EditorialLife Buoy, Rescue device against a sloping wall. The device consists of a set of floats connected by a crossbar with a vertical round pole in the middle. It is held against the wall with two guide bars through the crossbar and is secured with a chain, ...
EditorialPsychrometer, Humidity meter of the psychrometer type, with two thermometers in a standard, incomplete. The scale of both thermometers ranges from -12 ? to 44 ? Celsius. One thermometer has a sock around the mercury ball that is made moist. From the di...
EditorialFrancesco Novelli, Italian, 1764-1836, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1729-1804, after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682-1754, (Untitled, Putto on a Cloud), 18th century, black chalk with stumping or use of moisture on off-white laid paper, ...
EditorialFrancesco Novelli, Italian, 1764-1836, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1729-1804, after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682-1754, (Untitled, Head and Shoulder of a Child), 18th century, black chalk with stumping or use of moisture on off-white ...
EditorialFrancesco Novelli, Italian, 1764-1836, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1729-1804, after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682-1754, (Untitled, Flying Putto), 18th century, black chalk with stumping or use of moisture on off-white laid paper, Shee...
EditorialFrancesco Novelli, Italian, 1764-1836, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1729-1804, after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian, 1682-1754, (Untitled, Reclining Nude Child), 18th century, black chalk with stumping or use of moisture on off-white laid pap...
EditorialModel of a Life Buoy, Model of a rescue device against a sloping wall. The device consists of a set of floats connected by a crossbar with a vertical round pole in the middle. It is held against the wall with two guide rods through the transverse plane...
EditorialBalinese kris with scabbard, Balinese kris with a corrugated blade (dapur luk) and beautiful pamor. The criss-cross grip is made of silver and inlaid with semi-precious stones and cut glass. The figure on the handle probably represents the god Bayu. He...
EditorialHydrometer, Moisture Weigher for determining the specific gravity of liquids, consisting of a float in a glass with sawdust and cotton. The float consists of a glass body weighted with a mercury ball at the bottom, which is sealed with lacquer, in the ...
EditorialHydrometer Float in a Case, Float of a moisture scale for determining the specific gravity of liquids, in a leather case filled with flax and sawdust, damaged. The float consists of a glass body weighted with a mercury ball at the bottom, which is seal...
EditorialTypes of hygrometers, 18th century, to measure moisture content by Anderson 8, Dr. Robert Hooke 9,10, Dr. Hale 11, James Ferguson 12,13, and Bradford's hydrostatical instrument for weighing coin and checking weight and purity 1-3. Copperplate engraving...
EditorialTypes of hygrometers, 18th century, to measure moisture content. Jean-Andre De Luc's whalebone hygrometer, and others by Horace-Benedict de Saussure, Benjamin Meggot Forster, Henry Kater and the Hungarian Machine. Copperplate engraving by Sidney Hall f...
EditorialA man and a giant from The Valiant Tailor. Grimm's Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London : William Heinemann, [1925]. 'Pulling the piece of soft cheese out of his pocket, he squeezed it till the moisture ran out.'. Source: 12410.r.7. facin...
EditorialArchitectural fragment, or fragment from a sarcophagus: the God Shu and his companion, the Goddess Tefnut, personifying moisture, under their aspect of Onuris and Mehyt. Limestone, H: 16 cm E 22750.
EditorialA Shipwreck in a Storm, 1782, Pastel on gessoed canvas, 24 3/4 x 36 in. (62.9 x 91.4 cm), Pastels & Oil Sketches on Paper, Jean Pillement (French, Lyons 1728?1808 Lyons), This pastel, large in scale for Pillement, persuasively suggests the dark, threat...
Editorial?? ?? ????? ??, Towing a Boat in a Rainstorm, Song dynasty (960?1279), late 12th century, China, Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk, Image: 9 5/8 ? 10 1/4 in. (24.4 ? 26 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist Chinese, late 12th century, I...
EditorialTypes of hygrometers, 18th century, to measure moisture content by Anderson 8, Dr. Robert Hooke 9,10, Dr. Hale 11, James Ferguson 12,13, and Bradford's hydrostatical instrument for weighing coin and checking weight and purity 1-3. Copperplate engraving...
EditorialTypes of hygrometers, 18th century, to measure moisture content. Jean-Andre De Luc's whalebone hygrometer, and others by Horace-Benedict de Saussure, Benjamin Meggot Forster, Henry Kater and the Hungarian Machine. Copperplate engraving by Sidney Hall f...
EditorialArchitectural fragment, or fragment from a sarcophagus: the God Shu and his companion, the Goddess Tefnut, personifying moisture, under their aspect of Onuris and Mehyt. Limestone, H: 16 cm E 22750.