EditorialThe inside of the balloon inflated with air, Albert Tissandier, Gaston Tissandier and Gabriel Mangin inside the hot air balloon Union, Signed: A. Marie; J. Gauchard, Fig. 102, p. 491, Marie, Adrien (del.); Gauchard, Jean (sc.), 1870, James Glaisher; Ca...
EditorialSmall electric dirigible aerostat of M. Gaston Tissandier, built in 1881, and functioning inflated with pure hydrogen, Hydrogen airship equipped with an electric motor in the workshop of Gaston Tissandier 1881, Fig. 62, p. 240, 1887, Gaston Tissandier:...
EditorialJulius Caesar holds a manuscript above the surface of water J. Caesar Alexandriae ad navem proximam nando evadens (title on object), Above the performance a vellum with the representation of two pairs of inflated bags. Print marked lower right: T.I. P....
EditorialNorthwestern India, Punjab. Native population crossing the Beas river with inflated skins (mussaks). Engraving. La Ilustracion Espa?ola y Americana, April 8, 1876.
EditorialStrombus canarium, Print, Laevistrombus canarium commonly known as the dog conch or by its better-known synonym, Strombus canarium) is a species of edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae (true conches). Known from illustr...
EditorialThe Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop, After Having Remained in the Water During Five Hours.
EditorialMussock raft (kutnau). A European man is seated on a raft made from inflated bullock skins, on the Beas River at Dera Gopipur. This is presumably Harry Arthur Vale Thompson, 1st Gurkha Rifles. . Source: OIOC Photo 651(32),.
EditorialMussock raft (kutnau). A European man is seated on a raft made from inflated bullock skins, on the Beas River at Dera Gopipur. This is presumably Harry Arthur Vale Thompson, 1st Gurkha Rifles. . Source: OIOC Photo 651(32),.
EditorialFools, or Jesters. The Costume of the original inhabitants of the Bri. R. Havell: London, 1815. Fools or jesters, Anno 1272. In his hands he holds a a stick to which an inflated bladder is fastened, in the other a paper or folded parchment. Image take...
Editorial'The inflated frog'. Satirical picture of a man, possibly a soldier, depictated as a frog, . Funny folks. : A weekly budget of funny pictures, notes, jokes and stories. London, 1889. Source: Funny folks. 4 May 1889 page 137.
EditorialThe Long-Winded Speech, or the oratorical organ harmonized with sublime and beautiful inflation. 1788. In this caricature, the politician and dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan presents his charges against Hastings to the House of Lords. Sheridan is d...
EditorialThe Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop, After Having Remained in the Water During Five Hours.
EditorialGlass cosmetic flask with four compartments (kohl tube), Late Imperial or Early Byzantine, 5th?6th century A.D., Roman, Syrian, Glass; blown and trailed, H. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm), Glass, Translucent blue green, appearing greenish blue at bottom; handle a...
EditorialGlass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube), Late Imperial, 4th century A.D., Roman, Syrian, Glass; blown and trailed, Overall: 7 9/16in. (19.2cm), Glass, Translucent pale blue green; handles and trail in same color., Rim folded slightly in and pressed fla...
EditorialGlass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube), Late Imperial, 4th century A.D., Roman, Glass; blown and trailed, Overall: 5in. (12.7cm), Glass, Translucent pale green, combined with translucent blue green; trails in translucent pale green., Thick, everted ri...
EditorialLooking glass, 1685?1705, Probably made in England, British, probably, Walnut veneer, red pine, and glass, 35 1/4 x 24 in. (89.5 x 61 cm), Furniture, Looking glasses were among the most prized furniture imports from England, and their prices remained i...
EditorialMen of the Kingdom of Gingiro crossing the Gibe River (Zebee River) in Ethiopia using an inflated cowskin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence,...
EditorialModel of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, featuring a double profile portrait from a gold medal designed by Houdon and an inflated balloon by H. Thiriat, sc.
EditorialBuccinum humphreysianum (Inflated buccinum, Buccinum inflatum). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1810.
EditorialModel of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, featuring a double profile portrait from a gold medal designed by Houdon and an inflated balloon by H. Thiriat, sc.
EditorialAssyrian soldiers assault a fortified city by swimming across a river on inflated animal skins. Detail from Ashurnazirpal's siege of a city. Stone bas-relief (9th BCE) from the palace of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia.