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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... built and tested a full - sized glider and launched it with a boy on board just before 1850 , but little is known of the event . The French sea - captain Le Bris also built a crude glider shaped after the albatross , with which he ...
... built and tested a full - sized glider and launched it with a boy on board just before 1850 , but little is known of the event . The French sea - captain Le Bris also built a crude glider shaped after the albatross , with which he ...
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... built rampart and no ditch ; at Chûn Castle in Cornwall the massive granite defences are combined only with shallow ditches . This hill- fort was used by prehistoric tin - miners . Great skill often went into building the rampart ...
... built rampart and no ditch ; at Chûn Castle in Cornwall the massive granite defences are combined only with shallow ditches . This hill- fort was used by prehistoric tin - miners . Great skill often went into building the rampart ...
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... built one pumping engine at Raglan Castle before the Civil War , and he built another at Vauxhall after the war . Deeper mining at this time posed urgent prob- lems of water and pumping , which were a stimu- lus to practical ...
... built one pumping engine at Raglan Castle before the Civil War , and he built another at Vauxhall after the war . Deeper mining at this time posed urgent prob- lems of water and pumping , which were a stimu- lus to practical ...
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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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