1.This is a photo of a baton falling, taken at a rate of 60 flashes per second, in 1953.
2.Here's a photo series of a splash happening in 1905.
3.A bullet going through a lemon in 1955, because why not.
4.This photo of the Orion Nebula was taken in 1875.
5.And this one was taken by an amateur astronomer in 1883 from his back garden in Ealing, London.
6.This solar eclipse happened in 1901.
7.Just an x-ray of an angelfish and surgeonfish, from 1896.
8.The long, tubular mouthpart that a hummingbird hawk moth uses to get nectar from flowers, taken in 1928.
9.A man performs a long jump from a standing start, 1887.
10.A man jumping over a hurdle in 1892.
11.A photograph from Henri Becquerel's experiments with beta rays in 1901.
12.Just some insect wings from 1840.
13.A lightning strike hits Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, in 1899.
14.This is what the moon looked like in 1851.
15.And in 1858 and 1859.
Revelations: Experiments in Photography runs at the Science Museum, London, from 20 March to 13 September 2015, then at the National Media Museum, Bradford, from 19 November 2015 to 7 February 2016.
