Check out this beautiful collection of photos of vintage science labs, from the Renaissance to Pasteur and Edison and ENIAC. Labs like these are the source of the shared dream of what science looks like that dominates our contemporary consciousness, even though most labs today look very different.
Female undergraduates at work in the laboratory at Girton College, Cambridge University, c. 1900
Louis Pasteur's laboratory at the Ecole Normale, c. 1885
The laboratory where Tesla and Westinghouse developed apparatus for AC systems
The Alchemist by David Teniers The Younger, mid-1600s
Rogers Laboratory Of Physics
Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rutherford in his lab at McGill, c. 1905
Mrs. M.M. Brooke, a chemist in her laboratory at the Corby Baking Company, c. 1922
Dr. Hale Charch, a member of the team which invented moisture proof cellophane in his laboratory, c. 1927
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie in their laboratory in 1923
Thomas A. Edison Laboratories, Building No. 5., West Orange, New Jersey
Edison Botanic Research Laboratory, Fort Myers, Florida
Plasma from American blood donors is being used during operations at British hospitals in World War II
A man working with laboratory equipment, 1943
Unidentified student in a science laboratory, mid-1940s
ENIAC, the first fully electronic digital computer, 1946
ENIAC, the first fully electronic digital computer, 1946
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