
LABORATORY SERIES. No.01. Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey. Abandoned two million square foot research and development facility designed by Eero Saarinen in 1962 for the Bell System. The sprawling 472-acre Bell Labs Holmdel Complex once housed more than 6,000 engineers and researchers. Photo: s o d a p o p / flickr.


LABORATORY SERIES. No.10. Iron Lung Ward at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center during the 1952 Polio epidemic. The Iron Lung was developed as a temporary respiratory aid for polio patients unable to breathe on their own. Subjects, primarily young children, were confined to the airtight chamber from the neck down. Acting as an artificial lung, the apparatus created a negative pressure environment around the subject’s torso allowing the patient’s lungs to expand and contract. Photo: Wikipedia.