RMD96MK8–Pollen mass of Orchis mascula when first attached (A) and after depression (B). From Charles Darwin 'The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects', London, 1899 (second edition)
RMEC81J4–Silver finials (decorative bells attached to the end of Torah Scrolls)
RMG1CBPA–Photographic portrait of Korean ladies attached to the court. Dated 1890
RMF7PJ0D–Two sponges attached to a piece of manganese phosphorite rock. Dated 2005
RMEC81HJ–Silver finials (decorative bells attached to the end of Torah Scrolls) c1575-1625 Dutch
RMEC81HK–Silver finials (decorative bells attached to the end of Torah Scrolls) c 1575-1625 Dutch
RM2JYYAD4–Illustration by Delon Grave; a circus master holds a chain attached to a large politician's nose.
RM2K0AM9K–The farewell team of the High School Attached to Tongji University. They were saying farewell to students going to Beijing to petition against Kuomintang's rule.
RMEC82H9–Label attached to the belongings of a Dutch Jew repatriated to Holland in the summer of 1945 after the end of World War II.
RM2JYYCDD–Coloured Illustration depicting two prisoners sitting in their striped prison outfits, attached to a ball and chain, drinking champagne in a posh hotel.
RM2JYYD31–From the magazine La Vie au Grand Air (Life in the Outdoors); Black and white photographs of early taxis showing the meter attached to the wheels of the carriage drawn by horse
RMF7PGBF–Archway attached to the Roman Baths in Bath, Somerset, England date from 60-70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years
RMEC82H5–Designed by Piet Cohen (born Amsterdam 1935) Attached to the doorposts of a 'Jewish home' is a small case containing a parchment on which biblical texts are written. It is known as a mezuzah. It is customary to touch the mezuzah when passing a doorway. Amsterdam 1993.
RMEC82H6–Designed by Piet Cohen (born Amsterdam 1935) Attached to the doorposts of a 'Jewish home' is a small case containing a parchment on which biblical texts are written. It is known as a mezuzah. It is customary to touch the mezuzah when passing a doorway. Amsterdam 1993.
RM2K0E2DT–Up to the end of 18th century, iron and wooden cages attached to the outsides of town halls and ducal palaces, to halls of justice and cathedrals and to city walls, were used to house criminals. The victims were locked into the cages and hung up. They perished of hunger and thirst, often they had been tortured and mutilated before, to make more edifying examples.
RM2A267X0–An engraving depicting a diver attached to a drilling scow putting the charges in drill holes. Cartridges of nitro-glycerine were 10 ft long and 4-5 inches in diameter. This method of demolition was used during the removal of the Hell Gate Rocks on the East River. Dated 19th century
RMHHG8R9–Mummy portrait from Fayum, painted portrait on wooden board attached to a mummy from the Coptic period. the Fayum mummy portraits were an innovation dating to the Coptic period at the time of the Roman occupation of Egypt. They date to the Roman period, from the late 1st century BCE or the early 1st century CE onwards. It is not clear when their production ended, but recent research suggests the middle of the 3rd century.
RM2K03H6M–Tang Figurine painted with marks, three legs and a rectangular platform. The head is attached to the bottom, the eyes are open, the eyes are down, the mouth is wide open, neighing, the tail is upturned, and the two hind legs stand at the front and back, powerfully. Supporting the forefoot stride, everything is in line with the dynamics of the horse's neighing, emphasizing the strength of the neigh. The horse's plasticity is extremely realistic and vivid, and it is full of energy. It is a typical work of pottery horses in the Tang Dynasty.
RM2K0AN6D–A helicopter attached to Chinese Navy ship the frigate Hengshui, prepares to land on the ship during a maritime interdiction event for Rim of the Pacific . Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and sec
RMEC7N23–The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre. couples have taken to attaching padlocks (love locks) with their first names written or engraved
RMEC7JFW–The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre. couples have taken to attaching padlocks (love locks) with their first names written or engraved
RMEC7JFX–The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre. couples have taken to attaching padlocks (love locks) with their first names written or engraved
RMD995JX–A Belgian carrier pigeon, wing extended to show code messages attached to the feathers.
