A Muse playing the Diaulos
The single flute was called monaulos, and the double one diaulos. A diaulos, which was found in a tomb at Athens, is in the British Museum. The wood of which it is made seems to be cedar, and the tubes are fifteen inches in length. Each tube has a separate mouth-piece and six finger-holes, five of which are at the upper side and one is underneath.
A Muse with a Harp, and two others with Lyres
A Muse with a Harp, and two others with Lyres. From a Greek vase in the Munich Museum The design on the Greek vase at Munich represents the nine Muses, of whom three are given in the engraving, viz., one with the harp, and two others with lyres. Some of the lyres were provided with a bridge, while others were without it. The largest was held probably on or between the knees, or were attached to the left arm by means of a band, to enable the performer to use his hands 30without impediment. The strings, made of catgut or sinew, were more usually twanged with a plektron than merely with the fingers. The plektron was a short stem of ivory or metal pointed at both ends.
Biplane
Biplane
Border
Early Victorian
Embryos of three mammals
(At three corresponding stages of development). B = Bat (Rhinolophus) G = Gibbon (Hylobates) M = Man (Homo)
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashion 1920's
Fashionable ladies - 1920's
Fashionable lady 1920's
Fashionable lady 1920's
Fashionable lady 1920's
Fashionable lady carrying a bowl of flowers
Fashon accessories
Huayra-puhura,
The Peruvians had the syrinx, which they called huayra-puhura. Some clue to the proper meaning of this name may perhaps be gathered from the word huayra, which signifies “air.” The huayra-puhura was made of cane, and also of stone. Sometimes an embroidery of needlework was attached to it as an ornament. One specimen which has been disinterred is adorned with twelve figures precisely resembling Maltese crosses. The cross is a figure which may readily be supposed to suggest itself very naturally; and it is therefore not so surprising, as it may appear at a first glance, that the American Indians used it not unfrequently in designs and sculptures before they came in contact with Christians.
Lady
Lady
Lady - 1920's
Lady with umbrella
Modern dress with Victorian Influence
Skeletons of five anthropoid apes
These skeletons of the five living genera of anthropomorpha are reduced to a common size, in order to show better the relative proportions of the various parts. The human skeleton is 1/20 th natural size, the gorilla 1/18 th, the chimpanzee 1/7 th, the orang 1/7 th, the gibbon 1/9 th. Young specimens of the chimpanzee and orang have been selected, because they approach nearer to man than the adult. No one of the living anthropoid apes is nearest to man in all respects; this cannot be said of either of the African (gorilla and chimpanzee) or the Asiatic (orang and gibbon). This anatomic fact is explained phylogenetically on the ground that none of them are direct ancestors of man; they represent divergent branches of the stem, of which man is the crown. However, the small gibbon is nearest related to the hypothetical common ancestor of all the anthropomorpha to which we give the name of Prothylobates.
Space Shuttle - component isometric
Space Shuttle - forward and Adt elevations
Space Shuttle - isometric
Space Shuttle - port elevation
Space Shuttle - starboard elevation
Space Shuttle - top plan
Standing Lady
Walking Dress
Walking Dress
Woollen Check - 1920's
Woollen Check - 1920's
Young Lady
Young lady - 1920's
Young Lady - 1920s
Young Lady - 1920s
Young Lady - 1920s