- 10 barrel Gatling Machine gun
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A Merovingian Queen - A Wedding ( La Madeleine )
The crowd is generally sympathetic to weddings. The hour at which they are accomplished generally coincides with that of the lunch of the milliners and other dressmakers of the district, which their lack of dowry maintains in the state of celibates without depriving them of the desire and the hope of going up in `rank`. They constitute the fund of spectators, and their special knowledge enables them to estimate with precision the probable resources of the new spouses and their entourage. - African Fat-Tailed Sheep
- Alfred d Orsay
Alfred d Orsay - Argali (Ovis Poli)
- Armed Parisians meeting the king
Armed Parisians meeting the king, 1383 From an illuminated manuscript in the National Library, Paris. - Assassination of Henry IV
Assassination of Henry IV, Rue de la Ferronnerie, may 14, 1610. - Bastard Gemsbok (Antilope leucophaea, Pallas
- Benjamin D’Israeli
Benjamin D’Israeli - Besnier's flying apparatus
Reproduction by heliogravure of the figure from the Journal des sçavans (1678). Extract from a letter written to Mr. Toynard on a Machine of a new invention to fly in the air. A, right front aisle. — B, left rear aisle. — C, left front aisle. — D, right rear aisle. — E, fissure of the left foot which lowers the D aisle, when the left hand lowers the Aisle C. — F, fissure of the right foot which lowers the D-pin when the left hand lowers the C-pin. - Bicyclists ( Carrefour d'Ermenonville )
While at the Potinière we admire the velocemen and velocewomen in possession of all the secrets of art, we only meet here the laggards studying under the eye of professionals. It is assured that the ordinarily gifted people are, after ten lessons, in a condition to direct themselves properly. But just as some students take a long time to do their law far beyond the statutory years, so we find certain temperaments refractory to equilibrium which persist in capsizing at every turn of the wheel beyond all expectations. - Bony skeleton of Hippopotamus
- Boy and Girl encouraging their bird to come back
Boy and Girl looking out the window encouraging their bird to come back after escaping from its cage - Boy reading to two girls
- Burdett, Hume and O'Connell
Burdett, Hume and O'Connell - Caroche
Caroche, covered with leather, studded with gold-headed nails, percherons; period, end of sixteenth century. - Charlemagne
Portrait of Charlemagne, whom the Song of Roland names the King with the Grizzly Beard.--Fac-simile of an Engraving of the End of the Sixteenth Century. Charlemagne was the first who recognised that social union, so admirable an example of which was furnished by Roman organization, and who was able, with the very elements of confusion and disorder to which he succeeded, to unite, direct, and consolidate diverging and opposite forces, to establish and regulate public administrations, to found and build towns, and to form and reconstruct almost a new world. We hear of him assigning to each his place, creating for all a common interest, making of a crowd of small and scattered peoples a great and powerful nation; in a word, rekindling the beacon of ancient civilisation. When he died, after a most active and glorious reign of forty-five years, he left an immense empire in the most perfect state of peace - Civic Guard of Ghent (Brotherhood of St. Sebastian)
- Cotswold
- Death of Sainte-Geneviève
Sainte-Geneviève, the patron saint of the Parisians, also perpetuated with her legend on the walls of the Panthéon, originally her church but now dedicated to the Grands Hommes of the nation, was born at Nanterre, near Paris, in 422, and guarded in the fields the flocks of her parents, Sévère and Gérontia. - Distributing Bread
Water-color by George Rochegrosse. - Dorset Ram
- Edward Lytton Bulwer
Edward Lytton Bulwer - Egyptian bronze representing a flying man
In the Hall of the Gods, in the Egyptian Museum, there is a small bronze plaque of great antiquity, where we see in relief a man flying the two extended wings. It is true that we agree to consider this piece as a symbolic composition rather than as the representation of an aircraft. - Eight children
Eight children - Electric flying machine depicted in Le Philosophe sans pretension (1775)
We reproduce as a curiosity this charming vignette, where we see the inventor Scintilla driving his machine. - Elswick Improved six barrel Gatling Machine Gun
- Esquimaux Dog
- Facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings on artificial wings
The examination of the original drawings of the great Italian artist is intersting. We reproduce by heliogravure a complete plate; it makes it possible to follow the thought which presided over its execution. We let Dr. Hureau de Villeneuve interpret it. We see in the second row on the right a small character quite similar to a demon or a genie, for he wears a flame on his head and, next to this flame, a Latin cross. His arms end with the fingers of a bat. The figure is not yet finished when Leonardo already recognizes its insufficiency and, guessing the little muscular action of the arms, thinks of using the force of the legs. So we see a little higher, in the same plank, a vigorous man placed on his stomach, his legs bent and about to launch a violent kick. The protruding muscles, traced by an anatomist's pencil, reveal the great painter in an unassuming drawing. - Family Dinner
Family Dinner - Fashions for 1836 and 1837
Fashions for 1836 and 1837 - Father Lana's aerial ship (1670)
Certainly Lana's project is impracticable: the learned Jesuit did not foresee that his empty copper balloons would be crushed by the external atmospheric pressure; but he nevertheless had a very clear idea and very remarkable for his time of the principle of aerial navigation by balloons lighter than the volume of air which they move. He ends his long chapter with some very curious considerations: I do not see any other difficulties that can be opposed to this idea, except one which seems to me more important than all the others, and that God will not allow this invention to be ever successfully applied in practice, in order to prevent the consequences which would result from it for the civil and political government of men. Indeed, who does not see that there is no State which would be insured against a stroke of surprise, because this ship would be heading in a straight line on one of its strongholds, and, landing there, could descend there soldiers. - Flock of sheep in Australia, under a large Eucalyptus
- Fragment of roman aqueduct
Fragment of roman aqueduct - Gardner five barrel machine gun on carriage
- Girl in a hat
Girl in a hat - Girl sleeping
Girl sleeping - Halicore Dugong
- Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau - Head of Indian Elephant
- Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon for shell fire
- Hotchkiss six pounder rapid firing non recoil Shell Gun
- I'm Reading
Little girl "reading" a newspaper - James Hogg
James Hogg - John Baldwin Buckstone
John Baldwin Buckstone - John Galt
- John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart - John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker - Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt - Little girl at the beach with many other children
Little girl standing in a puddle at the beach while lots of other children play in the background - Little girl looking in the mirror
Little girl looking in a full length mirror - Little girl on a swing
Little girl swinging on a swing attached to a tree - Little girl sitting and reading in the garden
Little girl sitting and reading in the garden - Lord Brougham
Lord Brougham - Lord Byron
Lord Byron - Lord Chesham's Shropshire
- Lord John Russell
Lord John Russell