Science and Technology

Landing of the Atlantic Cable

Samuel F. B. Morse

Thomas Edison and others evaluate wax-recording phonograph, 1892

Thomas Edison in 1925

Reconstruction of Edison's Menlo Park lab

Thomas Edison in his lab, 1901

Edison's lab at Menlo Park, NJ, 1880

Thomas Edison in a lab, 1920

Thomas Edison with dynamo, 1906

Thomas Edison with first typewriter in 1921

Thomas Edison with inventions in 1913

Thomas Edison in 1904

Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon manuscript pages

Roger Bacon conducts experiment

Roger Bacon conducts experiment

Nicholas Copernicus

Isaac Newton

Henri Becquerel

Albert Einstein

Valentina Tereshkova

Chart of the Gulf Stream by James Poupard and Benjamin Franklin

Chart of the Gulf Stream annotated by Benjamin Franklin

Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream

Benjamin Franklin map of Gulf Stream

Buzz Aldrin works on spacecraft

NACA seal

Final meeting of NACA

T. Keith Glennan

Hugh L. Dryden

Gemini 4 astronauts meet Yuri Gagarin

Astronaut tests safer spacewalk system

Astronaut with jetpack maneuvers in space

Astronaut floats in space

McCormick Harvester

McCormick self-rake reaper of 1864

First trial of McCormick Reaper

McCormick harvester/wire binder of 1876

Destruction of printing presses in Mayence