Antique Inventions

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The lively movement and expressive characterizations exemplify Rowlandson’s mastery of narrative illustration and comic invention. Above the image, the elaborate calligraphic title ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

These lamps are definitively marked "A C Paris BPVETÉ" (likely A C Breveté), signifying they were a patented invention from a specialized Parisian manufacturer.

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

He uses them with perfect freedom, according to his tendencies which are of elegance rather than strength, with a perpetual need for invention. He does not shrink from audacity, nor ...

Comes from Cavendish's one volume "Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser Les Chevaux", (1737) (Second edition), which consists of 42 double-paged engravings.

These wooden boards were used to smoothe and press linen before the invention of modern irons. Damp linen was wrapped around a roller and then the board was rocked back and forth ove...

Fol. 14 from the book 'Methode et Invention Nouvelle de dresser les chevaux' Engraver: Lucas Emil I Vorsterman (1595–1675) Designer: Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596–1675) Author of th...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

These wooden boards were used to smoothe and press linen before the invention of modern irons. Damp linen was wrapped around a roller and then the board was rocked back and forth ove...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

These travels fundamentally shaped his oeuvre, grounding his Orientalist imagery in direct observation rather than romantic invention. The title Mashallah!—an Arabic expression mean...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The stunning design is placed upon a powder-blue ground, an important invention at the Wedgwood factory. Dimensions: 10 in.

He filed several patents for inventions that fuelled the major artistic movements of the 20th century, such as Surrealism and Dadaism.

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Glass has been a prevalent feature of costume pieces since the invention of fashion jewellery. It's extremely suitable for meeting the ever challenging and changing demands of costum...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

He uses them with perfect freedom, according to his tendencies which are of elegance rather than strength, with a perpetual need for invention. He does not shrink from audacity, nor ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

A true German classic, exported worldwide, also to the US. The invention of the marble scissors in Lauscha by Elias Greiner in the mid-19th century led to a rapid increase in glass m...

His famous Pensées and invention of the early mechanical calculator, the Pascaline, secured his legacy as a central figure of the 17th-century intellectual world.

The attribution of the painting to Antonio Zanchi is well founded both stylistically and in terms of the compositional invention of the canvas, despite the fact that Prometheus icono...

Wilson explains his invention in his patent for 'Swing Seat for Drays' on April 7, 1898, starting at line 12, "Drivers of heavy trucks and wagon experience much annoyance and often s...

The prints were originally published as the sixth and ninth plates of Cavendish's "A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses..." A General System of Horsemanship in ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

This chandelier dates to around the invention of electricity, and thus features downward facing lights, a novelty of the electric light era.

In some of the costlier models, the cylinders could be removed to change melodies, thanks to an invention by Paillard in 1862, which was perfected by Metert of Geneva in 1879.

Due to the quality of his manufacturing, his name became a by-word amongst British Engineers for engineering excellence and many of his inventions are on display in the Science Museu...

It captures the American steel industry at the height of its symbolic, economic, and cultural power, while simultaneously asserting photography’s capacity to engage industry as a sit...

Image size is 20.5" x 20.5". The invention of Yuzen-Birodo was credited to Nishimura Sozaemon, the famous Kyoto textiles firm, in 1868.

., ont été imaginées, nullement pour éveiller de isées voluptueuses, mais en vue de l'invention d'arrangements, gracieux et delicats." Translated as; "The fantasies entitled: The Was...

Reading platform - 33in x 17in (84cm x 43cm) Table surface height - 28in to 42.24in (71cm to 107.5cm) Base width - Note: John Carter of 6a New Cavendish Street, Portland-Place, Lon...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

If you added a measure of rum or brandy the mixture was called flip, and was popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Prior to this invention, they...

Bozzetti were crucial to artistic conception, mediating between invention and final realisation. In the Baroque period and the early 18th century, particularly in Rome, they played a...

Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhou...

Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhou...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Glass has been a prevalent feature of costume pieces since the invention of fashion jewellery. It's extremely suitable for meeting the ever challenging and changing demands of costum...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhou...

Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhou...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.

The pioneering photographer is remembered for his many contributions to the history of photography and in particular for his innovation and invention of new photographic techniques.