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The Guardian has an article on the recent release of CERN Photo Archives, and how they (CERN) would like help in figuring out what some of them actually are.
The Geneva-based laboratory for particle physics has released a vast archive of photographs dating back to the mid-1950s. The problem is that many of them have no captions — so scientists at Cern [sic] are asking the public for help
This refers to the CERN Mystery Photo archive update from a couple of weeks ago:
Some 120,000 black and white images from the period 1955-1985 are currently being digitised, with files being uploaded in batches of several hundred per week. They are then automatically sorted into albums based on the existing information.
In most cases, at least some descriptions exist, allowing us to identify the pictures.
However, many albums are still in need of titles, the names of the people in the photos, descriptions of equipment, etc., and we believe that much of this information could be crowd-sourced from the CERN community.
Also covered at Gizmodo and Petapixel. Originally spotted on Scientific American's Physics Week Review.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 02 2014, @06:31PM
It wouldn't let me post anything, not authorized or some crap. This photo https://cds.cern.ch/record/1764794 [cds.cern.ch] I've seen somewhere. I think it was some sort of antenna with a sensor or phased antenna array of some sort.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 02 2014, @06:42PM
Would've had to be in the GHz range (microwave) being so small and that close together.