Automata Old and NewImprinted at the Chiswick Press, 1893 - 117 páginas |
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... Hero ; and his remarkable book " Spiritalia , " of which I am able to show you several copies to - night , is itself a great storehouse of ingenuity in the construction of automata of very various forms and principles . This re ...
... Hero ; and his remarkable book " Spiritalia , " of which I am able to show you several copies to - night , is itself a great storehouse of ingenuity in the construction of automata of very various forms and principles . This re ...
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... Hero's work is a bird which , by means of a B. Fig . 1 . с stream of water , is caused to pipe or sing . This little automaton consists of a pedestal ( A B C D ) ( Fig . 1 ) , which is in reality a water - tight tank fitted with a ...
... Hero's work is a bird which , by means of a B. Fig . 1 . с stream of water , is caused to pipe or sing . This little automaton consists of a pedestal ( A B C D ) ( Fig . 1 ) , which is in reality a water - tight tank fitted with a ...
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... Hero for the opening of the doors of a temple , B Fig . 5 . the tradition being that when a sacrifice was offered on her altar the goddess Isis showed her invisible presence by throwing open the doors of her sanctuary . In this case the ...
... Hero for the opening of the doors of a temple , B Fig . 5 . the tradition being that when a sacrifice was offered on her altar the goddess Isis showed her invisible presence by throwing open the doors of her sanctuary . In this case the ...
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... Hero had his plagiarists , his devices having been adopted and described by later writers without one word of acknowledg- ment as to their authorship . From the middle to the end of the seventeenth century several books appeared which ...
... Hero had his plagiarists , his devices having been adopted and described by later writers without one word of acknowledg- ment as to their authorship . From the middle to the end of the seventeenth century several books appeared which ...
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... into the Bucket , which when ( by reason of the water ) it is be- come heavier than the waight , it will draw it up and so open the sayd gates or little doores . " Again , in one of Hero's illustrations a revolv- ing. 28 AUTOMATA.
... into the Bucket , which when ( by reason of the water ) it is be- come heavier than the waight , it will draw it up and so open the sayd gates or little doores . " Again , in one of Hero's illustrations a revolv- ing. 28 AUTOMATA.
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action Agostino Ramelli altar ancient animal Archytas Aulus Gellius auto automata AUTOMATA OLD automaton Bedford Park BERNARD QUARITCH bird bucket century CHARLES HOLME CHARLES WELSH clock constructed copies Cox's Museum curious delivered at Willis's described device digestion Ditto doll Edition limited EDWARD HERON-ALLEN exhibited figure Freemasons Friday hammermen head Hero Hero's HERON-ALLEN illustration imitated Inaugural Address inches ingenious invention JAMES ROBERTS BROWN Kempelen king legs levers limited to 133 limited to 255 Limmer's Hotel little door London mechanician Mechanick MORT THOMPSON moving Odd Volumes Oddship Bro Oddship EDWARD F Oddship GEORGE CLULOW opened pedestal performed Peter Ramus pieces of mechanism pipe Presented President produced Queen Street Ramelli Robert-Houdin rotated Secretary Sette by Bro Sette of Odd sing strings T. C. VENABLES taking office tank Tavern tion tube turns Vaucanson Vice-President W. M. THOMPSON WALFORD WALTER HAMILTON weight wheel Wilkins Willis's Rooms wonderful WYMAN Ye Sette
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Página 96 - A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
Página 29 - Water-works. shewing the easiest waies to raise water higher then the spring ; by which invention the perpetual motion is proposed, many hard labours performed and varieties of motions anu sounds produced.
Página 13 - Full twenty tripods for his hall he framed, That placed on living wheels of massy gold, (Wondrous to tell), instinct with spirit roll'd From place to place, around the blessed abodes Self-moved, obedient to the beck of Gods : For their fair handles now, o'erwrought with flowers, In moulds prepared the glowing ore he pours.
Página 104 - CLUBS," then delivered by Bro. BERNARD QUARITCH, Librarian. By Bro. WM THOMPSON, Historiographer. Presented to the Sette by His Oddship GEORGE CLULOW. Edition limited to 255 copies. 16. Codex Chiromantiae.
Página 103 - April 17th, 1885, &c. (pp. 56.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship JAMES ROBERTS BROWN. Edition limited to 133 copies. 9. Catalogue of Works of Art Exhibited at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Friday, July nth, 1884.
Página 49 - ... into the ear thereof, it will presently open its mouth, and resolve the question in French, Latin, Welsh, Irish, or English, in good terms, uttering it out of his mouth, and then shut it until the next question be asked.
Página 104 - DISCOURSE CONCERNING AUTOGRAPHS AND THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS. Spoken in valediction at Willis's Rooms, on October the 8th, 1886, by Bro. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN, (pp. 45.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship GEORGE CLULOW. Edition limited to 133 copies.
Página 96 - It gives me wonder great as my content, To see you here before me. O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd...
Página 49 - He also quoted some evidence in support of the view that the disease occurred at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century in Germany and more definite evidence that it occurred in Upper Italy and Hungary in 1890.
Página 99 - With a few Words on the Philanthropic Publisher of St. Paul's Churchyard. A Paper read at a Meeting of the Sette of Odd Volumes by Brother CHARLES WELSH, Chapman of the Sette, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Friday, the 8th day of January, 12.