EditorialModel of a round-grenade ignition mechanism, Half-wooden sphere that covers the top of represents a grenade with an ignition mechanism attached to it, possibly a so-called Bourbon tube, but larger and coarser than known ignition mechanisms of this desi...
EditorialPhotograph - Engineering Products Pty Ltd, Inner Mechanisms of a Petrol Pump, circa 1930, One of 59 black & white photographs contained in a photographic album. Images depict petrol pumps manufactured by Engineering Products Pty. Ltd., EPEX. The photog...
EditorialModel of a Pump Windlass, Model of a roasting spindle on a floorboard. The octagonal drum, suspended between two cheeks that form the roasting spindle with two servants each, is also equipped with small drums outside the cheeks. The roasting spindle is...
EditorialDifferent types of timing, Illustration of various mechanisms of 17th century timekeeping, Iconism VII, p. 662, 1664, Athanasius Kircher, Kaspar Schott: P.Gasparis Schotti [...] technica curiosa sive mirabilia artis, libris XII [...]. Pars II. Liber no...
EditorialAzimuth Compass in Wooden Box, Azimuth Compass in a wooden box. The compass has a fixed level device. The eyepiece consists of a prismatic visor to read the rose, combined with a slit visor with a black and green black-out glass, the wire visor on the ...
EditorialAzimuth Compass with Tripod, Azimuth compass in a wooden box. The compass has a fixed level device. The eyepiece consists of a prismatic visor to read the rose, combined with a slit visor with a black and green black-out glass, the wire visor on the ot...
EditorialCaricature of Santiago Ram?n y Cajal (Petilla de Arag?n (Navarra), 1852-Madrid, 1934). Histologist and Spanish pathologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 for discovering the mechanisms that govern the morphology and the connective processes of nerve ...
EditorialArcher with two-pulley winch crossbow, and details of the pulley mechanisms of the crossbow, late 15th century. Winding mechanism B/C, roller D/E, pulley system F, and foot stirrup G/H. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Ap...
EditorialSingle microscope mechanisms and parts. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820.
EditorialParts and mechanisms of repeating and alarm watches. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by B. L. Vulliamy, clock and watch maker to the King and Prince Regent, from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences a...
EditorialCompound microscope mechanisms and parts including Adams' and Martin's. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme...
EditorialCaricature of Santiago Ram?n y Cajal (Petilla de Arag?n (Navarra), 1852-Madrid, 1934). Histologist and Spanish pathologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 for discovering the mechanisms that govern the morphology and the connective processes of nerve ...