Principle Collection (page 3)

A sauterelle, or grasshopper, being loaded with grenades by French soldiers. Working on a cross-bow principle, the sauterelle could throw grenades a distance of ninety yards

American Indians. The peaceful extinctoin of the red indian
In all their war paint, Chiefs of the vanishing Sioux tribe. The Sioux were originally the principle tribe in Dakota. By 1851 they had lost nearly all of their land

Pygmalion & Statue
Although he detests women on principle, the sculptor Pygmalion falls in love with his statue, and Aphrodite brings her to life, they marry, have a child Paphia

Autographic telegraphy
D Arlincourts autographic telegraph, able to transmit a copy of handwriting by electric currents. Several versions based on a similar principle were in circulation during the mid-19th century

Tide predicting machine: front view
Photograph of the front view of the tide-predicting machine, designed by Lord Kelvin in 1876. Constructed by Lege for the Indian government

Musschenbroek / Leyden Jar
Pieter van Musschenbroek, Dutch mathematician and physicist, performs electrical experiments at Leide, where he is a Professor. He discovered the principle of Leyden jar

The patent elevator and observatory
Engraving of the patent elevator and observatory showing a man being elevated into the air for viewing purposes. During the siege of Sebastopol a view of the enemys works was required

William Flinders Petrie
SIR WILLIAM MATTHEW FLINDERS PETRIE English Egyptologist. Developed principle of sequence dating of potsherds

Commencement of the tunnel at Kings Cross
The commencement of the tunnel at Kings Cross. Kings Cross was proposed to be a principle terminal station. The underground was deemed to be the solution for convenient travel in densely populated

Cowpers Writing Telegraph
A diagram of Cowpers writing telegraph. Invented in 1878 by William Cowper (1819-1893), the machine was able to reproduce a message written some distance away by a process of interrupted electrical

Marine telephone
A telephone or marine alarum being used by a sailor. This worked on the principle of sending air through a series of valves and pistons to make various notes

Key Buildings 1850 / World
A comparative view of the principle buildings of the World in 1850 including the High Level Bridge - St Peters Rome - The Great Pyramid - The Porcelain Pagoda in Nanjing

C P SCOTT
CHARLES PRESTWICH SCOTT, influential editor of the Manchester Guardian, who enunciated the principle Comment is free, but facts are sacred

Telescope discovery
Jacob Metzu, lensmaker of Middelburg, discovers principle of telescope when his son plays with lenses. Oddly, his fellow-townsman Lippershey does precisely the same

American Soldier-Hero
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER-HERO As a young man he volunteered To fight for the red, white and blue; And to this principle adhered When of our Nations peril he knew

Stevens Screw Propeller
American engineer John Stevens is the first to apply the screw principle to propel a steamboat, though it will be some time before his device replaces the paddle wheel

Rocket Train Project
This is German inventor Max Valiers magnetic rail car project of 1932, but given a face-lift by the American publisher. It sounds great in principle, but

Merryweather Turntable
In 1908 Merryweathers designed and constructed the first motor fire-ladder built on the one-engine principle, using the same motor which propelled the vehicle

Heavier than Air
The fundamental principle of heavier-than-air flight can be demonstrated in the family circle, where flying saucers and crockery-propulsion are an everyday phenomenon

Jeremy Bentham
JEREMY BENTHAM Jurist and philosopher, promoter of principle of the greatest happiness of the greatest number

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