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Joseph De Montgolfier. Portrait of Joseph de Montgolfier 1740-1810, French industrial, inventor of the montgolfiere style hot...
Joseph De Montgolfier. Portrait of Joseph de Montgolfier 1740-1810, French industrial, inventor of the montgolfiere style hot air ballon. Engraving after the portrait by Boissieu, in La Nature, 02/ 04/1887.





Clepsydra (water clock) indicating hours and chiming., From Utriusque cosmi...historia, by Robert Fludd (Oppenheim, 1617-1619...
Clepsydra (water clock) indicating hours and chiming., From Utriusque cosmi...historia, by Robert Fludd (Oppenheim, 1617-1619) Engraving





Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English chemist and physicist, From James Sheridan Muspratt's Chemistry (London, c1860)





Johannes Gutenberg, Inventor Of The Printing Press (1395-1468) 16th Century Artist Unknown Copperplate





Ventilation shaft on the roof of Casa Milà designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, also known as La Pedrera, the Quarry, at t...
Ventilation shaft on the roof of Casa Milà designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, also known as La Pedrera, the Quarry, at the Passeig de Gràcia, Eixample district, Barcelona, Spain, Europe





Detail of the facade of the modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art, by architects Peter Cook and Colin ...
Detail of the facade of the modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art, by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Graz, Styria, Austria, Europe





Robert Fulton Submarine American inventor and engineer (1765-1815): His submarine Nautilus . 1)Travelling on surface: 2)Subme...
Robert Fulton Submarine American inventor and engineer (1765-1815): His submarine Nautilus . 1)Travelling on surface: 2)Submerged. Fulton demonstrated the vessel on the Seine, May 1801. Boat powered manually. Engraving Paris 1901





France, Centre-Val de Loire, Indre et Loire, Amboise, Clos-Lucé castle, garden, exhibition of inventions





Artist's impression of execution by electric chair, prepared after experiments on the practicability of electrocution as meth...
Artist's impression of execution by electric chair, prepared after experiments on the practicability of electrocution as method of execution. From Scientific American New York, 30 June 1888. Westinghouse AC system.





Ventilating a mine. Various forms of fan which could be mounted on an axle inside a ventilating drum. A) Thin boards forming ...
Ventilating a mine. Various forms of fan which could be mounted on an axle inside a ventilating drum. A) Thin boards forming paddles. B) Short boards with feather shaped pieces of supple wood fixed on them. C) Short boards fitted with goose feathers., From De re metallica, by Agricola, pseudonym of





Shearing machine for manufacturing hats and explanatory caption, from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci,...
Shearing machine for manufacturing hats and explanatory caption, from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 936 recto





Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, demonstrating his pile (battery) to Napoleon, From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 1801





Chimneys on the roof of Casa Milà designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, also known as La Pedrera, the Quarry, at the Passei...
Chimneys on the roof of Casa Milà designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, also known as La Pedrera, the Quarry, at the Passeig de Gràcia, Eixample district, Barcelona, Spain, Europe





Anaximander (610- 546 BC). Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus. He belonged to the Milesian school and learne...
Anaximander (610- 546 BC). Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. Anaximandder with a sundial. Roman mosaic. 3rd century. Landesmuseum. Trier. Germany.





Graffiti on a vacant house, Zum Bahnhof, Schwerin, Mecklenburg_Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe





France, Centre-Val de Loire, Indre et Loire, Amboise, Clos-Lucé castle, exhibition of machines





Military engineering: A) Sappers using a 'sow' B) Wheeled shield with leather cover From "Poliorceticon sive de machinis torm...
Military engineering: A) Sappers using a 'sow' B) Wheeled shield with leather cover From "Poliorceticon sive de machinis tormentis telis" by Justus Lipsius (Antwerp, 1605)





Dragon's back roof and Saint George cross, Casa Batllo, Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona, Spain.





England, Tyne and Wear, Newcastle Upon Tyne. A purple arrow and red ribbon on a steel sculpture at The Centre For Life.





PUENTE GIRATORIO. Interpretación de una Maqueta realizada por Ermenegildo Menighetti, años 1952-1953, según dibujo de Leonard...
PUENTE GIRATORIO. Interpretación de una Maqueta realizada por Ermenegildo Menighetti, años 1952-1953, según dibujo de Leonardo Da Vinci. El modelo representa un puente con perfil parabólico construido sobre un arroyo. Museo Nacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Leonardo Da Vinci. Milán. Italia.





"Ala Batiente". Artilugio que aparece dibujado en un códice de LEONARDO DA VINCI (S. XV). Maqueta realizada e interpretada po...
"Ala Batiente". Artilugio que aparece dibujado en un códice de LEONARDO DA VINCI (S. XV). Maqueta realizada e interpretada por Mario Alberto y Vittorio Somenzi, 1952. Este modelo es una interpretación de un estudio de una MAQUINA VOLADORA. Museo Nacional de la Ciencia y Tecnología Leonardo Da Vinci. Milán. Italia.





Modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art, by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Graz, Styria, Aust...
Modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art, by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Graz, Styria, Austria, Europe





Architectural study of church; mechanism to draw water: hydraulic device to draw 112 barrels per hour from well deep 80 ells;...
Architectural study of church; mechanism to draw water: hydraulic device to draw 112 barrels per hour from well deep 80 ells; in the center, fountain spurting water, from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 975 recto.





Project of mechanical wing automatically bending and extending (by means of oiled springs), from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlant...
Project of mechanical wing automatically bending and extending (by means of oiled springs), from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 844 verso





Solar tree in the SolarCity residential district, Ulm, Baden_Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe





Elisa Garnerin. Portrait of Elisa Garnerin 1791-1853, French balloonist, who made parachute descents, invention of her uncle ...
Elisa Garnerin. Portrait of Elisa Garnerin 1791-1853, French balloonist, who made parachute descents, invention of her uncle Andre Jacques Garnerin. Engraving in Album of Science, Famous Scientists, Great Discovery, 1896





Montage of ballerina, paintbrush, camera film and violin bow. Keywords: arts, culture, symbolize all the arts.





Drilling tools (in connection with those of folio 65 recto and 66 recto), from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo ...
Drilling tools (in connection with those of folio 65 recto and 66 recto), from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 953 recto.





Palace of Arts Reina Sofia, by S. Calatrava, City of Arts and Sciences, Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia, Spain, Europe





Henry Bessemer (1813-98) British engineer, inventor (Bessemer steel process) and industrialist. 'Spy' (Leslie Ward) cartoon f...
Henry Bessemer (1813-98) British engineer, inventor (Bessemer steel process) and industrialist. 'Spy' (Leslie Ward) cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, November 1880





Detail of The Needle, glass viewing platform, and the facade of the modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary ...
Detail of The Needle, glass viewing platform, and the facade of the modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art, by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Graz, Styria, Austria, Europe





Black and white illustration of ancient Egyptian using awl and bow drill on a plank of wood





Mine ventilation. Hollow wooden drum, top, which had two blowholes opposite each other on the circumference, C, one to suck i...
Mine ventilation. Hollow wooden drum, top, which had two blowholes opposite each other on the circumference, C, one to suck in air and one to expel it as the drum rotated. Inside the drum, fixed to axle on which it rotated, were fans made of wood or of wood and goose quills. HHHH are rods attached t





Boring cannon. In the left foreground is a two-man treadmill and in the right background is a handmill. From "De la pirotechn...
Boring cannon. In the left foreground is a two-man treadmill and in the right background is a handmill. From "De la pirotechnia" by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 1540). Woodcut





Below, study of human leg; above, man rowing by bow of boat using large fin; in the center, millstone and crucible with burni...
Below, study of human leg; above, man rowing by bow of boat using large fin; in the center, millstone and crucible with burning coals, from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 856 recto.





MAQUINA DE CAVAR. Dibujo realizado por Leonardo Da Vinci (S. XV) que pararece dibujado en el Códice Atlantico (folio 4-1487-1...
MAQUINA DE CAVAR. Dibujo realizado por Leonardo Da Vinci (S. XV) que pararece dibujado en el Códice Atlantico (folio 4-1487-1492). Maqueta interpretada por Alexander Siriati (1952-1953). El modelo representa un artilugio cavador de zanjas o canales. Museo Nacional de la Ciencia y Tecnología Leonardo Da Vinci. Milán. Italia.





Dessert, latte macchiato mousse on a decorated plate, haute cuisine, Auberge de la Ferme Hueb, Mike Germershausen, Marckolshe...
Dessert, latte macchiato mousse on a decorated plate, haute cuisine, Auberge de la Ferme Hueb, Mike Germershausen, Marckolsheim, Alsace, France, Europe





ANDRE MARIE AMPERE. French physicist and mathematician Lyon 1775_ Marseille 1836. He implemented the theory of electromagneti...
ANDRE MARIE AMPERE. French physicist and mathematician Lyon 1775_ Marseille 1836. He implemented the theory of electromagnetism and established the basic principles of the electron theory of matter. He invented the galvometer, the first electric telegraph and, with Arago,





Mine drainage. Man in centre left of picture is boring lengths of wood with borers and augers to form pipes. Man on centre ri...
Mine drainage. Man in centre left of picture is boring lengths of wood with borers and augers to form pipes. Man on centre right is working the piston rod of a suction pump to raise water from a mine. In the left foreground are lengths of pipe to be joined, and various internal pump parts. From De r





Crane whose main boom is holding big weight, above, small size figures for equivalence of different surfaces, from Atlantic C...
Crane whose main boom is holding big weight, above, small size figures for equivalence of different surfaces, from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 834 recto





