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Technology, Mechanics, Inventions

"Eine Haelfte des Vermittlungsamtes I der Berliner Fernsprechanlage" (Telephone Switchboard in Berlin) Wood engraving ca 1900. Vertical centerfold. Right margin has been enforced. Original antique print , interior design, wall decoration, ideas, idea, gift ideas, present, vintage, charming, special, decoration, home interior, living room design

Technology, Telephone Switchboard

$50.00 $30.00

"Grosse Kurve der Hochbahn in New York" Xylograph made after a photograph 1904. The image is on a page of German text about this high railway and the postal and telegraph system of New York City.

Technology, City Views, New York, railway, postal, telegraph system

$25.00 $15.00

Upper image: "Nueva York (EE: UU: de la america del Norte). - El Palacio del "New York Herald". Lower image: "Grandes Talleres del "New York Herald". "La Sala de Máquinas" Machine room of the New York Herald Wood engravings made after photographs and published in a Spanish illustrated work. Dated 1895. Original antique print

City Views, USA, New York, New York Herald, machine room

$55.00 $33.00

Weather, Weatherstations, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France

Weather, Weatherstations, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France

$225.00 $135.00

Upper images: Light producing apparatus - Spermaceti Whale: preparation for "flencing". Middle image: "Harpooning the whale in the Artics Seas, for Lamp-oil and whaling harpoons" Lower images: "Viginia myrtle yielding wax, Arachis nut yielding West Indian Oil, Sesamum yielding Persian Oil" Wood engravings published ca 1880. Original antique print

Technology, Hunting, Animals, Fish, Whaling, Light producing apparatus, Harpooning

$60.00 $36.00

"Ein Wasserdreirad" (a water tricycle) Wood engraving image with German text about a water tricycle. Published ca 1880. On the reverse side is unrelated text. Original antique print

Technology, A water tricycle

$40.00 $24.00

"Peintre en Batimens" Painter on an interesting framework Copper engaving of a painter in a church using ropes and scaffolding. By Robert Benard (1734-1777) Published in "Encyclopedie" by Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783 Paris, 1751-1780) Original antique print

Professions, Inventions, Painter, Painter of buildings, Peintre en Batimens, framework

$55.00 $33.00

"Fabrication des rails, vue prise a l'ancienne forge de Creusot. (Les bandes de fer, blanches de chaleur, s'allongent en rails entre les cylindres des Laminors)" Wood engraving published ca 1880. On the reverse side is text about Creusot.

Technology, Fabrication des rails, Creusot

$40.00 $24.00

Upper image: "Retort House" Middle image: "Gas Purifiers and Condensers" Lower image: "Gasometers" The smaller images show gas meters and other instruments. Wood engravings published ca 1875. On the reverse side is unrelated text.

Genre, Retort House, Gas Purifiers, Condensers, Gasometer

$40.00 $24.00

"Elektrische Heizvorrichtungen" ( electric heaters) Wood engraving published 1897. On the reverse side is an article about moors and peat harvest.

Technology, electric heaters

$30.00 $18.00

"Drei Dampfkesel von je 1000 PS der im Bau befindlichen Dampfcentrale fuer die Oberstadt von New York" Wood engraving made from a photograph. Published 1897. On the reverse side is an article about the explosion in Reschitza in 1896.

Technology, steam boiler, for upper New York

$30.00 $18.00

"Josef Frauenhofer fuert in Muenchen sein Spektrometer vor" Wood engraving made after a painting by R. Wimmer. Published 1905.

Portraits, Professions, Technology, Frauenhofer, Spektrometer

$35.00 $21.00

"Elektrische Entladungen" Chromolithograph showing 4 kinds of electrical discharges. Description (in German) at the bottom of the page. Published 1905. A few very light spots in margins.

Technology, Electric Discharges

$35.00 $21.00

"Elektrische Versuche des Abbe Nollet in Paris zu Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts" Wood engraving published 1905. Reverse side is printed with text about electricity.

Professions, Technology, electric experiments, Abbe Nollet

$35.00 $21.00