'History' Category
The scientific tourist #105 — the Double Eagle V
This week’s touristy science image comes to you from the Albuquerque International Balloon Museum — it’s the Double Eagle V gondola…
Carnivalia — 12/16 – 12/22
The past week’s selection of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals awaits you…
The scientific tourist #104 — kiva tops
This week’s picture comes from Mesa Verde National Park in the southwestern corner of Colorado, USA — it’s the top of two kivas in the Spruce Tree House ruins…
Scientific tourist #103 — Explorer 10
For this week’s science-related travel image, we’re going back to the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamagordo. The picture is of a life-size model of the Explorer 10 spacecraft…
Scientific tourist #101 — Pippo, big & little
This week’s images come to you from the Paleontology section of Museo di Storia Naturale (Natural History Museum), Universitá degli Studi di Firenze in Florence, Italy…
Scientific tourist #100 — Strato-Lab
This week you get a pair of images from the Albuquerque Balloon Museum — they’re of the gondola of Strato-Lab IV, part of a series of manned stratospheric balloons launched by the U. S. Navy in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s…
Scientific tourist #99 — the D-21 drone
Today you get a bunch of photographs, of a single subject, taken at a variety of venues — and it’s all about the D-21 drone…
Scientific tourist #98 — Rue Cuvier
Georges Cuvier founded vertebrate paleontology, and all he got for his troubles was this lousy street sign…
Carnivalia — 10/28 – 11/03
The last week’s bumper crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals…
Scientific tourist #97 — Nike Ajax
This week’s image comes to you from the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamagordo, New Mexico — it’s a Nike Ajax anti-aircraft missile on its launcher…