Vertical parking site, art work created by the osa Project, office for subversive architecture, on the wall of a factory buil...
Vertical parking site, art work created by the osa Project, office for subversive architecture, on the wall of a factory building, Cologne Trade Fair, Cologne, North Rhine_Westphalia, Germany, Europe





Detail of The Needle, glass viewing platform, and the facade of the modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary ...
Detail of The Needle, glass viewing platform, and the facade of the modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art, by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Graz, Styria, Austria, Europe





Lapper for concave mirrors, from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 879 recto





France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire, Amboise, Castle of Clos Lucé, last home of Léonard de Vinci, room of models, Mobile and suspe...
France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire, Amboise, Castle of Clos Lucé, last home of Léonard de Vinci, room of models, Mobile and suspended military bridge





View Of The Garden Of Mr.Reveillon With Hot Air Balloon Demonstration 1783 Claude-Louis Desrais (1746-1816 French) Colored Et...
View Of The Garden Of Mr.Reveillon With Hot Air Balloon Demonstration 1783 Claude-Louis Desrais (1746-1816 French) Colored Etching





Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) English-born American inventor and photographer, giving a talk to the Royal Society, London, o...
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) English-born American inventor and photographer, giving a talk to the Royal Society, London, on his photographic studies of animal motion. May 1889





Molienda de Espejos cóncavos. Artilugio dibujado por LEONARDO DA VINCI (S. xv). Interpretación diseñada por Mario Alberto y V...
Molienda de Espejos cóncavos. Artilugio dibujado por LEONARDO DA VINCI (S. xv). Interpretación diseñada por Mario Alberto y Vittorio Somenzi, 1957. El modelo consta de un disco montado sobre un bastidor de madera. El disco se apoya verticalmente sobre una superficie cóncava plexiglás (que simula el espejo a pulir), y se inserta en un árbol de transmisión, acoplado a una rueda dentada que a su vez engrana con el piñón. Máquina que sirve para el rectificado de los espejos. Museo Nacional de la Cie





Name of Gianni Antonio Mariola, artisan chosen for construction of mechanical wing; details of wing joints; disapproval of pe...
Name of Gianni Antonio Mariola, artisan chosen for construction of mechanical wing; details of wing joints; disapproval of perforated wing; tie-rod for bending wing, from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 854 recto.





Revolving wooden wind vanes fitted to the top of mine ventilation shafts. When they revolved they acted as extractor fans suc...
Revolving wooden wind vanes fitted to the top of mine ventilation shafts. When they revolved they acted as extractor fans sucking stale air from the mine. From De re metallica, by Agricola, pseudonym of Georg Bauer (Basle, 1556). Woodcut





Grinder for concave mirrors; above, mention of ""interlocking books"", from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da ...
Grinder for concave mirrors; above, mention of ""interlocking books"", from Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus) by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 801 recto





Mt. Rushmore National Memorial. The faces of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham ...
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial. The faces of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln were carved on the granite peak by sculptor Gutzon Borglum.





England, Cornwall, Bude. Bude Light, a 30 foot beacon of light constructed to celebrate the millennium in front of Bude Castl...
England, Cornwall, Bude. Bude Light, a 30 foot beacon of light constructed to celebrate the millennium in front of Bude Castle. Bude was home to Sir Goldsworthy Gurney who invented the 'Bude Light' used to light the House of Commons for 60 years.





French poster for the Autogiro, the invention of the Spanish engineer Juan de la Cievra (1895-1936). First successful model, ...
French poster for the Autogiro, the invention of the Spanish engineer Juan de la Cievra (1895-1936). First successful model, 1923. Aviation Aeronautics Gyroplane





Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922, at the opening of the long distance line from New York to Chicago,189...
Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922, at the opening of the long distance line from New York to Chicago,1892. Engraving 19th century





A Colombian master printer works on the letterpress machine in the print shop in Cali, Colombia, 1 June 2012 Letterpress prin...
A Colombian master printer works on the letterpress machine in the print shop in Cali, Colombia, 1 June 2012 Letterpress printing, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century, remained the primary way to print and distribute information until the second half of the 20th century The process of letterpress printing consists of composing movable types into the bed of a press, inking it, and pressing paper against it to create an impression Nowadays, due to the offset printing expansion, t





Sextant from "Le Grand Atlas" 1663 Joan Blaeu (1596-1673/Dutch) Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA





Shafts of a cannon boring machine with drilling bits on the end. The machine was powered by a treadmill, left. From "De la pi...
Shafts of a cannon boring machine with drilling bits on the end. The machine was powered by a treadmill, left. From "De la pirotechnia" by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 1540). Woodcut





