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Background imageExperimental Collection: Wilbur and Orville Wright with Flyer II at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, USA, May 1

Wilbur and Orville Wright with Flyer II at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, USA, May 1, 1904. The Wrights had a much more difficult time testing their aircraft at Huffman Prairie than at Kill Devil

Background imageExperimental Collection: Wright Brothers Glider Tests, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, USA, October 10, 1902

Wright Brothers Glider Tests, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, USA, October 10, 1902. Historic photo of the Wright brothers third test glider being launched

Background imageExperimental Collection: Experiments with the Armstrong 600-pounder against the Warrior floating target, 1864

Experiments with the Armstrong 600-pounder against the Warrior floating target, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Section of the Warrior floating target, showing the hole made by the 600-pound shell and the displacement of the upper plate, 1864

Background imageExperimental Collection: Experiments with the Armstrong 600-pounder against the Warrior floating target, 1864

Experiments with the Armstrong 600-pounder against the Warrior floating target, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Experiments with the Armstrong 600-pounder against the Warrior floating target, 1864. 'The sight presented by the target when struck was very grand

Background imageExperimental Collection: Experiments with Captain Fowke's pontoon bridge on the Serpentine, 1860. Creator: Unknown

Experiments with Captain Fowke's pontoon bridge on the Serpentine, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Experiments with Captain Fowke's pontoon bridge on the Serpentine, [London], 1860. The pontoon to be tested consists of an oblong framework of wood and iron

Background imageExperimental Collection: Musical theories of Pythagoras, 1492. Creator: Unknown

Musical theories of Pythagoras, 1492. Creator: Unknown
Musical theories of Pythagoras, 1492. Men playing musical instruments and making sounds. At top left, an anvil is struck with hammers

Background imageExperimental Collection: The Winans Ocean Steamer as she will appear at sea, 1858. Creator: Smyth

The Winans Ocean Steamer as she will appear at sea, 1858. Creator: Smyth
The Winans Ocean Steamer as she will appear at sea, 1858. The Cigar Ship, a singular vessel which was launched near the Ferry Bay at Baltimore

Background imageExperimental Collection: The Winans Steam-vessel - end view, 1858. Creator: Unknown

The Winans Steam-vessel - end view, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Winans Steam-vessel - end view, 1858. The Cigar Ship, a singular vessel which was launched near the Ferry Bay at Baltimore

Background imageExperimental Collection: Experiments made with Stevens's Bread-making Machine at Marylebone Workhouse, 1858. Creator: Unknown

Experiments made with Stevens's Bread-making Machine at Marylebone Workhouse, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Experiments made with Stevens's Bread-making Machine at Marylebone Workhouse, 1858. Mr. Stevens, the inventor of the A B C bread-making machine, is a practical baker

Background imageExperimental Collection: Fremantle in Western Australia: Rottnest Island, the Proposed New Convict Establishment... 1857

Fremantle in Western Australia: Rottnest Island, the Proposed New Convict Establishment... 1857. Creator: Unknown
Fremantle in Western Australia: Rottnest Island, the Proposed New Convict Establishment, in the distance, 1857. By reference to the report of the important measure introduced to the House of

Background imageExperimental Collection: Experimental Tandem Biplane On Potomac Embodying Langley Principles, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Experimental Tandem Biplane On Potomac Embodying Langley Principles, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Experimental Tandem Biplane On Potomac Embodying Langley Principles, 1917. Related to Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute

Background imageExperimental Collection: Experimental Tandem Biplane On Potomac Embodying Langley Principles, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Experimental Tandem Biplane On Potomac Embodying Langley Principles, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Experimental Tandem Biplane On Potomac Embodying Langley Principles, 1917. Related to Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute

Background imageExperimental Collection: Experimental Tandem Biplane On Potomac Embodying Langley Principles, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Experimental Tandem Biplane On Potomac Embodying Langley Principles, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Experimental Tandem Biplane On Potomac Embodying Langley Principles, 1917. Related to Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institute

Background imageExperimental Collection: Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920
Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920. USA. Man and woman with scientific apparatus

