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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... tion of metal cogs , is able to approach the speed of travel of electricity . Thus the machine at Man- chester University can perform 1,000 addition sums or 400 multiplications in a second , handling numbers of any size up to a billion ...
... tion of metal cogs , is able to approach the speed of travel of electricity . Thus the machine at Man- chester University can perform 1,000 addition sums or 400 multiplications in a second , handling numbers of any size up to a billion ...
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... tion . The electric discharge lamp began as an arc between carbon electrodes in air , the carbon being more or less rapidly consumed ; it is now more commonly an arc in an atmosphere of mercury vapour or sodium vapour or neon gas inside ...
... tion . The electric discharge lamp began as an arc between carbon electrodes in air , the carbon being more or less rapidly consumed ; it is now more commonly an arc in an atmosphere of mercury vapour or sodium vapour or neon gas inside ...
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... tion of gunpowder . These were no more than patterned displays of fire , for which there is evi- dence both in the West and the Far East . Thus a Chinese poem of the seventh century A.D. says : Flames of fire move round the wheel ...
... tion of gunpowder . These were no more than patterned displays of fire , for which there is evi- dence both in the West and the Far East . Thus a Chinese poem of the seventh century A.D. says : Flames of fire move round the wheel ...
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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