- Two fairies
- Christmas Time
- Girl surrounded by birds
- The Aerodrome
Langley built his plane without much difficulty, but could not find anyone to make an engine large enough for it. Finally, Charles Manley, an expert engineer, asked for permission to build the engine. Manley’s engine was a five-cylinder, radial gasoline engine that developed 51 horsepower and was far ahead of its time. It was years before American radial engines were used successfully in airplanes. Professor Langley called his machine the Aerodrome, and by October, 1903, the plane was ready for its test flight, with Manley to guide it. The Aerodrome was to be launched from a catapulting platform built on the roof of a houseboat. The houseboat was anchored on the Potomac River near Washington. As it left the platform the machine crashed into the river, and the trial was a dismal failure. The newspapers and the public ridiculed Langley, but he and Manley, who was unhurt in the crash, repaired the machine for another trial. This test took place on December 8, 1903, and again the Aerodrome crashed into the river. Manley once more escaped injury, but Langley and the government were abused by the public for wasting money. Langley was out of money himself, the government could not furnish funds for further trials, so the experiments were ended. The professor, discouraged and brokenhearted, gave up. - Opostomias micripnus
In Opostomias micripnus, a dark black fish living at a depth of over 2,000 fathoms, there are two rows of ocellar organs running down the sides of the body from the head to the tail. In the living animal they are said to shine with a reddish lustre. In addition to these, the conspicuous organs, there are `groups` of fifty, a hundred, or even more very much smaller organs situated on the sides and back of the fish, each of which is lenticular in shape and consists of a number of short polygonal tubes containing a granular substance with rounded bases resting on the subjacent tissue. The whole organ is covered 79by a simple continuation of the cuticle of the body-wall. The granular substance contained in the tubes is most probably the seat of luminosity. - Callowhill St. House where B. F. Pitezel’s Body was Found
Callowhill St. House where B. F. Pitezel’s Body was Found - Benjamin F. Pitizel
Benjamin F. Pitizel - Mrs Pitezel
Mrs Pitezel - Holmes burning Pitezel’s clothing in Callowhill Street house
Holmes burning Pitezel’s clothing in Callowhill Street house - Gladiolus psittacinus
Gladiolus psittacinus - Nellie Pitezel
Nellie Pitezel - Adenium multiflorum
Adenium multiflorum - The earth with a segment removed to show supposed internal zones
Crust (6-30 miles) Mantle (1800 miles) Outer core (1400 miles) Inner core (750 miles) The core is the innermost zone of the earth. It is mainly iron with some nickel and cobalt. The inner core probably is solid, but the outer core may consist of the same elements in a molten form. The core is the most dense (heaviest) of the three zones. - Howard Pitezel
Howard Pitezel - Gardenia globosa
Gardenia globosa - Alice Pitezel
Alice Pitezel - Clivia miniata
Clivia miniata - Cyrtanthus obliquus
Cyrtanthus obliquus - Haemanthus natalensis
Haemanthus natalensis - Agapanthus Umbellatus
Agapanthus Umbellatus - Richardia angustiloba
Richardia angustiloba - Holmes’ “Castle” Chicago
Holmes’ “Castle” Chicago - Cyrtanthus rotundilobus
Cyrtanthus rotundilobus - Aloe pretoriensis
Aloe pretoriensis - Mimetes palustris
Mimetes palustris - Gerbera Jamesoni
Gerbera Jamesoni - Cyrtanthus sanguineus
Cyrtanthus sanguineus - Crassula falcata
Cyrtanthus Angustifolius - Ceropegia Rendallii
Ceropegia Rendallii - Sarcocaulon rigidum
Sarcocaulon rigidum - Nymphaea stellata
Nymphaea stellata - Clerodendron triphyllum
Clerodendron triphyllum - Freesia refracta
Freesia refracta - Aloe Pienaarii
Aloe Pienaarii - Streptocarpus Dunnii
Streptocarpus Dunnii - Richardia Rehmanni
Richardia Rehmanni - Ceropegia Meyeri
Ceropegia Meyeri - Colocasia odorata
