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- An early 16th-Century Ship
This ship, while similar in many respects to Columbus’s Santa Maria, has made some advances over that famous vessel. The foremast is fitted to carry a topsail in addition to the large foresail shown set in this picture. On ships somewhat later than this one a small spar was sometimes erected perpendicularly at the end of the bowsprit, and a sprit topsail was set above the spritsail which is shown below the bowsprit here. - A Phœnician Bireme
Despite the fact that the Phœnicians did more with ships than any other ancient peoples before the Greeks and Romans, little is known of Phœnician ships. They developed the bireme, an oar- and sail-driven ship with two “banks” of oars, and circumnavigated Africa. - A Roman Ship
Although this ship was small the Romans built many that were not surpassed for 1,700 years, and it was not until the 19th Century was well advanced that the larger Roman ships were greatly surpassed in size. - A Viking Ship
These ships were developed by the Norse sea rovers for use in war, and as the seas they sailed were generally rough their ships had to be seaworthy. The result was a type that still leaves its mark. The seaworthy whaleboats of to-day are very similar in shape. - A Whaling Bark
With a lookout at the masthead these ships cruised all over the earth in the first half of the 19th Century. - An African Dugout
In this boat the builders have hollowed out the log but have not otherwise changed it. It is a present-day counterpart of boats known and used long before the dawn of history. - A Corvette of 1780
This ship shows the new sail plan overcoming the old. The masts carry topsails, topgallantsails, and royals, and what was formerly a lateen sail on the mizzenmast has become a spanker. Furthermore, while the ship carries jibs, she has not yet parted with her spritsails. - A Galleon of the Time of Elizabeth
The extremely high stern and the low bow shown in this drawing are about as extreme as any in use during the period when high bows and low sterns were thought to be good design. - A Greek Trireme
These warships were about 120 feet in length, and the sails and spars were taken down and sent ashore if battle was expected. The oars were operated by slaves. - A Mediterranean Galley
This ship is of the type used long after the Middle Ages. Several men pulled each oar and all the oars were in one bank. - A British East Indiaman
These merchant ships, which sailed from England to the Far East, were almost as much like warships as they were like merchantmen. They were finely built, but they took their time on their voyages out and back. - A 13th-Century English Ship
The Viking influence is still easily traceable in this ship, but the forecastle and the sterncastle have put in their appearance. Also the hull is heavier than and not so sharp as in the earlier Viking ships. - A 16th-Century Dutch Boat
It was on boats of this type that the jib seems first to have been used. To-day in Holland one sees a similar boat, called a schuyl, which is almost identical with this, except that it utilizes a curved gaff at the top of the mainsail. - A Birch-bark Canoe
In many parts of the world savage people have learned to build light frames over which they have stretched the best material available to them. The Indians of North America commonly utilize birch bark. - A Black Ball Packet
Ships of this type carried the transatlantic passengers of the early part of the 19th Century. Because of the demand of the owners of the Black Ball Line and of its competitors, America, where these lines were owned and where their ships were built, developed the designers who ultimately gave the world the clipper ships. - An Outrigger Canoe
Sometimes these canoes have an outrigger on each side, and sometimes they carry sails. - A Peruvian Balsa
These “boats” are really rafts made of reeds. - On The Banks
To sell the great quantities of fish they dragged up from the Banks or nearer home, foreign markets must needs be found. England and the European countries took but little of this sort of provender, and moreover England, France, Holland, and Portugal had their own fishing fleets on the Banks. - A Large Egyptian Ship of the 18th Dynasty
The overhanging bow and stern were common on most early Egyptian ships, and the heavy cable, stretched from one end of the hull to the other and supported on two crutches, was used to strengthen these overhanging ends. - The Santa Maria, the Niña and the Pinta
The Santa Maria, the Niña and the Pinta The most famous ships that ever sailed the seas The Niña, shown in the foreground, was the smallest of the three, but in her Columbus returned to Spain after the Santa Maria was wrecked, and the captain of the Pinta seemed tempted to prove unfaithful. - Velocipede
