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The images on this website and their original captions have been donated by Science Service and are presented to you as they appeared in period publications. The captions were written by Science Service journalists and have been transcribed exactly.

Additional text found elsewhere in the collection is also included where relevant.

Comments from visitors, historians and publications elsewhere, when applicable, are added to compliment the history of the relative photograph representation.

NOTICE: January 10, 2008
Science Service became the Society for Science & the Public

Although these images are protected by copyright, we encourage you to use them for academic and non-commercial pursuits.

The numbered subjects listed below represent the original organization Science Service developed.

A specific numbered subject you select may have one or more images.

This numbered subject area will be updated, when time permits, with more photographs and captions preserved in the Science Service Historical Image Collection. * updated 2008

1 Automobiles *
2 Automobile Safety
3 Batteries *
4 Brushes
5 Cables *
6 Cameras
7 Communications *
8 Computer Art
9 Dielectric Research *
10 Dynamics - Dynamos *
11 Edison *
12 Electric Appliance & Apparatus*
13 Electric Arcs*
14 Electric Cables*
15 Electric Circuits*
16 Electric Current Converters*
17 Electric Fans*
18 Electric Flood Lighting*
19 Electric Furnaces*
20 Electric Fuses
21 Electric Generators*
22 Electric Heating*
23 Electric Insulators & Insulating*
24 Electric Laboratories
25 Electric Lamps*
26 Electric Light
27 Electric Lighting
28 Electric Lightning
29 Electric Machinery
30 Electric Meters
31 Electric Motors
32 Electric Outlet
33 Electric Power
34 Electric Power Plants
35 Electric Power Transmission
36 Electric Signs
37 Electric Speech
38 Electric Switchgear
39 Electric Testing
40 Electric Transformers
41 Electric Wire
42 Electric Wiring
43 Electrical Engineering
44 Electricity*
45 Electro Static Amplification
46 Electro Luminescence
47 Electromagnets
48 Electron Micrograph
49 Electron Microscope
50 Electron Tubes
51 Electronic Devices
52 Electronics
53 Electrostatics
54 Faraday, Michael
55 Fiber Optics
56 Fire Alarms
57 Fluidics
58 Franklin, Benjamin
59 Fuel Cell
60 High Fidelity Series
61 Image Amplifier
62 Image Converter Tubes
63 Image Intensifiers
64 Induction (electricity)
65 Infrared
66 Infrared Lamps
67 Instrumentation
68 Integrated Circuits
69 Lasers
70 Light
71 Lighting
72 Lightning, Artificial
73 Lightning Conductors
74 Liquid Crystal
75 Liquid Drops
76 Loran
77 Loudspeakers
78 Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Generator
79 Magnetism
80 Magnets
81 Mechanical Speaker
82 Medical Electronics
83 Microelectronics
84 Microphone
85 Microwaves
86 Microwave Diodes
87 Miniaturization
88 & 89 Music Recording
90 Noise Control
91 & 92 Oscilloscope
93 Phonograph
94 Photoelectric Cell
95 Photoelectric Cells
96 Phototelegraphy
97 Picturephone
98 Piezoelectricity
99 Power Amplifiers
100 Power From Wind
101 Power Transmission
102 Proximity Fuse-Fuze-Fuzze
103 Radar
104 Radarscope
105 Radar Surveillance
106 Radio
107 Radio Antennae
108 Radio Beamcasting
109 Radio Beamcasting
110 Radio Navigation
111 Radio Propagation
112 Radio Propagation
113 Radio Receiver
114 Radio Transmission (facsimile)
115 Radio Transmitters
116 Radio Tubes (subminiature)
117 Radome
118 Recording Instruments
119 Recordings
120 Rectifiers
121 Reflectors
122 Searchlights
123 Semiconductors
124 Sonics
125 Speech
126 Space Batteries
127 Stratovision
128 Telegraph
129 Telemeter
130 Telephone
131 Telephone Cables
132 Teleran
134 Television
135 Television Transmission
136 Televox
137 Thermeonic Converters
138 Thermocouples
139 Thermoelectricity
140 Thin Film Technology
141 Transducers
142 Transistors
143 Transmitters
144 Tropospheric Scatter
145 Tungsten Lamps
146 Vacuum Tube
147 Voltmeter

* updated 2008