Tender stove Section; will endure exposure only during summer in the warmest parts of the southern counties. - Aralia canescens
Deciduous fine-leaved Shrub; hardy everywhere. - Emeline Cigrand
Emeline Cigrand - Arctotis Decurrens
Arctotis Decurrens - Cyrtanthus McKenii
Cyrtanthus McKenii - Cyrtanthus Angustifolius
- Ethiopian Noble Lady
- Leucadendron Stokoei
Leucadendron Stokoei - Boy catching a ball
- Orothamnus Zeyheri
Orothamnus Zeyheri - Gladiolus Rehmanni
Gladiolus Rehmanni - Bambusa falcata (Arundinaria falcata)
A very ornamental species from Nepaul and the Himalayas, and at present the only kind of bamboo much planted with us. It grows from 7 ft. to 20 ft. high, and has woody, twisted, smooth stems of a yellowish-green or straw-colour, knotty, bearing on one side of each of the knots a bundle of small branches equally knotty and twisted. The whole plant has a pale yellowish hue, except in the young spikelets and sheaths, which are occasionally purplish. The leaves are of a fine delicate green, from 4 ins. to 6 ins. long, ribbon-like, linear-acute, sickle-shaped, in two rows, short-stalked, and sheathing. It is hardy over the greater part of England and Ireland, but only attains full development in the south and west. I have seen it attain great luxuriance in Devon, and nearly 20 ft. high near Cork, though in many districts it is stunted. It loves a deep, sandy, and rich soil, and plenty of moisture when growing fast. - The Four forces of flight
after testing more than 200 wing designs and plane surfaces in their wind tunnel, the Wright Brothers found out how to figure correctly the amount of curve, or camber, that was essential to weight-carrying wings. They discovered, too, that before man could be flown through the air, he must have his wings attached firmly to a body or platform which was firm and controllable. The Wrights in their earliest experiments had realized that to be practical their machine must be built not only to fly in a straight line, but also in order that it could be steered to the right or to the left. One day, Orville was twisting a cardboard box in his hand when Wilbur noticed it. Immediately he saw the solution to the problem of steering their airplane. The result was a design which changed the lift of either end of the wing by warping its surface. If one end of the wing was warped to give it more lift, the machine would lift on that side and fall off into a turn. Thus the problem of steering was solved by the Wrights - Senecio stapeliaeformis
Senecio stapeliaeformis - Bolusanthus speciosus
Bolusanthus speciosus - Stapelia Gettleffii
Stapelia Gettleffii - Later Costume of Ethiopian Nobles
- Nannie Williams
Nannie Williams - Aloe Globuligemma
Aloe Globuligemma - Protea abyssinica
Protea abyssinica - Leucadendron Stokoei
Leucadendron Stokoei - Double-crested Cormorant, Breeding Plumage
DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT Phalacrocorax auritus auritus (Lesson) Other Name.—Shag. Description.—Four toes all webbed together; bill long and strongly hooked at tip; tail stiff and moderately long; plumage thick and firm. 16Adults in breeding plumage: Glossy greenish black, save on back which is dark gray, each feather being margined with lighter gray; two filamentous tufts of black feathers on back of head; neck with thin sprinkling of silken white feathers during period of courtship; bill blackish, marked at base with dull yellow; sack under bill yellow; eyes bright green. Immature and adult in winter (the plumage usually seen in Pennsylvania): Without crests, and whole plumage brownish black, somewhat mottled beneath, and with light area on throat; eyes grayish green, not bright green. Length: About 30 inches. Range in Pennsylvania.—A migrant found principally along the larger water-ways from about March 20 to May 10 and from September 15 to November 15. It is occasionally seen in winter when the water is free of ice. - Pachypodium succulentum
Pachypodium succulentum