- A Palanquin in India
There have been various modifications of the litter, familiar examples being the funeral bier and the modern stretcher. Another development is the palanquin, a distinctive form of transport in the East. - The Man-drawn sledge
Sledges have played an important part in polar exploration, and were used,in varying degree, by Sir W.E.Parry , Sir John Franklin, and other early explorers of the Arctic. - Lawson's Bicyclette, 1879
- The famous Beeton Humber bicycle ordinary, 1884
- 'Bone-shaker' bicycle, 1869
In 1839 Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a blacksmith of Courthill, Dumfriesshire, fitted pedals and cranks to the rear wheel, but again the machine was a failure. About 1864 Pierre Lallement, of Paris, adopted a front-wheel drive by fitting cranks and pedals, and, strange to say, this ‘bone-shaker,' as it was called, became the first popular bicycle The back-bone was of solid iron, and the wooden wheels had iron tires. It was introduced into England in 1868, and large numbers were made and used. In 1869 wire-spoked wheels were introduced by E.A.Cowper, and in the following year solid rubber tyres,and ball bearings in 1878. - Johnson's Hobby Horse, 1818
Although pedal-operated carriages were known in the Middle Ages (during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many light vehicles of this type were introduced), the earliest form of the bicycle was the hobby-horse, or ‘dandy-horse' as it was sometimes called. This consisted of two wheels mounted in a kind of frame with a saddle for the rider, who was seated sufficiently low to be able to propel the vehicle forward by striking his feet on the ground. The earliest machines of this kind were in use about 1810 but their riders were so ridiculed that ' hobby horses' went out of use. In 1818 an improved form was patented by Baron von Draisin France, and brought over to England in the same year by Denis Johnson, a coachmaker of Long Acre, who called it the‘pedestrian curricle.’ It consisted of a wooden bar, or back-bone, mounted on two wheels, the front one being pivoted in a fork to allow the machine to be steered and balanced. The machine was propelled by the rider leaning his elbows on a padded support, and alternately striking the road with his feet. In this way, a speed of 10 miles an hour sometimes could be maintained on the level. Riders generally 'coasted' downhills, but when a hill had to be ascended the machine was carried on the rider's shoulders! A hobby-horse weighed about 50 pounds and cost about £10. - Mail Coaches Racing - Something Wrong with the Opposition Coach
- old times sketch
- Coach
- Racing
- Tandem
- Tandem
- The Stage Coach - Old Times
- First Copper Plate
A.Is the whole Still with all the parts put together. B. The lower furnace with a Firestone and a Grate. C. The Ashhole. D. The Fire-place. E. The Secod Furnace. F. The Balneum. G. The first Cover. H. The second Cover. I. The Body or Cucurbite. K. The Glass-head. L. A pipe or Tin to be put on the beak of the Head. M. The shutter of the Fire-place. N. The little Glass-bottle Inverted containing the Spirit. P. The Lamp made of Tin to burn with Spirit of Wine S S. The two pipes for the Weigs. - Second copper plate
An Explanation of the Second Copper-plate. A. The Furnace or Stove made of Iron. B. TheFireplace C. The Ash-hole. D. The Copper Visica or Limbeck. E. The Hcad F. The Swan-Neck made of Piuter. G. The Worm-tub. H.The Receiver. I. The Worm out of the Tub. K. Another Copper-head without a Swan-neck. L. A Sand-pan made of Iron to be put into the Stove. Q. A Matrass or Bolt-head to digest and extract Tinctures. R. A lesser Matrass to join in-to the first to makea duble vessel. T. A Body or Cuburbite made of either Tin or Copper, whichis to be put into the Visica or Limbeck to distil within Balneo some choice Cordial-waters in small quantity,when you have occasion. WW. The Pipeswith a screw to pour liquor thro' with a funnel. - Ferri's instruments
- Guy de Chauliac
- Maggi's instruments
- Maggi's instruments
- Maggi's instruments
- Guy de Chauliac's Cauteries
- Guy de Chauliac's Cauteries
- Guy de Chauliac's Instruments
- Guy de Chauliac's Instruments
- Hospital Ward of Tonnerre, France
- Bicycle Locomotive No. 2
- Bicycle Flat Car
- Bicycle Locomotive No. 1
- Bicycle Box Freight Car
- Bicycle Coal Car
- Single Bicycle Elevated Structure
- Single Electric Bicycle Structure
- Single Post, Double track, Steel Elevated Bicycle structure
- Screenshot (35767)
- Sectional View of Bicycle Motor Car
- Side view of bicycle motor wheel
- Combiined Elevated and Surface Structure
- Cross Section of Bicycle Structure and Bicycle Electric Car
- Elevated Double Track Georgia Pine Structure