EditorialThe Edinburgh Festival's 2023 programme is revealed at 10.30am on Tuesday, 14 February, Summer Hall, EWdinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK - 13 Feb 2023
EditorialThe Knapp roller boat and its inventor. With the history of the invention. Photographic copy of an artist's impression of the Knapp roller boat, representing it 'as it appeared in Toronto Bay, October 27th, 1897, on a preliminary trial,' with an inset ...
EditorialThe Knapp roller boat and its inventor. With the history of the invention. Photographic copy of an artist's impression of the Knapp roller boat, representing it 'as it appeared in Toronto Bay, October 27th, 1897, on a preliminary trial,' with an inset ...
EditorialWoolthorpe Cemetery, where Newton used to sit in the years 1665 / 66 when the plague prevented him from attending classes in Cambridge. " In those days I was in the prime of my age for invention.. " Newton wrote late in life.
EditorialThe Invention of Oil Painting. Th?odoor Galle (Flemish, 1571-1633); after Joannes Stradanus (Flemish, 1523-1605). Date: 1586-1596. Dimensions: 203 ? 270 mm (image/sheet, trimmed within plate mark). Engraving, with plate tone, in black on cream laid pap...
EditorialInvention of the Stirrup, design for 'Staphae, sive stapedes,' pl. 9 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) print series, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Pen and ink, black chalk, brush and gray and brown wash on ...
EditorialInvention of the author to get the cavalry swimming., Swimming bags for horses so that the cavalry can cross a river, Pl. V, Tom., IV. P. 57, after p. 56, 1774, Polybius; Vincent Thuillier; Jean Charles de Folard: Histoire de Polybe. Tome 4; Amsterdam:...
EditorialChinese revolving wheel explosive. Explosive devices of all sorts had been used in China after the invention of gunpowder in the 10th century (or earlier). From a woodblock-print book containing illustrations of all aspects of warfare in China. Wubeizh...
EditorialA Palestinian woman Amna Salah prepares the clay ovens to earn livelihood, in the West bank city of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestinian Territory - 08 Sep 2022