EditorialAn Endpoint Cylinder and Dictabelt Machine, which can retrieve information from broken cylinder shards that are incapable of being traditionally played, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York on Dec. 19, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialThe diesel motor. Since the 1930s most Norwegian ships have been powered by diesel engines. Model Fiat diesel engine with two cylinders. Norwegian Maritime Museum. Oslo. Norway.
EditorialRoman siege engines: shelter for sappers digging a tunnel, Vineae 1, semi-circular shelter Pluteus 2, shelter Testudo with battering ram Aries 3, shelter on rolling cylinders Musculus 4, siege tower or the Taker of Cities, Helepolis 5, five-storey towe...
EditorialChariot fragments, crossed cylinders, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, average: 2 ? 1 13/16 in. (5.1 ? 4.6 cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialNick Hakim performs with Roy Nathanson, a saxophonist and poet two generations his senior, in Brooklyn on Oct. 22, 2021. (Nate Palmer/The New York Times)
EditorialThe praying cylinders of Thibet. Buddhist prayer-wheels are rotating cylinders of varying size containing pieces of paper with prayers ('mantras') written or printed on them. The cylinders revolve clockwise, the direction of the sun's movement around t...
EditorialTwo-cylinder steam engine with high pressure and low pressure cylinders, often called a compound engine. Norwegian Maritime Museum. Oslo. Norway.
EditorialNecklace with amulet, Silver alloy, turquoise, carnelian beads, fiber, Amulet: metal, probably silver alloy. Box 5.5 cm (2 1/8 in.) square, with cover having filigree and turquoise ornamentation including four triangular pieces at base, applied at each...
EditorialPlate XXVI from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, Julio Paschale, Woodcut on paper, Machine for grinding, probably grain. Above, two funnel pins pour grain into covered cylinders, coming out of them into another box, center. Grinding done in cylin...
EditorialWatch chain and stud, Human hair, gold, wood, metal, (a) Man's watch chain; cylinders of strands of hair set in gold alternating with globes of hair within gold cages; ornaments in the form of one cross, three anchors, one heart shape and one shoe. (b)...
EditorialThe cylinders were delayed when a factory manager died of the virus and the factory workers quarantined. (Walker Pickering/The New York Times)