- Hydraulic Press
- Yale 1910
- Parts of a motorbike (2)
- 1910 Curtis
- Parts of a motorbike
- Sidecar
- 1910 New Engines
- Earliest form of Hand Gun
- LA Motordrome
- Chinese Field piece Peiho 1860
- Catapulta.
- Early part of 15th Century
- Ancient Screw piece
- Machine for throwing stones
- General Information - M102 Howitzer
- Bombard and Carriage
- Ladies Hunting hat
Orcagna, Campo Santa, Pisa. - Machine for throwing darts
- Machine for throwing stones 3
- Boat Headdress
"Heads" usually lasted a matter of three weeks, when—'twould be dangerous, madam, to delay longer the opening of your head. We get a glimpse of the possible state of a lady's head at the expiration of that time from the many recipes and advertisements for the destruction of insects in the magazines of the period, which reminds us of Julian, who likened his beard to a "forest grown populous with troublesome little animals." - Crossbow
- Mode of Mounting (2)
- Long Serpentine of Wrought Iron
- Onager (slung)
- Detail of Balista springs
- Method of obtaining elevation
- Balista
- Machine for throwing stones 2
- Balista
- Mons Meg
- Mode of mounting
- Giorgio Martini,
- Crossbow 2
- Musketeer
- Pierrier or Paterera
- Quarrels
- Trepied
- Onager (Unslung)
- Small chambered Cannon
- Hand or Arrow Rocket
- Egyptian wig
Egyptian Wig - Hunting Hat
Orcagna, Campo Santa, Pisa. - Italian Hat
From Fra Angelico, Florence - Fool's Cap
Worn by the court fool of an Elector of Mayence (seventeenth century). South Kensington Museum. - Horn Headdress
The horn-shaped head-dress appears in no pictorial documents or monuments older than the reign of Henry IV. In a volume entitled "Jougleurs et Trouvères," by M. Jubinal, is a satire on horned head-dresses, under the title of "Des Cornetes," from a MS. in the Bibliothèque Royale at Paris, of the beginning of the fourteenth century. In this poem it appears that the Bishop of Paris had preached a sermon directed against extravagance in women's dress, their horns and the bareness of their necks. "If we do not get out of the way of the women we shall be killed; for they carry horns with which to kill men." - Comb
Comb, Italian (14th Century) - Nœud Gordien
How to tie the cravat. A. The Cravat folded. B. The Cravat à la Byron. S. The Cravat Sentimentale. "The Cravat Sentimentale." - Mens Italian Hat
From Fra Angelico, Florence. - Assyrian Bas-relief
Layard's "Nineveh." Beards were curled and probably dyed and powdered, the powder, however, being gold. As a matter of fact, gold was employed in various ways as an enrichment to the hair. - Breech loading Gingal (Chamber in)
- Cart of War
- Hooped Cannon in wooden bed
- Heart-shaped headdress
There was also the "balloon" or turban. This, like the heart-shaped head-dress, commenced with a flat pad, like a cake, which in its earlier stage was invariably richly ornamented, offering no particular variety in its form; when it became round, it developed a second roll around the forehead, with bands at intervals, which formed its constructive elements. - A Slinger
- A Cross bow man and Slinger
- Bow unstrung
The Scythian bow unstrung. - Bacchus
Bacchus was the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus. - A painted face
By the reign of James I. this ridiculous fashion had become common. All sorts of curious devices were made use of—spots, stars, crescents, and in one woodcut a coach and coachman with two horses and postilions appear upon the lady's forehead. The fashion continued for a long period; in fact, during the greater part of the Georgian era, when it had degenerated into mere spots or small patches. At the close of the eighteenth century it had entirely disappeared. - 15th Century headdress
From Viollet le Duc (Fifteenth Century). - Onager
Of machines formed on the sling principle, that called Onager may be regarded as typical of all the rest. Its force entirely depended upon the torsion of a short thick rope, acting upon a lever which described an arc of a vertical circle. The lever had attached to its free extremity a sling, or sometimes it merely terminated in a spoon-shaped cavity. When bent back, it was secured by a catch or trigger, and charged with a stone. On starting the catch by a blow with a mallet, the lever described its arc of a circle with great velocity, and projected the stone to a considerable distance.