Science Education Collection (page 2)

SAGE station and light gun, on display at the Computer History Museum, USA. The SAGE (semi- automatic ground environment) system went into operation in 1963

Tin can telephone being used by two boys. The boy at left is speaking into one of the cans, and the sound waves are being transmitted along the string to the other can

Solar panel at the ECO Centre, Wales
Solar panel at the ECO Centre, Newport, Wales, UK. The ECO Centre is a public education centre designed to promote environmental issues connected with energy use

Lego model and and its constructors
Lego display model. Model made out of Lego bricks and other Lego parts. Models such as this are built for display at promotions, toy and science fairs, and department stores

Leonardo da Vinci museum, Italy
Leonardo da Vinci museum. The building at right, the Castello dei Conti Guidi, in the town of Vinci, Italy, houses the Museo Leonardiano. The building dates from the 13th century

Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland, the research centre where the British researchers Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell created Dolly the sheep in 1996

Da Vinci coat-of-arms, Leonardo museum
Da Vinci coat-of-arms on the wall of a farmhouse in Anchiano, a village near Vinci, Italy. This is thought to be where the Italian artist

Boys breath condensing in cold air
MODEL RELEASED. Breath condensing in cold air. Boy watching the water vapour in his breath condensing into mist on a cold winters day

Sanger Centre used for the human genome project

Observation tower at the Granada Science Park, Granada, Spain. This tower is 50 metres high with 176 stairs. It offers views of the city of Granada and houses a display of exhibitions

Biological collection. Collection of biological specimens arranged in a circular pattern. Clockwise from upper right are: seeds from tropical legume plants, euphorbia flowers, jewel beetles

Leonardo da Vinci birthplace and museum. This is the farmhouse in Anchiano, a village near Vinci, Italy, where it is thought Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was born

Child doing homework
MODEL RELEASED. Homework. Young boy writing his homework

Butterfly collection. Display of various British butterflies (order Lepidoptera) mounted and labelled on card. There are an estimated 180, 000 species of Lepidoptera butterflies worldwide

Globe in a school classroom

Eden Project. Visitors outside the humid tropics biome (dome) at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. The Eden Project is a horticultural garden centred on two large greenhouses (biomes)

Colourscape interior. Colourscape is an exhibit consisting of around 100 walk-in inflatable sculptures or chambers. Each chamber is lit in different colour combinations

Food growing demonstration in school
MODEL RELEASED. Food growing talk in school. Farmer giving a talk in a classroom. He is telling the children about the different types of fruits and vegetables and how they grow

Beetle collection. Display of various weevil beetles (order Coleoptera) mounted and pinned on card. It is etimated that there are between 5 and 8 million species of beetle worldwide

ECO Centre, Newport, Wales, UK. The ECO Centre is a public education centre designed to promote environmental issues connected with energy use

Fern frond morphology
MODEL RELEASED. Fern frond morphology. Person studying a fern frond with a magnifying glass

Botanical collection. Books containing dried plant specimens. Photographed at Universita degli Studi, Facolta di Agraria di Portici, Naples, Italy

Museum exhibit of Charaxes sp. butterflies
Charaxes sp. butterfly exhibit. View of several butterflies of the genus Charaxes mounted as part of a museum exhibit. Photographed at the Milan Natural History Museum, Italy

Preserved hazel specimens. Dried twigs and leaves from a hazel tree (Corylus sp.) next to a jar of hazelnuts. Photographed at Universita degli Studi, Facolta di Agraria di Portici, Naples, Italy

Museum exhibit of Morphidae family butterflies

Museum exhibit of Pieridae family butterflies

Scallop shell (family Pectinidae). Photographed at Universita degli Studi, Facolta di Agraria di Portici, Naples, Italy

Soviet children and model rocket, 1964
Soviet children launching a model rocket in 1964. This was the era when the Soviet Union and the USA were engaged in the Space Race, vying to outdo each other with their achievements in space

Girl standing beneath a lightbulb
MODEL RELEASED. Girl standing beneath a lightbulb

European mole skeleton (Talpa europaea) on display. Photographed at Universita degli Studi, Facolta di Agraria di Portici, Naples, Italy

Conceptual image symbolising scientific fraud

Biology lesson: gloved hand dissects a mouse
Mouse dissection. Biology lesson in which a gloved hand uses a pair of forceps to dissect a white laboratory mouse Mus musculus

Girl touching a plasma globe
MODEL RELEASED. Girl touching a plasma globe. She is nine years old. A plasma globe is a glass sphere filled with a gas at low pressure. In the centre is a metal ball charged with electricity

Mounted mosquito (family Culicidae). Photographed at Universita degli Studi, Facolta di Agraria di Portici, Naples, Italy

Biology lesson: gloved hands dissecting a mouse
Mouse dissection. Biology lesson in which gloved hands use intruments to dissect a white laboratory mouse Mus musculus

Girl holding a lightbulb
MODEL RELEASED. Girl holding a lightbulb, composite image

Mounted butterfly (Agrias amydon). Photographed at Universita degli Studi, Facolta di Agraria di Portici, Naples, Italy

Butterfly preparation. Scientist preparing a dead apollo butterfly (Parnassius tianshanicus) for mounting. Photographed at Universita degli Studi, Facolta di Agraria di Portici, Naples, Italy

School science teacher
MODEL RELEASED. School science teacher

Science research, conceptual image. Periodic table seen behind the eyepieces of a bifocal light microscope

Boy with pens and exercise book
MODEL RELEASED. Boy with pens and exercise book. He is six years old

University education. Conceptual image of a mortarboard on a pile of books, this may represent university education

Boy counting on his fingers
MODEL RELEASED. Boy counting on his fingers to complete his maths homework. He is six years old

Boy holding an earthworm
MODEL RELEASED. Boy holding an earthworm in his hand. Earthworms are annelid worms found in the soil. They play an important role in aerating the soil and recycling soil nutrients

Cup-and-string telephone
MODEL RELEASED. Cup-and-string telephone being used by a boy and a girl in a wood in autumn. The girl (in background) is speaking into one of the cups

Father and son reading a map
MODEL RELEASED. Father and son reading a map. The father is pointing to a location on the map

Father and son reading a compass
MODEL RELEASED. Reading a compass. Boy reading a compass being held in his fathers hand. A compass contains a magnetized metal strip

Boy pretending to eat an earthworm
MODEL RELEASED. Boy pretending to eat a worm. This is an earthworm, an annelid worm found in the soil. Earthworms play an important role in aerating the soil and recycling soil nutrients

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