Background imageExperimental Collection: Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920
Home Economics Section, between 1910 and 1920. USA. Women in an industrial kitchen

Background imageExperimental Collection: Model airplane, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Model airplane, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Model airplane, between 1910 and 1920
Model airplane, between 1910 and 1920. USA. Scientific apparatus with propellers

Background imageExperimental Collection: Laboratory, between 1909 and 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Laboratory, between 1909 and 1914

Laboratory, between 1909 and 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Laboratory, between 1909 and 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Laboratory, between 1909 and 1914. USA. Man on left using a telephone, man on right wearing headphones and operating scientific apparatus

Background imageExperimental Collection: City experiment in gardening, New York City, c1922. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

City experiment in gardening, New York City, c1922. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
City experiment in gardening, New York City, c1922. Three men, in foreground, in garden project in New York City park

Background imageExperimental Collection: City experiment in gardening, New York City, c1922. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

City experiment in gardening, New York City, c1922. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
City experiment in gardening, New York City, c1922. Group of people watching gardener at work in garden project in New York City park

Background imageExperimental Collection: Frank G. Carpenter at an experimental farm, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown

Frank G. Carpenter at an experimental farm, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Frank G. Carpenter at an experimental farm, between c1900 and 1916

Background imageExperimental Collection: Hallett's pedigree nursery wheat, 1862. Creator: Unknown

Hallett's pedigree nursery wheat, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Hallett's pedigree nursery wheat, 1862. The original ear, A, was selected in 1857 from a large crop of "nursery" wheat, not because of its great size

Background imageExperimental Collection: Nakajima Mamoru 11, Radial 14 Engine, Circa World War II. Creator: Fuji Koku Keiki

Nakajima Mamoru 11, Radial 14 Engine, Circa World War II. Creator: Fuji Koku Keiki
Nakajima provided Japan with its first large radials by building licensed Bristols beginning in the late 1920s, and Gnome-Rhone engines beginning in 1936

Background imageExperimental Collection: Eugene Lauste recording the first combined moving image and sound, c1905, (1935)

Eugene Lauste recording the first combined moving image and sound, c1905, (1935). Eugene Lauste may be seen already experimenting with " Talkies"

Background imageExperimental Collection: Members of the experimental staff... North American Aviation, Inc, plant, Inglewood, Calif. 1942

Members of the experimental staff... North American Aviation, Inc, plant, Inglewood, Calif. 1942
Member[s] of the experimental staff at the North American Aviation, Inc. plant, observe wind tunnel tests on an accurate scale model of the B-25 (" Billy Mitchell" ) bomber, Inglewood

Background imageExperimental Collection: An experimental scale model of the B-25... North American Aviation, Inc. Inglewood, Calif. 1942

An experimental scale model of the B-25... North American Aviation, Inc. Inglewood, Calif. 1942
An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc. Inglewood, Calif. This plant produced the B-25 bomber

Background imageExperimental Collection: Cultivating tobacco at the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration... Puerto Rico, 1941

Cultivating tobacco at the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration... Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Cultivating tobacco at the [Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration] experimental area, vicinity of Cayey, Puerto Rico

Background imageExperimental Collection: 1940 Bedford MWD experimental truck. Creator: Unknown

1940 Bedford MWD experimental truck. Creator: Unknown
1940 Bedford MWD experimental truck

Background imageExperimental Collection: Inflatable Station Concept, 1961. Creator: NASA

Inflatable Station Concept, 1961. Creator: NASA
Inflatable Station Concept, 1961. Unlike many other early space station concepts, this design actually made it out of the concept phase and into production, though no models were ever flown

Background imageExperimental Collection: Henry Sachs with Robert Goddards Rocket in New Mexico, USA, 1930. Creator: NASA

Henry Sachs with Robert Goddards Rocket in New Mexico, USA, 1930. Creator: NASA
Henry Sachs with Robert Goddards Rocket in New Mexico, USA, 1930. Henry Sachs, machinist, is shown with Dr. Robert H. Goddards rocket used in the first flight at Roswell, New Mexico on December 30

