Friday, June 10, 2011

Circular Slide Rule (1918)

Joseph Lipka, Graphical and Mechanical Computation (New York: Joseph Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1918).

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Phantasmoscope (1907)

D. C. Beard, The American Boys Handy Book (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907)

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Concrete Harbor Light House (1908)

H.R. Matthei and J. Guerni, "Design and Details of a Concrete Reinforced Harbor Lighthouse" (BS Thesis, Armour Institute of Technology, 1908).





Friday, June 3, 2011

Observations on the Mystery of Print (1937)





Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Observations on the Mystery of Print (New York: Book Manufacturer's Institute, 1937).


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Type Writing Machine (1898)


Thaddeus Cahill. 1896. Type Writing Machine. U.S. Patent 600,120, filed October 21, 1896, issued March 1, 1898.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Jet Over Jackson Park (2010)

"Jet Over Jackson Park," 41°47'08.24" N   87°34'44.69" W, Google Earth, Jul 1, 2010, May 29, 2011.

Friday, May 27, 2011

The Rabbit (1898)








James Edmund Harting, The Rabbit, with a chapter on cookery by Alexander Innes Shand. Illustrations by Archibald Thorburn, G.E. Lodge, S. Aiken, and Charles Whymper, Alfred E.T. Watson, series editor (London, New York, & Bombay: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1898).


Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Ocean Marine Telegraph (1861)


William Henry Ward, Second Edition of Ward's Ocean Marine Telegraph Illustrated (London: William Henry Ward, 1861)

Tuesday, May 24, 2011