Thirties Gallery

Astronaut Alan Bean on the Moon

Astronaut Alan Bean on the Moon during the Apollo 12 moon landings, holding equipment for experiments. The second manned mission to land on the Moon, Apollo 12, arrived in the Ocean of Storms on 19 November 1969. Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made two excursions on the surface for a total of 7 hours 45 minutes. They retrieved parts of a robot, Surveyor 3, left there 2.5 years previously, and used seismometers to investigate the seismology of the Moon

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Lie detector test

Lie detector test. Pulse meters on a man'sfingers used for a lie detector, or polygraph, test. Under the subject's hands are the tracesproduced by the polygraph. A polygraph recordschanges in a number of physiological processes, asa series of questions are asked by an examiner. Aswell as measuring heart rate with these pulsemeters, blood pressure and respiration rate arealso measured. The examiner interprets the resultsto determine if the subject demonstrated deceptivebehaviour. The reliability of polygraphs iscontroversial and their evidence is not admissiblein court

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10th Duke with his four children, Billy, Andrew, Anne and Elizabeth at Bolton Abbey, c

3474047 10th Duke with his four children, Billy, Andrew, Anne and Elizabeth at Bolton Abbey, c.1938 (b/w photo)
; Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, UK; (add.info.: Edward William Spencer Cavendish (1895-1950) 10th Duke of Devonshire, known as Marquess of Hartington.
William Cavendish (1917-44) Marquess of Hartington, killed in action in World War II.
Lord Andrew Cavendish (1920-2004) 11th Duke of Devonshire.
Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish (b.1926)
Lady Anne Evelyn Beatrice Cavendish (1927-2010)); © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth; Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; out of copyright

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