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Antibiotic Resistance Tests
Antibiotic resistance tests: Bacteria are streaked on dishes with white disks, each impregnated with a different antibiotic. Clear rings, such as those on the left, show that bacteria have not grown, indicating that these...
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Penicillium Mold
Some penicillium mold on mandarin oranges, probably Penicillium digitatum.
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Professor Alexander Fleming
Synthetic production of penicillin by Professor Alexander Fleming, holder of the Chair of Bacteriology at London University, who first discovered the mould penicillin notatum, in his laboratory at St Mary's, Paddington...
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Ships on the Palestrina Mosaic
A close-up of the Nile Mosaic (c. 2nd century BCE), depicting Ptolemaic ships with soldiers onboard.
National Archaeological Museum of Palestrina.
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Police Boat on the Palestrina Mosaic
A close-up of the Nile Mosaic (c. 2nd century BCE), depicting a police boat in Ptolemaic Egypt.
National Archeological Museum of Palestrina.
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12-Wind Compass Rose
A drawing of a 12-wind compass rose as imagined by the Ptolemaic admiral Timosthenes (3rd century BCE).
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Statue of Søren Kierkegaard
Statue of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) in the Royal Library Gardens, Copenhagen.
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Kierkegaard by Gamborg
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), drawing by Knud Gamborg (1828-1900).
The Royal Library, National Collections Department, Prints and Photographs, Copenhagen.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), litograph by J. Borchert, after the drawing of N.C. Kierkegaard, c. 1840.
The Royal Library, National Collections Department, Prints and Photographs, Copenhagen.
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Firefighters in the London Blitz
A May 1941 photograph showing firefighters in Queen Victoria Street during the London Blitz. (Imperial War Museums)
