Things: A Volume of Objects Devised by Man's Genius which are the Measure of His CivilizationGeoffrey Grigson, Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith Hawthorn Books, 1957 - 466 Seiten |
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... began a re- volution in transport . Four - wheeled , weather- proof , more sumptuously equipped , lighter and more comfortable , since the body was suspended on leather straps , the new vehicle looked forward over the centuries to the ...
... began a re- volution in transport . Four - wheeled , weather- proof , more sumptuously equipped , lighter and more comfortable , since the body was suspended on leather straps , the new vehicle looked forward over the centuries to the ...
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... began in laboratory experiments remote from the thought of practical applications . Un- explained observations gradually accumulated from 1780 to 1888 ; work was done on electro- magnetic waves by Clerk Maxwell and later by Heinrich ...
... began in laboratory experiments remote from the thought of practical applications . Un- explained observations gradually accumulated from 1780 to 1888 ; work was done on electro- magnetic waves by Clerk Maxwell and later by Heinrich ...
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... began about 2500 B.C. in the great cities of the Indus Valley , Harappa and Mohenjo - daro , and in the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia - e.g. Ur of the Chaldees . In Egypt all the early evidence points to commerce by barter : the first ...
... began about 2500 B.C. in the great cities of the Indus Valley , Harappa and Mohenjo - daro , and in the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia - e.g. Ur of the Chaldees . In Egypt all the early evidence points to commerce by barter : the first ...
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GROTTO at Painshill Park Surrey SirènChina | 186 |
Kircher Ars magna lucis | 294 |
Mavungu Pitt Rivers Museum | 399 |
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Ambroise Paré ancient Arabic bath became blade bone Britain Bronze Age built carved century A.D. China Chinese cloth colour cylinder developed dirhem earliest early East Egypt Egyptian eighteenth century engine England English Euripides Europe feet fibres fire flint fountain pen France glass gold grains Greece Greek grotto hand horse ILLUSTRATION inches instrument internal-combustion engine invented Iron Age King known lamp later London machine material medieval ment mesolithic Mesopotamia metal Middle Ages millennium B.C. modern Mohenjo-daro Museum Mycenaean neolithic nineteenth century painted palaeolithic patented plough Pound printed produced razor Roman rope round round barrow rubber safety-pin seventeenth century shape sickle silk silver sixteenth century sledges soap steam stone Sumerian tapestry teeth thermoscope thread tion toothpick totem totem poles Tower Pound tree Troy Troy Pound tube turn tury tyres weight wheel wood wooden ziggurat