Science:invention Gallery

First use of anesthesia in surgery, 1846

First public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1846.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustratioin

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Galileo attempting to defend his belief in the heliocentric solar system before the Inquisition in Rome, 1633.
Hand colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

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B&O Railroad's Tom Thumb steam locomotive, 1830

Passenger car pulled by Peter Cooper's experimental locomotive "Tom Thumb" on the B&O Railroad, 1830.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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