Music, illustration, graphic design, and other interesting things.
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Author:Rassweiler, Henry H.
Title:Portfolio of Life; or a Popular Study of the House in which we Live.
Place:Chicago
Publisher:Western Publishing House
Date:1891
Item # :196119
Description:
148, [6] pp. Full page and multilayer chromolithographs. (Folio) 12½x8, purple leather lettered in silver and rebacked with paper spine.
Beautifully illustrated instructional volume containing multilayer chromolithographs of human anatomical structures including the abdomino-thorax at front pastedown, the arm and leg at rear pastedown, and within the text the eye, the ear, and the head.
Image from the auction of the Medical & Science Library of Gerald I. Sugarman, MD by PBA Galleries: Auctioneers and Appraisers, to be held on 11/20/2008.
Uploaded by astropop on 9 Nov 08, 11.36AM PST.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Radio City Music Hall, New York City NY, Thirties
Since: 27-12-1932
Address: 1260 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, New York
CinemaTreasures.org ID: 55
The back reads: "RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
is the world’s largest theatre. Part of a capacity audience of 6,200 persons is shown watching the spectacular stage show that is a weekly feauture at this giant playhouse."
Printed in 1936, ©Interborough News Co., 525 West 52nd Street., New York, N.Y.
Uploaded by Roloff on 11 Jul 07, 6.31AM PST.
Friday, November 07, 2008
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Australian Device Makes Maps Of the Ground It Covers
The odd apparatus at left is the Australian “co-graph”, which automatically maps the ground over which it moves. Named for its inventor, Lt. Col. H. J. F. Coe, the machine can be operated by a pedestrian or set up in a trailer (PSM, Dec. '44, p. 134). The co-graph obtains direction by being oriented with a sensitive compass; gets distance from a calibrated ground wheel. Drive from the wheel turns a paper-carrying roller under a fixed pencil, and thus a course is plotted to scale. The co-graph’s upper part - sighting tube, compass, mirror, and map-making equipment- weighs only 10 pounds and is strapped to the user’s body.
Source :
blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/09/13/australian-device-make...
Uploaded by Marc Wathieu on 5 Nov 08, 2.38PM CST.