Background imageExperimental Collection: American physicist James Van Allen with Pioneer 4, USA, 1950s. Creator: Unknown

American physicist James Van Allen with Pioneer 4, USA, 1950s. Creator: Unknown
American physicist James Van Allen with Pioneer 4, USA, 1950s. Professor James Van Allen of the University of Iowa is best known for his discoverery in 1958 of the two belts of charged particles in

Background imageExperimental Collection: Orville Wright tests his glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, 1911. Creator: NASA

Orville Wright tests his glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, 1911. Creator: NASA
Orville Wright tests his glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, 1911. On October 24, 1911 Orville tested a new glider and broke all the previous gliding records by actually soaring

Background imageExperimental Collection: Bell X-14A Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft, USA, 1962. Creator: NASA

Bell X-14A Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft, USA, 1962. Creator: NASA
Bell X-14A Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft, USA, 1962. Landing on the lunar surface is simulated by the NASA Ames Research Centers Bell X-14A VTOL aircraft

Background imageExperimental Collection: Langley Quarter-scale Aerodrome, 1903. Creator: Smithsonian Institution

Langley Quarter-scale Aerodrome, 1903. Creator: Smithsonian Institution
Model of the unpiloted, tandem-wing experimental aircraft built and tested by Samuel P. Langley, powered by a five-cylinder radial internal combustion gasoline engine of about 3.2 horsepower

Background imageExperimental Collection: Curtiss Modified Model L, V-8 Engine, Circa 1910. Creator

Curtiss Modified Model L, V-8 Engine, Circa 1910. Creator
Curtiss was one of the most successful early American aircraft engine manufacturers. The first Curtiss engines were air cooled but, to achieve higher power

Background imageExperimental Collection: Huck Press experimental plate proof, 1957. Creator: Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Huck Press experimental plate proof, 1957. Creator: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Huck Press experimental plate proof, 1957. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing adopted state-of-the-art printing technologies that transformed stamp production

Background imageExperimental Collection: Presidential Series Washington experimental plate proof, 1938

Presidential Series Washington experimental plate proof, 1938. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced this experimental plate

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 26: Expression of painful attention and attention, attentive gaze

Figure 26: Expression of painful attention and attention, attentive gaze. 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 53: Whimpering and false laughter, 1854-56, printed 1862

Figure 53: Whimpering and false laughter, 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 39: The attention attracted by an object that provokes lascivious

Figure 39: The attention attracted by an object that provokes lascivious ideas and desires. 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 9: A study of m. frontalis in maximum contraction, 1854-56, printed 1862

Figure 9: A study of m. frontalis in maximum contraction, 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 15: Meditation, mental concentration, 1854-56, printed 1862

Figure 15: Meditation, mental concentration, 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 27: Expression proportionally more pained, 1854-56, printed 1862

Figure 27: Expression proportionally more pained, 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 81: Lady Macbeth, moderate expression of cruelty, 1854-56, printed 1862

Figure 81: Lady Macbeth, moderate expression of cruelty, 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 42: Gaiety expressed by the ideas of lustfulness, cynicism, and le

Figure 42: Gaiety expressed by the ideas of lustfulness, cynicism, and lewdness. 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 10: Showing the expressive lines of m. frontalis in a young girl, 1854-56

Figure 10: Showing the expressive lines of m. frontalis in a young girl, 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 55: Astonishment badly rendered by the subject: a ridiculous and i

Figure 55: Astonishment badly rendered by the subject: a ridiculous and inane expression. 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 21: Painful recollection and recollection or calling something to

Figure 21: Painful recollection and recollection or calling something to mind, 1854-56, printed 1862

Background imageExperimental Collection: Figure 71: Same head as in Plate 70, 1854-56, printed 1862. Creators: Duchenne de Boulogne

Figure 71: Same head as in Plate 70, 1854-56, printed 1862. Creators: Duchenne de Boulogne, Adrien Alban Tournachon
Figure 71: Same head as in Plate 70, 1854-56, printed 1862



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