EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Researchers reveal what offices will look like in 2050 ? including holographic calls, sensor-controlled desks and AI personal assistants
EditorialSaber by Cornelis Tromp, Saber by Cornelis Tromp. Turkish. Copper driven hilt, 3 eagle heads and a medusa head. The handle of heavily braided silver thread (Persian damask, type shamshir). The sting has been lengthened to adjust blade to hilt. No brand...
EditorialThe declensions of an instrument, and to adjust the inclinations of the planes are to be explained, Instrument of Gnomonics, after p. 30, 1648, Emanuele Maignan: Perspectiva horaria sive de horographia gnomonica tum theoretica, tum practica libri quatu...
EditorialCinderella on the ball Tales of Mother Goose (series title), A young man kneels in front of Cinderella with a ladies shoe in his hand. In turn, she holds up her foot to adjust the shoe. In the background a view of a ballroom with dancing people. This p...
EditorialModel of a chain messenger Model of a Chain Messenger, Model representing the center section of a deck from prow to capstan with twelve wind trees and eight catches in the foot. The model demonstrates a chain cable ring, for which the capstan is equipp...
EditorialNavigation Map adjuster of brass with a long and short leg, Map adjuster with two legs, each at the top semi-circular and split and hinged in such a way that the upper part of the legs forms a ring in the closed upper edge. The short leg is pierced and...
EditorialSpanish: Spit, Spanish, 18th?19th century, Iron, This wrought iron object was created by a Spanish craftsperson in the 18th or 19th century. It takes the shape of a horse and rider perched above fleur-de-lis scroll work. A spit for roasting meat would ...
EditorialGreek Art. Parthenon. 5th century B.C. A boy helps a rider to adjust the length of his tunic while another horseman waits in readiness. North frieze XLVII. It comes from the Acropolis in Athens. British Museum. London. England. UK.
Editorial18th century surgeon Jean Louis Petit's screw tourniquet for compressing blood vessels: tourniquet device 1, double band to adjust the tourniquet 2, compress in chamois leather 3 and ball bearing 4. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Did...
EditorialPainted sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, 150-140 BCE, found at Poggio Cantarello, Tuscany, Italy. Her name is inscribed on the chest. She is depicted reclining upon a mattress and pillow, holding an open-lidded mirror in her left hand and raisi...
EditorialGreek Art. Parthenon. 5th century B.C. A boy helps a rider to adjust the length of his tunic while another horseman waits in readiness. North frieze XLVII. It comes from the Acropolis in Athens. British Museum. London. England. UK.
EditorialBassoon in C, ca. 1813?25, Paris, France, French, Maple, brass, Height: 50 3/8 in. (127.9 cm), Aerophone-Reed Vibrated-double reed, Jean-Jacques Baumann (French, Paris 1772?1845 Paris), Keys by C.H. Felix (French, Paris flourished 1825?1830), The instr...
Editorial18th century surgeon Jean Louis Petit's screw tourniquet for compressing blood vessels: tourniquet device 1, double band to adjust the tourniquet 2, compress in chamois leather 3 and ball bearing 4. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Did...
EditorialGreek Art. Parthenon. 5th century B.C. A boy helps a rider to adjust the length of his tunic while another horseman waits in readiness. North frieze XLVII. It comes from the Acropolis in Athens. British Museum. London. England. UK.
EditorialPainted sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, 150-140 BCE, found at Poggio Cantarello, Tuscany, Italy. Her name is inscribed on the chest. She is depicted reclining upon a mattress and pillow, holding an open-lidded mirror in her left hand and raisi...