- Old Eprouvette Pendulum
The only real use of these eprouvettes is to check and verify the uniformity of a current manufacture of powder, where a certain course of operations is intended to be regularly pursued, and where the strength, tested by means of any instrument, should therefore be uniform. - New Pattern Eprouvette
The only real use of these eprouvettes is to check and verify the uniformity of a current manufacture of powder, where a certain course of operations is intended to be regularly pursued, and where the strength, tested by means of any instrument, should therefore be uniform. - Musketeer
- Moolik i Meidan
One of the largest cannon now existing is a brass one at Bejapoor, called “Moolik-i-Meidan,” or “The Lord of the Plain.” It was cast in commemoration of the capture of that place by the Emperor Alum Geer, in 1685. Its length is 14ft. 1in., diameter about 5ft. 8in., diameter of bore, 2ft. 4in., interior length of bore, 10ft.; length of chamber unknown; shape of gun nearly “cylindrical;” description of shot, stone. An iron shot for this gun, of proper size, would weigh 1600lbs. It is now lying in a dilapidated circular bastion on the left of the principal gateway of the city. The trunnions are broken off, and there is a ring on each side of it, as well as two Persian inscriptions on the top. It is placed on three heavy beams of wood, packed round with large stones. A number of stone shot, of 2ft. 2in. in diameter, are scattered about. This gun is said to be the heaviest piece of ordnance in the world. It weighs about forty-two tons. - Mons Meg
- Mode of mounting
- Mode of Mounting (2)
- Method of obtaining elevation
- Matchlock
Breech loading Gingal (Chamber in) - Machine for throwing stones
- Machine for throwing stones 3
- Machine for throwing stones 2
- Machine for throwing darts
- Long Serpentine of Wrought Iron
- Hydraulic Press
- Hooped Cannon in wooden bed
- Hand or Arrow Rocket
- Gun and Querrel
- Giorgio Martini,
- From the wreck of the 'Mary Rose'
- Five barrelled Matchlock
The Chinese of the present day make use of a species of matchlock revolvers, and also of another matchlock, consisting of several barrels, placed on a common stock, diverging from each other, and fired simultaneously. - Early part of 15th Century
- Earliest form of Hand Gun
- Detail of Balista springs
- Crossbow
- Crossbow 2
- Chinese Field piece Peiho 1860
- Catapulta.
- Cart of War
- Breech loading Gingal (Chamber out)
Breech loading Gingal (Chamber out) - Breech loading Gingal (Chamber in)
- Bow unstrung
The Scythian bow unstrung. - Bow strung
The Scythian bow strung - Bombard and Carriage
- Balista
- Balista
- Asiatic Bow
- Ancient Screw piece
- Sighting the M102 Howitzer
Sighting through the pantel, the gunner positions the aiming post by extending his left hand. - M102 Top view
Top view of M102 105 mm Howitzer attached to truck - General Information - M102 Howitzer
- M102 Howitzer
- M102 Howitzer
- 1910 New Engines
- Sidecar
- Yale 1910
- Parts of a motorbike
- Parts of a motorbike (2)
- 1910 Curtis
- LA Motordrome
- Assyrian Bas-relief
Layard's "Nineveh." Beards were curled and probably dyed and powdered, the powder, however, being gold. As a matter of fact, gold was employed in various ways as an enrichment to the hair. - A painted face
By the reign of James I. this ridiculous fashion had become common. All sorts of curious devices were made use of—spots, stars, crescents, and in one woodcut a coach and coachman with two horses and postilions appear upon the lady's forehead. The fashion continued for a long period; in fact, during the greater part of the Georgian era, when it had degenerated into mere spots or small patches. At the close of the eighteenth century it had entirely disappeared. - 15th Century headdress
From Viollet le Duc (Fifteenth Century). - Nœud Gordien
How to tie the cravat. A. The Cravat folded. B. The Cravat à la Byron. S. The Cravat Sentimentale. "The Cravat Sentimentale." - Mens Italian Hat
From Fra Angelico, Florence. - Louis XVI
Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Dauphin - Ladies Hunting hat
Orcagna, Campo Santa, Pisa. - Italian Hat
From Fra Angelico, Florence - Hunting Hat
Orcagna, Campo Santa, Pisa. - Horn Headdress
The horn-shaped head-dress appears in no pictorial documents or monuments older than the reign of Henry IV. In a volume entitled "Jougleurs et Trouvères," by M. Jubinal, is a satire on horned head-dresses, under the title of "Des Cornetes," from a MS. in the Bibliothèque Royale at Paris, of the beginning of the fourteenth century. In this poem it appears that the Bishop of Paris had preached a sermon directed against extravagance in women's dress, their horns and the bareness of their necks. "If we do not get out of the way of the women we shall be killed; for they carry horns with which to kill men."