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Daedalus and Icarus
The flight of Etana
Besnier and his wings
Leonardo da Vinci's Glider and Parachute Idea
Octave Chanute experimenting with his gliders on the Michigan sand dunes
The Aerodrome
Wright Brothers' Bicycle shop
Wright Brotherrs wind tunnel
Wright Brothers' Wind tunnel
The Four forces of flight
The Wright Brothers experimental glider
Wright Brothers first powered airplane
Blundell’s Impellor
Drawing Blood for Transfusion
Kimpton-Brown Tube
Mr. Higginson’s Transfusion Instrument
The water tank
An observation train
The Train Ferry
The Stage coach
The tunnels
Field Artillery
Standard American upright action
Upright action showing lost-motion device
Grand pianoforte action with metallic action and damper frames
Standard modern American grand action
Double repetition action of Sebastian Erard as used by S. & P. Erard, Paris
The Erard grand action modified by Herz
Action by Andreas and Nanette (Stein), Streicher Viennese escapement (1794)
English direct lever grand action, developed by Broadwood from Backers (1884)
Cristofori’s action in its final form
Iron plate for upright pianoforte with Agraffes (Mehlin patents)
Arrangement of iron plate, braces and scale of parlor size grand pianoforte
Iron plate for upright pianoforte fitted with Capo D’astro bar
Sketch of iron plate for concert grand
Back view of upright pianoforte
Jonas Chickering’s full solid cast grand metal plate
Modern method og grand pianoforte case construction
'Great Republic'
Horse-boat at Empy’s Ferry, Osnabruck, Ontario
Miller’s twin boat on Loch Dalswinton, 1788
Symington’s ‘Charlotte Dundas,’ 1802
Bell’s ‘Comet,’ off Dumbarton on the Clyde, 1812
“Columba,” famous Clyde river steamer, 1875
'Wilhelm Kaiser' On The Rhine, 1886
Fulton’s ‘Clermont’ on The Hudson, 1807
Mississippi steamboat ‘J. M. White,’ 1878
36-inch searchlight and controller
5 inch R.F. gun and breech mechanism
An assembled mine
Block swings free to right of gun
Breech in normal position—closed
Frankford arsenal 21-second combination fuse
Frankford arsenal centrifugal fuses
36-inch searchlight and controller
Frankford arsenal time percussion or combination fuse - Model 1900
boat-telephone
rotating crank-catch turned 90°
the block released
Model of Roman Catapult