- Raven
Raven - Civic Guard of Ghent (Brotherhood of St. Sebastian)
- The waterer of the Louis XV bridge
Few horses are driven there for the sole purpose of quenching their thirst, but the number of tired hocks that we hope to strengthen by staying in cold water is large enough for the trough to be sufficiently populated, and the hope of seeing some clumsy groom fall into the water keeps a certain number of fans of free shows on the parapets. - 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. - Return of the Races
From the weighing gate of Longchamps to the top of avenue du Bois, there is everywhere the same accumulation of cars, horses and bicycles. The lines follow one another without interruption, the noses of the horses touching the hood of the previous car and the drawbars threatening the rear of the footmen sitting behind the phaeton. Despite the impatience of some, the general resignation means that, in a relatively short time, this mass of spectators ends up flowing, which, first of all, seemed to be absolutely implausible. - 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. - Distributing Bread
Water-color by George Rochegrosse. - Fragment of roman aqueduct
Fragment of roman aqueduct - Remains of roman amphitheatre
Remains of roman amphitheatre, Rue Monge, discovered in 1869. - 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. - A Merovingian Queen
A Merovingian Queen - Armed Parisians meeting the king
Armed Parisians meeting the king, 1383 From an illuminated manuscript in the National Library, Paris. - Caroche
Caroche, covered with leather, studded with gold-headed nails, percherons; period, end of sixteenth century. - Assassination of Henry IV
Assassination of Henry IV, Rue de la Ferronnerie, may 14, 1610. - A
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Family Dinner - Splashing everyone
Splashing everyone - School
School - I'm Reading
Little girl "reading" a newspaper - Reading a book
Young boy with a bowtie Reading a book - Girl in a hat
Girl in a hat - Gardner five barrel machine gun on carriage
- Nordenfeldt Ten Barrel Rifle Calibre Machine Gun
- Nordenfeldt Five Barrel Rifle Calibre Machine Gun on field carriage
- Nordenfeldt Five Barrel Rifle Calibre Machine Gun
- Nordenfeldt Four Barrel 1 inch anti-torpedo boat machine gun
- 10 barrel Gatling Machine gun
- Elswick Improved six barrel Gatling Machine Gun
- Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon for shell fire
- Hotchkiss six pounder rapid firing non recoil Shell Gun
- Nordenfeldt Five Barrel Rifle Calibre Machine Gun mounted on ships top
- Nordenfeldt Quick-Firing Six Pounder Shell Gun
- Ten Barrel Gatling gun at high elevation
- Ten Barrel Gatling Gun at low angle of depression for searching Ravines
- Girl sleeping
Girl sleeping - 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
- Eight children
Eight children - Mother breaking up fight among her four children
Mother breaking up fight among her four children - Mother cuddling her little girl
Mother sitting in chair cuddling her little girl - Red headed girl in blue dress
Little red headed girl standing in blue dress in the garden. - Two little girls blowing bubbles in the garden
Two little girls blowing bubbles in the garden - You are it
Seven little children are all pointing at one little girl - 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 - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Principle of the helicopter, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
Principle of the helicopter, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci - Principle of the parachute, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
If Leonardo da Vinci's aerial flight experiments do not seem to have been carried out on a large scale, it is perhaps not the same with the parachute, the use of which is much safer. The description of Leonardo da Vinci was reproduced later, not without a notable improvement in the mode of representation of the apparatus, in a collection of machines, due to Fauste Veranzio and published in Venice in 1617.