Detail of the facade of the modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art, by architects Peter Cook and Colin ...
Detail of the facade of the modern building of the Kunsthaus, Museum of Contemporary Art, by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Graz, Styria, Austria, Europe





MOLINO MÚLTIPLE. Artilugio dibujado por Leonardo Da Vinci, interpretado en una maqueta por Alexander Siriati (1952-1953). El ...
MOLINO MÚLTIPLE. Artilugio dibujado por Leonardo Da Vinci, interpretado en una maqueta por Alexander Siriati (1952-1953). El modelo representa un sistema de molinos múltiples a lo largo de un río. Cuatro series de ruedas hidráulicos colocados a lo largo del canal están conectados a ejes de transmisión con piedras de molino de malla 32. Cubiertos por un techo (de invención, no está presente en el dibujo de Leonardo). Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología Leonardo Da Vinci. Milán. Italia.





Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) American Inventor From "A Travers l'Electricite" by Georges Dary (Paris, c1906) Engraving





Cannon formed of iron staves hooped together and mounted on a primitive gun carriage. The elevation of the gun could be movin...
Cannon formed of iron staves hooped together and mounted on a primitive gun carriage. The elevation of the gun could be moving the rod on the front pillar into a different slot. From "De re militari" by Roberto Valturio (Verona, 1472). Woodcut.





Mt. Rushmore National Memorial. The faces of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham ...
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial. The faces of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln were carved on the granite peak by sculptor Gutzon Borglum.





Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468) German printer in his printing works. In about 1439 he was the first in Europe to use movable ...
Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468) German printer in his printing works. In about 1439 he was the first in Europe to use movable type, and he invented the printing press. Mid-19th century illustration.





BARCO PARA EL DRAGADO. Maqueta interpretada por Louis Tursini, año 1952 según dibujos de Leonardo Da Vinci (S. XV). El modelo...
BARCO PARA EL DRAGADO. Maqueta interpretada por Louis Tursini, año 1952 según dibujos de Leonardo Da Vinci (S. XV). El modelo representa un barco formado por dos cascos unidos por una plataforma. Su función era para el dragado de los puertos. Museo Nacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Leonardo da Vinci. Milán. Italia.





Vertical parking site, art work created by the osa Project, office for subversive architecture, on the wall of a factory buil...
Vertical parking site, art work created by the osa Project, office for subversive architecture, on the wall of a factory building, Cologne Trade Fair, Cologne, North Rhine_Westphalia, Germany, Europe





France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire, Amboise, Castle of Clos Lucé, last home of Léonard de Vinci, room of models, great scling lad...
France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire, Amboise, Castle of Clos Lucé, last home of Léonard de Vinci, room of models, great scling ladder





Means of transporting ore which has been won from a mine. In the foreground is a horse-drawn sledge, at D dogs are being used...
Means of transporting ore which has been won from a mine. In the foreground is a horse-drawn sledge, at D dogs are being used as pack animals and at E a man is pulling full pig skins. At B a sledge is being ridden down a slope. From De re metallica, by Agricola, pseudonym of Georg Bauer (Basle,





L´Hemisferic, by S. Calatrava, City of Arts and Sciences, Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia, Spain, Europe





Ingenieria militar: Artilugio que aparece dibujado en el códice Atlántico (folio 152 1485-1490), de LEONARDO DA VINCI. Maquet...
Ingenieria militar: Artilugio que aparece dibujado en el códice Atlántico (folio 152 1485-1490), de LEONARDO DA VINCI. Maqueta que reproduce maquina de guerra de tradición medieval de doble catapulta. Museo Nacional de la Ciencia y Tecnología Leonardo Da Vinci. Milán. Italia.





Illustration of the areas of the brain that are active while creating a work of art. The primary motor cortex (orange area) u...
Illustration of the areas of the brain that are active while creating a work of art. The primary motor cortex (orange area) uses the brush thanks to the primary somatosensory cortex (light pink area). The visual cortex (dark pink area) controls drawing, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (green area) activates creativity and the limbic system (yellow area) orchestrates emotion throughout.





Louis Braille (1809-1852) French inventor of braille system of reading and writing for the blind From "La Nature" (Paris, 188...
Louis Braille (1809-1852) French inventor of braille system of reading and writing for the blind From "La Nature" (Paris, 1887) Engraving





Modelo que interpreta un estudio de mecanismo para la propulsión de alas batientes dibujada por Leonardo Da Vinci en el Códic...
Modelo que interpreta un estudio de mecanismo para la propulsión de alas batientes dibujada por Leonardo Da Vinci en el Códice Atlantico (S. XV). Maqueta diseñada por Mario Alberto y Vittorio Somenzi, 1952-1953. Museo Nacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Leonardo da Vinci. Milán. Italia.





Palace of Arts Reina Sofia, by S. Calatrava, City of Arts and Sciences, Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia, Spain, Europe

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