RMDYEKG8–Female Faience Mask 1300 B.C. Was most likely attached to a wooden statue. Sippar
RMDYEKG9–Female Faience Mask 1350 B.C. Was most likely attached to a wooden statue. Ur
RMD98E50–Stemmed cup with two handles ('cup of Nestor') decorated with doves attached to the handles, original in gold.
RMMR5NJE–Engraving depicting a carrier pigeon with a photographic despatch attached to it's tail. Dated 19th century
RMD96FNM–Anglo-Saxon shield fittings, made of iron with silver studs (circa AD 500s). Originally attached to wooden shield board.
RMD989N3–Gold necklace, sheet metal edged with bearded wire. Rosettes with attached acorns alternate with stylised lotuses. All were perhaps originally enamelled.
RMD989N4–Gold necklace, sheet metal edged with bearded wire. Rosettes with attached acorns alternate with stylised lotuses. All were perhaps originally enamelled.
RMDYEH8T–The emperor Nicholas II of Russia, at work behind him, the officer on duty, right, the sailor Nagorny attached to Grand Duke Alexis.
RMDYEDEW–A French Colonel is seen here shaving his beard in front of a pocket mirror attached to a tree trunk. Dated 1915
RMD969EM–Man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks. Attached to stocks is the pillory post with constraints for the arms. Lithograph London 1834
RMDYEJHE–Methods of condensing the producing of distillation. Fig. 1 shows the beak of an alembic attached to a worm coiling through a tub of cold water. Engraving, London, 1810.
RMD9C62Y–Head of Demeter. Part of the himation that covered the goddess's head is preserved. Surfaces to which separately carved pieces of marble were attached as well as holes to secure a metal diadem can be seen.
RMD9C62D–Head of Demeter. Part of the himation that covered the goddess's head is preserved. Surfaces to which separately carved pieces of marble were attached as well as holes to secure a metal diadem can be seen.
RMD97230–Gold eye and mouth covers. These objects were probably placed over the shrouded faces of corpses placed in the graves and attached by a cord running through the corners. 1st century AD
RMD97234–Gold eye and mouth covers. These objects were probably placed over the shrouded faces of corpses placed in the graves and attached by a cord running through the corners. 1st century AD
RMD95HWB–A Firework display: The figure of a dragon breathing fire is attached to a rocket tied to a rope stretched between two buildings. Woodcut from 'Recreations mathematiques' by Jean Leurechon (Rouen, 1628).
RMDYETC1–World war soldiers advance through villages in the Alsace region of France 1944. Moroccan Goumiers were soldiers who served in auxiliary units attached to the French Army of Africa, between 1908 and 1956
RMD95MC8–Carrier pigeon used to carry dispatches out of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). The message was attached to the central tail feather. Other tail feathers were stamped for identification. Engraving (London, November 1870).
RMD95Y7E–English printing workshop. In right background the compositor is selecting type from a case. At left the printer's assistant holds the inking pads while, in the centre, the printer, with candle attached to his head so that he can see his work, operates the press
RMD95NP7–Canal boat for passengers and freight with framework for tarpaulin (top) and boat for freight covered with tarpaulin (bottom). Rope leading out of picture to left is attached to draught horse on canal towpath. From Robert Fulton 'A Treatise on the Improve
RMD96N82–Woman and boy drawing a corve containing 3-4 cwt of coal - Bolton, Lancashire, England. Woman wears harness round waist, passing between her legs and attached sledge by a chain. British coal industry c1848. Engraving
RMD96HNN–The Cutler. Knife blades are shaped at forge in background and sharpened on grindstone turned by wheel operated by boy on right. Handles would be attached and finished knives would be presented in fitted wooden box on table at left. Hand-coloured woodcut
RMDYETJE–The Plates from the Epitome of the De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius, (1514-1564) Plate 79 - A complete delineation of all the bones of the human body, as well as the positions of their joints, freed from all parts which they support and whatever is attached to them or extends from them.
RMD98AMN–Anthony Ashley Cooper, lst Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683). In English Civil Wars was at first a Royalist but in 1644 attached himself to the Parliamentarians. In 1660, one of the 12 commissioners sent to France to Charles II to invite him to return to England.
RMD972MX–Bronze shield. Late Bronze Age, about 1200-900 BC. Rhyd-y-Gorse, Dyed, Wales. This shield was beaten from single plate of bronze and has a handle on the back attached with rivets. This type of shield was parade armour only, as it would have been useless in combat.
RMD964RJ–Symbols of the synthesis of the Great Work. 4 sides=4 elements. 3 serpents=tria prima (sulphur, salt, mercury). 2 circles=masculine and feminine properties. Large circle attached to tube=Hermetic Vase. From 'Tripus Aureus' Michael Maier (Frankfurt 1678).
RMDYETH2–The Plates from the Second Book of the De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius, (1514-1564) Plates 39 - The figure here placed to one side represents the entire femur, tibia and fibula to which still remains attached those ligaments which serve for the comprehension of the context of the first chapter.
RMD95KBW–Draining a mine by means of a suction pump. The man in the top right of the picture is operating the piston of the pump by raising and lowering the opposite end of the beam to which the piston rod is attached. From 'De re metallica', by Agricola, pseudonym of Georg Bauer (Basle, 1556). Woodcut.
RMD96JPJ–Tring cutting - 17 June 1837. Engineer Robert.. Stephenson. From J.Bourne 'Drawings of the London Railway', London 1839. Navvies excavating cutting: wheelbarrows filled at bottom, line attached to wheel, and then winched to top along narrow plank with labourer behind guiding.
RMD98BCB–Girl with a Red Balloon', oil on oilcloth. Niko Pirosami (1862-1918) Georgian Primitive painter. Small girl in blue dress with wide red sash, holding net in one hand and string attached to a red balloon in the other.
RMD96K99–Phonautograph (c 1857) apparatus for studying sound vibrations graphically, invented by (Edouard) Leon Scott de Martinville. Plaster of Paris barrel with brass tube at a with hog's bristle attached to trace vibrations produced in AB on lampblacked cylinder C. Engraving 1906.
RMDYETFR–The Plates from the First Book of the De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius, (1514-1564) - Plate 4 The attached figure delineates several of the bones for the sole purpose of representing, at lease in some of the bony parts and regions the names of which the author will consider in this chapter.
RMRJAE5B–19th-century illustration showing Michaux-Perreaux's, steam velocipede; a steam-powered velocipede made in France sometime from 1867 to 1871, when a small Louis-Guillaume Perreaux commercial steam engine was attached to a Pierre Michaux manufactured iron framed pedal bicycle
RMD9898B–The Charter - a Common Scene': The Anti-Chartist idea of the House of Commons in 1943 if suffrage was enlarged. Cap of Liberty is attached to Speaker's chair. 1843 cartoon by George Cruikshank. Chartism, a movement for social and political reform took its name from The People's Charter of 1838.
RMRJN1DA–Illustration showing dipping TALLOW candles. A frame of broaches containing wicks is attached to a NODDING DONKEY - a balance shaped beam suspended from the ceiling with a pan containing counterbalance weights at one end. The weights in the pan determined the size of the candles being dipped. 1866
RMD96C5N–Air Raid Precautions: Set of 50 cards issued by WD & H0 Wills, Britain 1938, in preparation for the anticipated coming of World War II. Light Trailer Fire Pump which could be attached to private cars and light commercial vehicles and used to augment the official Fire Brigade.
RMD96C2E–Treasure of Tutankhamun (dc1340 BC): Pectoral jewel of gold, semi-precious stone and faience showing Horus, falcon-headed god crowned with sun disc with ankh, symbol of life, attached to each claw. Once great sky and sun-god, became combined with Horus the son of Isis and Osiris. Cairo Museum, Egypt
RMD971F6–Lidded box of network mosaic glass, knob of lid missing. Made in the eastern Mediterranean, about 150-50 BC From Crete The box and lid are built up of canes of colourless glass twisted with two trails of opaque white and are shaped by the slumping process. The twisted canes of blue and white were attached at different stages.
RMD971F8–Lidded box of network mosaic glass, knob of lid missing. Made in the eastern Mediterranean, about 150-50 BC From Crete The box and lid are built up of canes of colourless glass twisted with two trails of opaque white and are shaped by the slumping process. The twisted canes of blue and white were attached at different stages.
RMD971F7–Lidded box of network mosaic glass, knob of lid missing. Made in the eastern Mediterranean, about 150-50 BC From Crete The box and lid are built up of canes of colourless glass twisted with two trails of opaque white and are shaped by the slumping process. The twisted canes of blue and white were attached at different stages.
RMD98GAA–A youth with his horse and dog. Roman, about AD125. Found at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli. This youth once controlled his spirited horse with a metal bridle attached to the hole in the marble at its muzzle. The relief is a Roman creation, designed to decorate a wall of Hadrian's Villa. It was influenced by Classical Greek models, such as the Parthenon frieze.
RMD98GAD–A youth with his horse and dog. Roman, about AD125. Found at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli. This youth once controlled his spirited horse with a metal bridle attached to the hole in the marble at its muzzle. The relief is a Roman creation, designed to decorate a wall of Hadrian's Villa. It was influenced by Classical Greek models, such as the Parthenon frieze.
RMD98GA7–A youth with his horse and dog. Roman, about AD125. Found at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli. This youth once controlled his spirited horse with a metal bridle attached to the hole in the marble at its muzzle. The relief is a Roman creation, designed to decorate a wall of Hadrian's Villa. It was influenced by Classical Greek models, such as the Parthenon frieze.
RMDYF1RE–Children on a runaway cart by Archibald Willard, 1836-1918, artist. Published by J.F. Ryder, c1873. shows a small wagon attached to a dog that is chasing a rabbit; two children are in the wagon, a third has been bounced out as the driver tries to regain control of the dog.
RMG2NJTK–Miniature of a hosting system. A hosting system consisted of cranes attached to great wheels worked either like a capstan or like a treadmill. The miniature depicts the treadmill type, masons laying chequered masonry and a man carrying the motor up a ladder. Dated 13th Century
RMG2NJB5–Miniature of a hosting system. A hosting system consisted of cranes attached to great wheels worked either like a capstan or like a treadmill. The miniature depicts the treadmill type, masons laying chequered masonry and a man carrying the mortar up a ladder. Dated 13th Century
RMD971JD–A youth with his horse and dog Roman, about AD 125 Found at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli This youth once controlled his spirited horse with a metal bridle attached to the hole in the marble at its muzzle. The relief is a Roman creation, designed to decorate a wall of Hadrian's Villa. It was influenced by Classical Greek models, such as the Parthenon Frieze.
RMD95KHT–Demonstrating the strength of a vacuum. Vessel from which air has been evacuated mounted in frame. A rope attached is passed over two pulley wheels. On a wooden platform hung from the end of the rope weights were added until the vacuum was overpowered. From 'Experimental Nova' by Otto von Guericke (Amsterdam, 1672). Engraving.
RMD96C5T–Air Raid Precautions: Set of 50 cards issued by WD & H0 Wills, Britain 1938, in preparation for the anticipated coming of World War II. Medium trailer fire pump which could be attached to private cars or light commercial vehicles to augment the official fire services Here in action fighting a factory fire.
RMD96C5W–Air Raid Precautions: Set of 50 cards issued by WD & H0 Wills, Britain 1938, in preparation for the anticipated coming of World War II. Heavy duty emergency fire pump unit with telescopic ladder attached. Designed by Home Office, could delivery in excess of 1,000 gallons a minute.
RMD95M2B–Miners in Chihuahua, Mexico, ascending a mineshaft by means of crude steps carrying candles attached to sticks to light their way. Descending and ascending such shafts was a daily hazard. The state of Chihuahua has been a source of silver, gold and mercury for many centuries. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.
RMD98964–Plaque showing the facade of the royal palace. Plaques may be seen attached to the pillars that support the palace roof. They appear to have been made in matching pairs and are shown in such detail that some actual plaques can be readily identified. Behind the main figures are two brass leopards and the stone axe heads that are kept on altars. Attached to the roof of the tower is a large brass python.
RMD98969–Plaque showing the facade of the royal palace. Plaques may be seen attached to the pillars that support the palace roof. They appear to have been made in matching pairs and are shown in such detail that some actual plaques can be readily identified. Behind the main figures are two brass leopards and the stone axe heads that are kept on altars. Attached to the roof of the tower is a large brass python.
RMD98960–Plaque showing the facade of the royal palace. Plaques may be seen attached to the pillars that support the palace roof. They appear to have been made in matching pairs and are shown in such detail that some actual plaques can be readily identified. Behind the main figures are two brass leopards and the stone axe heads that are kept on altars. Attached to the roof of the tower is a large brass python.
RMD9896A–Plaque showing the facade of the royal palace. Plaques may be seen attached to the pillars that support the palace roof. They appear to have been made in matching pairs and are shown in such detail that some actual plaques can be readily identified. Behind the main figures are two brass leopards and the stone axe heads that are kept on altars. Attached to the roof of the tower is a large brass python.
RMD9895T–Plaque showing the facade of the royal palace. Plaques may be seen attached to the pillars that support the palace roof. They appear to have been made in matching pairs and are shown in such detail that some actual plaques can be readily identified. Behind the main figures are two brass leopards and the stone axe heads that are kept on altars. Attached to the roof of the tower is a large brass python.
RMD9896C–Plaque showing the facade of the royal palace. Plaques may be seen attached to the pillars that support the palace roof. They appear to have been made in matching pairs and are shown in such detail that some actual plaques can be readily identified. Behind the main figures are two brass leopards and the stone axe heads that are kept on altars. Attached to the roof of the tower is a large brass python.
RMD95M76–Static electric effects. Chain receiving a charge from a glass globe static electric machine is attached to the waist of the man standing insulated on a block of wax. He becomes 'charged' and his hands attract pieces of paper and small objects. From 'Recherches sur les Causes Particulaires des Phenomenes Electriques' by Abbe Nollet (Paris, 1753). Engraving.
RMD96NFJ–Franklin's kite experiment, c1752. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American scientist, statesman, diplomat, author, printer and publisher, flying a kite in a thunderstorm and about to draw a spark from a metal key attached to the kite string, proving the electrical nature of thunderstorms. From 'Annals of Industry and Genius', CL Brightwell, (London, 1869). Wood engraving.
RMD98EDB–Attalos I as king. From acropolis of Pergamon c 230-198 BC. The second cast of the same portrait has an added 'wreath' of hair attached later to the head in separately made pieces. It includes a plain flat headband - the royal diadem. This painstaking adjustment was made after Attalos assumed the title of king in 230BC. Both diadem and full hair express royal status.
RMD95M4W–Coal miners, carrying their safety lamps, being lowered down the pit shaft on a chain with stirrups attached. The man the bottom has lost his grip and is in danger of plunging to his death. By the middle of the 19th century this method of descending mines was abandoned except in a few very shallow pits From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.
RMD96W37–James Prescott Joule's (1818-89) apparatus for determining mechanical equivalent of heat. Vessel of water, oil or mercury contains vanes attached to spindle. Cord attached to drums wound round spindle. Weight descending against scale rotates vanes. Raising and lowering weights raises temperature of fluid. From rise in temperature and distance travelled energy used can be calculated. Engraving 1881.
RMD96W35–James Prescott Joule's (1818-89) apparatus for determining mechanical equivalent of heat. Vessel of water, oil or mercury encloses vanes attached to spindle. Cord wound round cylinder and drum. Weight descending against scale rotates spindle and vanes. Raising and lowering weight raises temperature of fluid. From rise in temperature and distance travelled energy used can be calculated. Engraving 1872.
RMD96RTX–French postal service. Sorting letters on the Paris-Marseilles express by the light of oil lamps. The expansion of the railway network in the nineteenth century greatly improved mail services. Dedicated overnight mail trains, or mail carriages attached to scheduled trains, enabled mail to be sorted en route to a distribution centre. Engraving from 'Le Journal de la Jeunesse' (Paris, 1886).
RMDYER81–Wall Street cleaner by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894, artist. Published 1884. Illustration shows a woman labelled 'Legitimate Business' cracking a whip that spells 'Crash', driving a two-wheeled cart drawn by two horses with a large brush labelled 'No Over-Certification Clearing House' attached, sweeping Wall Street clean of men labelled 'Stock Jobber' and 'Stock Gambler'.
RMRJAEBY–19th century illustration of a windlass for raising weights. A crank handle turns a shaft carrying a screw which links a toothed wheel to a drum. The windlass is an apparatus for moving heavy loads. Typically, a windlass consists of a horizontal cylinder (barrel), which is rotated by the turn of a crank or belt. A winch is affixed to one or both ends, and a cable or rope is wound around the winch, pulling a weight attached to the opposite end
RMDYEN6T–Symbolical centenary chart of American history by the Brett Lithographing Company. 1874. Print shows a large chart comprised of 64 symbols representing events in American history, presented chronologically from 1492 to 1872, and 35 portraits of explorers, presidents, legislators, poets, journalists, generals, and other notable figures; includes a key (attached to bottom of chart) which explains each symbol and identifies the people in the portraits and provides notable facts about their lives.
