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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... invented a flexible shaft , consist- ing of a closely coiled spiral wire , for driving small drills . Such a shaft , enclosed in a flexible cable , was soon used in dental work . In fact , it was re- invented by others more than once ...
... invented a flexible shaft , consist- ing of a closely coiled spiral wire , for driving small drills . Such a shaft , enclosed in a flexible cable , was soon used in dental work . In fact , it was re- invented by others more than once ...
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... invented and established by others , chiefly in America . Ill fortune was also to attend the French tailor , Barthélemy Thimmonier , of Saint - Étienne , who invented a chain - stitch sewing - machine in 1829 . A chain - stitch is ...
... invented and established by others , chiefly in America . Ill fortune was also to attend the French tailor , Barthélemy Thimmonier , of Saint - Étienne , who invented a chain - stitch sewing - machine in 1829 . A chain - stitch is ...
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... invented by the ancient Chinese as well as by the Arabs . In fact , they were invented , probably by Roger Bacon , about 1280 . Pliny in the first century A.D. knew that lens- shaped crystals caused the sun's rays to con- verge and that ...
... invented by the ancient Chinese as well as by the Arabs . In fact , they were invented , probably by Roger Bacon , about 1280 . Pliny in the first century A.D. knew that lens- shaped crystals caused the sun's rays to con- verge and that ...
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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