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- Hero's Engines
One of the early influences of the art of printing was to bring to the notice of some restless minds the writings of Hero and Archimedes. In Hero's Pneumatics, published more than 120 years before Christ, he gives such a clear account of an invention of his own, in which the expansive force of steam was used to give and maintain motion, as to establish thoroughly his right to the basic invention of the steam engine. He described three apparatus that he devised. In one, the currents of air and aqueous vapor rising through a tube from a hollow sphere, containing water, under which a fire is burning, support a ball placed immediately above the tube, and make it seem to dance. In another apparatus, a hollow sphere into which steam has arisen from what we now call a boiler, is supported on a horizontal or vertical axis, and provided with tubes that protrude from the sphere, and are bent at right angles to the radius and also to the pivot. The inner ends of these tubes lie within the sphere, so that the steam passes from the sphere through the tubes. As soon as this happens, the sphere takes up a rapid rotation, that continue so long as the steam continues to escape from the nozzles of the tubes, which point rearwardly. A third apparatus was merely an elaboration of the second, in that the sphere was connected with an altar which supported a large drum on which were figures representing human beings. The fire being lighted, the sphere would soon begin to revolve, and with it the drum; and the figures on it would seem to dance around, above the altar. The invention was probably to impress the people with the idea that the priests were exerting supernatural power. - Mrs. William Clark
- James, Duke of York
- Hero's Altar Engine
A third apparatus [from Hero] was merely an elaboration of the second, in that the sphere was connected with an altar which supported a large drum on which were figures representing human beings. The fire being lighted, the sphere would soon begin to revolve, and with it the drum; and the figures on it would seem to dance around, above the altar. The invention was probably to impress the people with the idea that the priests were exerting supernatural power. - Mayor Rip Van Dam
- Ninon de l'Enclos
- An Embroidered Jerkin
- City Flat-cap worn by 'Bilious' Bale
- Lady Anne Clifford
- William, Prince of Orange
- Robert Devereux
- Campaign, Ramillies, Bob, and Pigtail Wigs
- The English Antick
- A Puritan Dame
- The right Honourable Ferdinand--Lord Fairfax
- Mr. Alderman Abell and Richard Kilvert, the two maine Projectors for Wine, 1641
- Figures from Funeral Procession of the Duke of Albemarle, 1670
- Herbert Westphaling, Bishop of Hereford
- Cromwell dissolving Parliament
- Sir Thomas Orchard, Knight
- John Lilburne
- Bell's Telephone in March, 1876
- A Woman's Doublet. Mrs. Anne Turner
- Curved Stereotype Plate
- Heads of Mammiferous Animals
18. Manis. 25. Beaver. 19. Armadillo. 26. Hare. 20. Elephant. 27. Musk. 21. Spaniel. 28. Rein-deer. 22. Greyhound. 29. Ox. 23. Mastiff. 30. Horse. 24. Fox. - Heads of Quadrupeds
1. Rhinoceros. 10. Fallow deer. 2. Seal. 11. Chamois. 3. Cat. 12. Antelope. 4. Sable. 13. Goat. 5. Bear. 14. Sheep. 6. Badger. 15. Bison. 7. Camel. 16. Hog. 8. Elk. 17. Outline of the head of the Great Whale. 9. Stag, or red deer. - Howe's Improved Sewing Machine
- Lock Stitch (above) and Chain Stitch (below)
- Stock Indicator or 'Ticker'
- Dom Pedro II
- Alexander Graham Bell in 1900
- Cheapside in London
- Kitchen in which Goodyear made his Experiments
- Wellesley College in 1886
- Daniel Webster
- Jonathan and his Uncle William in the One-horse Chaise
- Sextuple Perfecting Press
- Elias Howe
- Birthplace of Charles Goodyear
- Edison's First Phonograph
- McCormick's Reaping Machine
- The Old Way of Reaping
- The Earliest Printers at Work
- Charles Goodyear
- A Monk Copying Manuscript Books
- Edison in his Library
- Faneuil Hall, Boston, Adjoining Quincy Market
- Franklin's Printing Press
- Natives Drying Rubber
- Howe's First Sewing Machine
- Silhouettes of Grandfather and Grandmother
- The First Type of McCormick Reaper
- Dr. William Slater. Cathedral Beard
- Portuguese Voyages and Possessions
The first great navigational feat that followed the invention of the compass was that performed by the Portuguese, Bartholomew Dias, who conceived the idea of reaching India by going around Africa, and sailed down the west coast of Africa as far as its southern end, later called the Cape of Good Hope. It was a tremendous undertaking, and it had tremendous results; for it demonstrated the possibilities of great ocean voyages, proved that the road to India was very long, and led to the expedition of Columbus, six years later. It was also a great invention, both in brilliancy of conception and excellence of execution, although Dias did not reach India. The second great navigational feat was performed by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Before that time it was conceded by most men of learning and reflection that the earth was spherical; and it was realized that, if it was spherical, it might be possible by sailing to the westward to reach India, the goal of all commercial expeditions in that day. Columbus is not to be credited with the first conception of that possibility. - Tapping a Rubber Tree
- Carvings
Carvings in Ivory (1 and 3–7) and in Stone of Cavern Walls (2), made by the Hunters of the Middle Stone Age