A light comes from an open grave. Illustration for “William and Marjorie.” Popular British ballads. 1894.
A light comes from an open grave. Illustration for “William and Marjorie.” Popular British ballads. 1894.
Campfire, Summit Lake, Palisades Interstate Park. New York/ New Jersey. July 1915. Lantern slide.
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“A sensation of terrific, blistering heat emanating from a sphere.” Astounding. February 1937.
O gnat tango in the hot, ochered light
“Class of apprentice welders and their supervisor.” Eye hazards in industry. 1941.
A glow, known as Cerenkov radiation, produced in heavy water surrounding a nuclear reaction. Frontiers of Physics. 1968.
Campfire, Summit Lake, Palisades Interstate Park. New York/ New Jersey. July 1915. Lantern slide.
“Star cluster, by Helmut Wimmer, Hayden Planetarium.” n.d. AMNH Research Library.
Eclipse of the sun, 1905. Knowledge. October 1905.
“Odylic light and human nervaura.” Human magnetism, or, How to hypnotise. 1904.
Total solar eclipse of June 8, 1918. Developed to show extension of the corona. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 1919.
Phosphorescence, or, The emission of light by minerals, plants, and animals. 1862. Frontispiece detail.
Campfire, Summit Lake, Palisades Interstate Park. New York/ New Jersey. July 1915. Lantern slide.
Heaters used to fight off frost in a California citrus grove. Biology, the story of living things. 1937.