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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to scientific experiments
2Charles Brook: Automatic registration of instruments
3Photographs that include data
Photographers
4Charles Piazzi Smyth: Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment (1857)
5Dr Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne and Adrien Tournachon: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions (1876)
6Jules Bernard Luys: Les Emotions chez les sujets en état d'hypnotisme (1887)
7Etienne Jules Marey: Physiological Station at Paris
8Eadweard Muybridge: Experimental establishments
9Berenice Abbott: Science
10Harold E. Edgerton: Night experiments at Stonehenge
Experiments
11Instantaneous photography - The exploding mule (6 June 1881)
12War: Atomic explosions: Destruction of test house (17 March 1953)
Test strips
13Photographic test strips

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