping related classes into phyla and extend...

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was an American inventor, famous for inventing or improving devices such as the phonograph and the electric light bulb....

Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in New Jersey, photographed on February 22, 1880. This was the first industrial research lab, in operation from...

Carl Fresenius (1818-1897), a German chemist, known for his studies in analytical chemistry. He was professor of chemistry, physics, and technology at...

Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642), Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.

The Guggenheim family tree. Descendants of a Swiss Jew named Meyer Guggenheim, the Guggenheims made a fortune in the mining and smelting industries. T...

Laxatives, such as cascara, were among the first remedies to be mass-produced.

Thomas Eakins's History of a Jump, 1885, with annotations by Eadweard Muybridge. Artist and photographer Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) did early experimen...

Early studies in high speed photography circa 1890s at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852) founded the scientific study of dinosaurs with his attempt to reconstruct the structure and life of the Iguanodon,...

An historical illustration of radio waves. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) discovered radio waves in 1886-1889. He used Maxwell's theories to constr...

An Islamic cosmographical diagram from 1080 AD. The universal intellect worships God in the Muslim formula 'la ilahah illa'llah', that is, 'there is n...

These instruments are reproductions of those Justus von Liebig used. Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist and professor who devised the method of u...

The laboratory where Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse developed the apparatus for AC systems. George Westinghouse (1846-1914) was an American engi...

Henry Ford museum, Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford (1863-1947) was US car manufacturer and automobile pioneer. He built his first car in his spare time...

This drawing by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's wife and collaborator, Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (1758-1836), shows an experiment in human respiration....

The main workroom in Justus von Liebig's laboratory in Giessen, Germany, 1842. Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist and professor who devised the m...

A contemporary portrait of Marcello Malpighi (1628-94), Italian biologist and inventor of the microscope. Following the theories of Galileo, Malpighi...

Marcello Malpighi's drawings of a chicken from the 19th day of incubation to hatching. Marcello Malpighi (1628-94) was an Italian biologist and invent...

Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852) founded the scientific study of dinosaurs with his attempt to reconstruct the structure and life of the Iguanodon....

Mary Ann Mantell, who with her husband Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852), discovered specimens of Iguanodon teeth in 1822. Gideon Mantell founded th...

Portrait of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist, Nobel Laureate and developer of wireless telegraphy. Marconi came from a wealthy family,...

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) with his second wife Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali (1900-1994) and their daughter Elettra (born 1930) at home. Marconi was...

Portrait of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist, Nobel Laureate and developer of wireless telegraphy. This picture is from the moment in...

An illustration of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), then aged 21, in his father's garden at Pontecchio, conducting early experiments with a transmitter...

Portrait of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist, Nobel Laureate and developer of wireless telegraphy. Marconi came from a wealthy family,...

Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea (1855), the first extensive and comprehensive book on oceanography to be published. Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806...

Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916), an American-born inventor who later moved to Britain and became a British citizen. In 1884, he invented the Maxim Gun...