RMD95W7H–The miller Samuel Wood, whose arm and scapula were torn off when entangled in a rope attached to the moving mill machinery (1737). There was very little bleeding, and the amount of skin left was enough to cover the wound. A superficial dressing was applied and healing took place without complications. The author advises always leaving a similar area of skin when performng an amputation. From 'The Anatomy of the Human Body' by William Cheselden (London, c1745). First edition published 1713. Engraving.
RMD95KFE–Mine ventilation. Hollow wooden drum, top, which had two blowholes opposite each other on the circumference, C, one to suck in air and one to expel it as the drum rotated. Inside the drum, fixed to axle on which it rotated, were fans made of wood or of wood and goose quills. HHHH are rods attached to the axle and which acted as a flywheel. Hollow box, bottom, similar to the drum above, but not considered to be as efficient. From 'De re metallica', by Agricola, pseudonym of Georg Bauer (Basle, 1556). Woodcut.
RMDYEAGA–The Threatened Swan by Jan Asselijn (1610-1652) oil on canvas, c 1650. A swan fiercely defends its nest against a dog. In later centuries this scuffle was interpreted as a political allegory: the white swan was thought to symbolize the Dutch statesman Johan de Witt (assassinated in 1672) protecting the country from its enemies. This was the meaning attached to the painting when it became the very first acquisition to enter the Nationale Kunstgalerij (the forerunner of the Rijksmuseum) in 1880.
RMD95WGP–Experiment with static electricity by Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770) French physicist and cleric. A gun barrel is suspended over the globe of an electrostaticc machine, a chain hanging from it touching the globe. The man standing on a block of rosin and holding a chain attached to the barrel will feel nothing but a second person, left, can draw sparks off him. Engraving from 'The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences' edited by TH Croker, Thomas Williams and Samuel Clark. (London, 1764).
RMD9C5KD–In the centre of the scene is the herald who raises his right arm to announce the start of the procession. In his left hand he holds a caduceus or salpinx (trumpet), a metal object that was attached to holes in the marble. To the left, a horseman stands by his horse and to the right is a groom with his master's himation (cloak) over his shoulder. The unbridled horse with its long carefully tended mane lowers its head to rub its muzzle against its front leg, in a scene that is new in ancient Greek art.
RMD9C5M0–In the centre of the scene is the herald who raises his right arm to announce the start of the procession. In his left hand he holds a caduceus or salpinx (trumpet), a metal object that was attached to holes in the marble. To the left, a horseman stands by his horse and to the right is a groom with his master's himation (cloak) over his shoulder. The unbridled horse with its long carefully tended mane lowers its head to rub its muzzle against its front leg, in a scene that is new in ancient Greek art.
RMD95WMR–Investigating atmospheric electricity in normal cloudy conditions, but not during a thunderstorm. GF: windlass for raising and lowering a kite. AB: wooden frame supported by mahogony legs with glass cones covered with brass funnels to prevent glass getting wet. H: drawing spark from conductor and experiencing shock similar in strength to that from a fully charged Leyden jar. Leyden jar was attached to conductor, but it was not fully charged. Engraving from 'Practical Electricity and Galvanism' by John Cuthbertson (London, 1807).
RMD95WGF–Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) Dutch naturalist. Swammerdam's observations on the contraction of muscle. V: Dissected muscle with nerve attached (nerve-muscle preparation). VI: Nerve-muscle preparation in glass tube, tendons attached to pins. When nerve pinched, the muscle contracts and fills VIII: Nerve-muscle preparation in glass tube, one end closed with a cork, the other having narrow tube with water droplet at e. Nerve pulled by thread c. IX: Similar to VIII. Engraving from 'Biblia Naturae' by Jan Swammerdam (1737-1738).
RMHHECN3–Ladies of fashion promenading with lightning conductors attached to their hats - Paris, circa 1778
RMHHG6HN–Morse printing telegraph, showing transmitting key and roll of paper attached to the receiving instrument.
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