Automata Old and NewImprinted at the Chiswick Press, 1893 - 117 páginas |
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... strings of beads to represent hair . Puppets were also in use with the Greeks , and afterwards found their way to Rome , and it is an in- teresting fact that , about three years ago , while the ground was being ex- Fig . 15. cavated for ...
... strings of beads to represent hair . Puppets were also in use with the Greeks , and afterwards found their way to Rome , and it is an in- teresting fact that , about three years ago , while the ground was being ex- Fig . 15. cavated for ...
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... strings , which were called ' NevρoσTaora . " In so eminently proper Νευροσπαστα . a community as we are in Ye Sette of Odd Volumes , I am unable to describe these figures in detail , or to exhibit them in action , but those who are ...
... strings , which were called ' NevρoσTaora . " In so eminently proper Νευροσπαστα . a community as we are in Ye Sette of Odd Volumes , I am unable to describe these figures in detail , or to exhibit them in action , but those who are ...
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... strings pulled by hand which were afterwards supplanted by cylinders turned by a winch , and the transition from that arrangement to the use of weights and springs was inevitable and was only a question of time . From the time of Hero I ...
... strings pulled by hand which were afterwards supplanted by cylinders turned by a winch , and the transition from that arrangement to the use of weights and springs was inevitable and was only a question of time . From the time of Hero I ...
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Conrad William Cooke. scribed as similar to that of the snapping of a harp string , but it has been silent since the time of Severus . It is a seated figure nearly sixty feet in height , and is in no sense an automa- ton , but I mention ...
Conrad William Cooke. scribed as similar to that of the snapping of a harp string , but it has been silent since the time of Severus . It is a seated figure nearly sixty feet in height , and is in no sense an automa- ton , but I mention ...
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... strings passing over pulleys , the legs and arms are always brought into suitable positions to support the figure in every position of its descent . I now come to the automaton which for some years was the wonder of every country in ...
... strings passing over pulleys , the legs and arms are always brought into suitable positions to support the figure in every position of its descent . I now come to the automaton which for some years was the wonder of every country in ...
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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.