Life going on underground has always been very interesting to me--particularly so when a good tech story is accompanied by great art. This is certainly the case with the cover story for the September ...

Thomas Cooper, a merry, upper-educated intellectual called “a learned and talented mapcap” by none other than John Adams, wrote from his secure chair South Carolina College a translation of a rather ...

[George Fred Keck] Green’s Ready-Built Homes Present the Solar Home,The Solar Home. 1944, copyright: Green's Ready-Built Homes, Rockford, Illinois. 12pp. 11.5x8 ...

Marchione di Coppo Stefani was born in Florence in 1336. He wrote his Florentine Chronicle in the late 1370s and early 1380s. [Stefani, Marchione di Coppo.Cronaca fiorentina. Rerum Italicarum ...

ITEM (1): "Launcing an Aeroplane..." Illustrated London News, 1919. 13x10 inches. Fine. $45 ITEM (2): "The Clapham Junction..." Illustrated London News, 1919. 10x13 inches. Fine. $45 Full descriptions ...

John Alexander Henderson. J.A. Henderson's Intellectual and Practical Lightning Calculator, A.L. Bancroft, San Francisco, 1872. First edition. Original wrappers. 7x5", 79pp. Provenance: Library of ...

And all that appears confusedly on walls is very like the vibration of bells: you can hear in their ringing all the sounds or words you want to imagine." - Leonardo da Vinci 1492 Finding recurring ...

From darkness to promote me?"--John Milton, Paradise Lost (X.743–5) The animated human created by Victor Frankenstein in 20-year-old Mary Shelley's anonymously published Frankenstein, or the Modern ...

Somewhere between transporting the Fat Man bomb to the loading lift and raising it up into the bomb bay of Major Charles Sweeny's B-29 Superfortress Bockscar, it acquired a stencil-painted acronym: ...

Nicolas de Larmessin (1640-1725) was an enormously creative and productive artist, and in his way created a genre similar to the great and ancient Dance of Death/.Danse Macabre/Totentanz--though his ...

This is the first installment of a chronology of the anatomical representation of the heart, along with a few metaphorical images tossed in. No commentary yet--just a quick post. All images are either ...

This paper is one a small archive of background and draft papers and proposals by the Vannevar Bush group working on the question of the control of atomic weapons and the formalization of the American ...