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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... record for aero- planes had risen to 126-7 miles an hour , and the record for duration to twenty - four hours twelve minutes . The highest altitude reached was 25,786 feet ; and by the late nineteen - twenties air trans- port had taken ...
... record for aero- planes had risen to 126-7 miles an hour , and the record for duration to twenty - four hours twelve minutes . The highest altitude reached was 25,786 feet ; and by the late nineteen - twenties air trans- port had taken ...
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... records , photographs and equipment all in perfect condition . 15 Even as late as 1935 the balloon was winning its ... record for man- carrying aircraft . The aesthetic delights of ballooning are no lon- ger sufficiently exploited . In ...
... records , photographs and equipment all in perfect condition . 15 Even as late as 1935 the balloon was winning its ... record for man- carrying aircraft . The aesthetic delights of ballooning are no lon- ger sufficiently exploited . In ...
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... record was abandoned for a disc . The recording point was so mounted that its vibrations were in the plane of the recording surface instead of at right angles to it , as in the older instrument . Thus the point cut , and in the ...
... record was abandoned for a disc . The recording point was so mounted that its vibrations were in the plane of the recording surface instead of at right angles to it , as in the older instrument . Thus the point cut , and in 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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