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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... eighteenth century the manufacture of true porcelain had spread over the Continent , although France as a result of French research continued for a long while to produce a soft - bodied pseudo - porcelain . Early in the century some ...
... eighteenth century the manufacture of true porcelain had spread over the Continent , although France as a result of French research continued for a long while to produce a soft - bodied pseudo - porcelain . Early in the century some ...
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... eighteenth - cen- tury humanitarianism , which is said to have been first employed in 1760 for the execution of Earl Rivers . Its aim is to substitute for the dance of the dying man an instantaneous death by break- ing his neck . To do ...
... eighteenth - cen- tury humanitarianism , which is said to have been first employed in 1760 for the execution of Earl Rivers . Its aim is to substitute for the dance of the dying man an instantaneous death by break- ing his neck . To do ...
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... eighteenth cen-. separate device , as the pen divided into nib and holder . In 1810 the first patent was granted in America to P. Williamson ( of Baltimore ) for the manu- facture of metallic pens . In 1822 J. Mitchell in- vented the ...
... eighteenth cen-. separate device , as the pen divided into nib and holder . In 1810 the first patent was granted in America to P. Williamson ( of Baltimore ) for the manu- facture of metallic pens . In 1822 J. Mitchell in- vented the ...
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GROTTO at Painshill Park Surrey SirènChina | 186 |
Kircher Ars magna lucis | 294 |
Mavungu Pitt Rivers Museum | 399 |
Urheberrecht | |
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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