Class Room Collection (page 7)

Arkady Migdal, Russian physicist
Arkady Beinusovich Migdal (1911-1991), Russian physicist, giving a lecture. Migdal was born in Lithuania. He worked in the fields of particle and quantum physics

Mikhail Lavrentyev, Soviet mathematician
Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentyev (1900-1980), Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist, giving a lecture. Lavrentyevs work included studies of the physics of explosions

Boris Kadomtsev, Soviet nuclear physicist
Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev (1928-1998), Soviet nuclear physicist, talking with a colleague (not seen). Kadomtsev was a pioneer in nuclear fusion research

Oleg Krokhin, Soviet physicist
Oleg Nikolayevich Krokhin (born 1932), Soviet physicist, giving a lecture. Krokhin was one the designers of the quantum generator, and worked with the Nobel laureate Basov on lasers

Geiger-Muller tube measuring radiation from a source, with a ratemeter. The Geiger-Muller tube (at left) is instrument for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation (from the source at right)

Hydrometer floating in a liquid. A hydrometer is an instrument that uses buoyancy to measure the density of a liquid. It consists of a weighted tube that floats vertically in the liquid

Geber, Islamic alchemist
Geber (c.722-c.815), Islamic Spanish alchemist, teaching chemistry. Geber is a Latinised form. His full Arabic name is Jabir ibn Hayyan

Abel Aganbegyan, Soviet economist
Abel Aganbegyan (born 1932), Soviet economist and mathematician, writing on a blackboard. Aganbegyan, of Armenian descent

Learning arithmetic
MODEL RELEASED. Learning arithmetic. 4-year-old boy holding a blackboard with the equation 1+1=2 on it. A fundamental part of human intelligence is the ability to produce abstract representations

Learning physics
MODEL RELEASED. Learning physics. 4-year-old boy holding a blackboard with the equation E=mc2 on it. This equation relates energy (E) and mass (m) by the square of a universal constant

Naval engineering school, 19th century
Naval engineering school. Pupils training at the Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham, Devonport, Devon, UK. This institution was established in 1880 to train engineering officers for the British

Pascals Principle demonstration, 1889
Demonstration of Pascals Principle. This principle stated that pressure exerted on a liquid or gas is transmitted equally to all parts of that liquid or gas

Digital pH measurement

Education, conceptual image
MODEL RELEASED. Education, conceptual image

Magnetic field experiment, 19th century
Magnetic field experiment. Apparatus for enabling magnetic field lines to be seen in 3D and projected onto a screen. Glycerine

Investigating combustion of hydrogen. Image 1 of 3. Experiment to demonstrate the highly reactive nature of hydrogen in air

Conductor in magnetic field experiment. Apparatus used to measure the strength of the force exerted on a current-carrying conductor (copper wire) in a magnetic field

Simulating radioactive decay. Small cubes used to simulate the random action of radioactive decay. Each block represents a nucleus of a radioactive material. Each has one black side

Thermite reaction. Apparatus used to demonstrate the extremely violent reaction of thermite when ignited. Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide

Current melting steel wool. Steel wool attached between two pieces of wire through which a current is being passed. The current is heating up the wool and causing it to melt

Measuring a batterys voltage. Voltmeter connected between the terminals of a battery in order to measure its voltage. The meter is showing a reading of 6.77V

Simple electrical circuit. This circuit consists of a bulb (centre right) connected to a power supply (top left). A voltmeter (bottom left)

Refraction in water waves. Waves of water travel more slowly in shallower areas. Therefore when waves move into a shallower area they bend (refract) at the boundary

Reflection of straight waves on a ripple tank

Circular waves in a ripple tank

William Harvey lecturing on circulation
William Harvey (1578-1657), English physician, dissecting an animal during a lecture on the circulation of blood. By 1616 Harvey had dissected 80 species of animals

Mass-spring system. This system consists of a loaded trolley tethered between two clamp stands by identical springs. Displacing the trolley to one side causes it to oscillate back and forth

Crystalline structure demonstrated using a bubble raft. The bubble raft (or Bragg Raft) consists of a 2-dimensional array of bubbles of uniform size

Magnetic field of a wire around a nail
Magnetic field of wire around a nail. Iron filings on a sheet of paper after the removal of a nail and the wire wrapped around it

Electric field experiment
Electric fields apparatus, set up to demonstrate a linear field. The apparatus produces an electric field between the two plates at right and left

Magnetic field of a bar magnet. Iron filings on a sheet of paper after the removal of a bar magnet. The filings mark the lines of the bar magnets magnetic field

Plant cutting growing roots
MODEL RELEASED. Plant cutting growing roots. Geranium (Geranium sp.) plant cutting growing roots in a jar of water. The cutting will be placed in soil to complete its growth into a new plant

Ruler vibrating
MODEL RELEASED. Ruler vibrating. This ruler is vibrating at its natural frequency (number of vibrations per second)

Collision experiment demonstrating linear motion

Burnt magnesium ribbon. During the combustion of the magnesium ribbon white magnesium oxide is formed

Magnetic field of a solenoid. Solenoid (centre) and iron filings (black) marking the field lines of its magnetic field. A solenoid is simply a coil of electrical wire

Wave diffraction experiment. Waves in a ripple tank passing through an aperture, demonstrating the principle of diffraction. Plane waves are generated on the surface of the water at bottom

Phototropism. Fuchsia plant (Fuchsia sp.) growing to the left towards a light source. This kind of directional plant growth in response to light is regulated by photoreceptors and plant hormones

Diffraction experiment equipment. This is a set of narrow, closely spaced slits called Youngs Double Slits (YDS). The YDS experiment involves passing monochromatic light through these slits

Longitudinal wave in a spring. The wave motion is parallel to the direction of travel, with regions alternating between compression (lower centre) and expansion (upper centre) as the wave passes

Measuring specific heat capacity. Apparatus set up to measure the specific heat capacity of aluminium. An electrical heater (white cylinder), is sitting on top of a piece of aluminium metal

Bent electron beam. Electron beam (bright blue) that has been bent into a circle by an magnetic field

Capillary action of mercury in glass tubes. This shows mercury sinking in a narrow glass tube, relative to a wider glass tube

Capillary action of water in glass tubes. This shows water rising in a narrow glass tube, relative to a wider glass tube. For mercury sinking relative to the outside level of mercury

Resonance experiment. Bartons pendulums, used to demonstrate coupling and resonance. At far left is a heavy pendulum, called the driver pendulum

RUSSIA: STUDENTS, 1917. Workers studying at a Center for Liquidating Illiteracy sometime after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917

FILM STILL: CLASSROOM. From a scene in the silent film Shortys Sacrifice, 1914

SILENT FILM STILL: SCHOOL. Eddie Quillan in The Godless Girl, 1929

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