The reason mad scientists are pictured in film in labs with interconnected beakers and machinery that does incomprehensible things is because that's the way labs looked at one time. io9 has a collection of pictures of the laboratories where huge scientific and engineering breakthroughs occurred, from Edison (top) and Tesla (bottom) to the development of cellophane and computers. Link -via Nag on the Lake
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