Science Source December 28, 2009 DVD

Modern marking techniques for amphibians, fish, and even some invertebrates like crayfish includes acrylic elastomer. Acrylic elastomer is injected ju...

Computer-generated conceptual image showing a human brain containing a network of pathways.

Computer-generated conceptual image depicting the outline of a human head, glowing, and superimposed over a starry sky.

Computer-generated conceptual image depicting a human figure holding a triangle aloft, as the sun rises above Earth.

Computer-generated conceptual image showing the pill-filled silhouette of a person ingesting medicine.

Computer-generated conceptual image showing blood cells in a vein or artery near the heart.

Computer-generated conceptual image depicting the sun inside a light bulb.

Francois Magendie (1783-1855), French physiologist. Color enhancement of BM8723.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852-1889), an African-American who invented a shoe-lasting machine that could attach the sole to a shoe in one minute, greatly...

Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852-1889), an African-American who invented a shoe-lasting machine that could attach the sole to a shoe in one minute, greatly...

A portrait of Alfred Nobel, taken not long before his death in 1896. Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish chemist and inventor, joined his fathe...

Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), was a commander in the United States Navy. He was an important oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer. He char...

Maria Mitchell (left) with her assistant at Vassar, 1888. Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) was the first American women to work as a professional astronomer...

The laboratory of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), chemist and physicist and the "father of nuclear physics." He discovered the nature of atomic structu...

A typical chemist's laboratory in the 1890s. Color enhancement of BM8727.

Frederick Law Olmstead (1822-1903), American landscape architect who designed many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in...

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...

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...

Admiral Dot, the Eldorado Elf, stage name of Leopold Kahn, who, beginning in the 1870s, worked in the sidehow tent in P.T. Barnum's traveling museum....

Al Tomaini (1912-1962), born as Aurelio Tomaini, with his wife, "Jeannie the half girl." Jeannie Tomaini (1916-1999), born without legs, was only 2'6"...

Athenian chariot. Illustration from "Der Wagen in der Religion" by Prausnitz.

Athenian chariot. Illustration from "Der Wagen in der Religion" by Prausnitz.

Chang Woo Gow (c.1845-1893), "the Chinese Giant," by Nadar. Nadar was the pseudonym of early French photographer Gaspard-Felix Tournachon (1820-1910)....

Illustration of an early time-keeping mechanism.

A column lifter designed by Francesco di Giorgio (1439-1502), an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and military engineer. This lifter is operated b...

British anthropologist Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), fearing the demise of both the upper classes and of the "highly evolved" white race, was intere...

British anthropologist Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), fearing the demise of both the upper classes and of the "highly evolved" white race, was intere...

British anthropologist Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), fearing the demise of both the upper classes and of the "highly evolved" white race, was intere...

Delores Pullard, the "Amazon Girl." Pullard, born in 1946 in Louisiana, joined the Walter Wanous sideshow when she was 19. She died the age of 24, aft...

An illustration of a drug mill from the late 19th century. Drug mills were used by pharmacists to grind medicinal herbs.

Eugene Berry (born 1872), also known as the Ohio Big Foot Boy. Berry had either elephantitis or Milroy's disease, giving him a giant and deformed leg....

The sideshow midget Tom Sodrie riding in the jacket of George Auger, the Cardiff Giant. George Auger (1883-1922), born in Wales, stood 8'6" tall. Tom...

George Minot in 1934. Minot (1885-1950) won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple for his work o...

Hugh Murphy, known by many names, including Barnum's Famous Irish Giant, the Irish Giant, the Colossal Irish Giant, James Murphy, Patrick Murphy and C...

An artwork from 1876 showing important inventions, including the lightning steam press, the electric telegraph, the locomotive, and the steamboat.

Jack Shields, the Texas Giant (1859-1896), the youngest of four brothers who were all eight feet tall. They were paid $100 a week by P. T. Barnum to a...

Hugh Murphy, known by many names, including Barnum's Famous Irish Giant, the Irish Giant, the Colossal Irish Giant, James Murphy, Patrick Murphy and C...

British anthropologist Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), fearing the demise of both the upper classes and of the "highly evolved" white race, was intere...

British anthropologist Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), fearing the demise of both the upper classes and of the "highly evolved" white race, was intere...

British anthropologist Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), fearing the demise of both the upper classes and of the "highly evolved" white race, was intere...

Mahlon N. Kline (1846-1909) was President and General Manager of Smith Kline & Co., one of the largest pharmaceutical businesses in the United States....

Pictures of the lines of flux around an oscillating dipole from the original paper of Heinrich Hertz. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) discovered rad...

The Russian giant Machnov (c.1882-1912). Fedor Alexiovitch Machnov, who exhibited himself in London in 1905, was reported to have been 9 feet 3 inches...

A turn of the century doctor administers medicine to a young shoeshine boy, c. 1900.

John Ripley Myers co-founded with William McLaren Bristol their Clinton, N.Y. pharmaceutical house as the Clinton Pharmaceutical Co., incorporating as...

Nobel Prize winners in in Physiology or Medicine.

Dr. John Bardeen (1908-1991), Dr. William Shockley (1910-1989), and Dr. Walter H. Brattain (1902-1987) (left to right) shown at Bell telephone laborat...

Watt's first design for an oscillating engine. James Watt (1736-1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer who greatly improved the steam e...

A sketch for Leonardo da Vinci's self-propelling car, which he designed in 1478. It worked loosely on the model of a wind-up toy.

The giant Paul Herold (also known as Paul Paulo) with Zip the Pinhead. Zip the Pinhead was born William Henry Johnson (c.1842-1926). He was an African...