EditorialA textbook of bacteriology : including the etiology and prevention of infective diseases and a short account of yeasts and moulds, haematoza, and psorosperms : Crookshank, Edgar March, 1858-1928.
EditorialSubcoccinella, Print, Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata (the 24-spot ladybird) is a beetle in the family Coccinellidae. It is the only member of the genus Subcoccinella. It has the typical, almost semi-spherical, ladybird shape and is patterned with...
EditorialThopha, Print, Thopha is a genus of cicada native to Australia. Five species are recognised, the double drummer (Thopha saccata), the northern double drummer (T. sessiliba), the golden drummer (T. colorata), T. emmotti and T. hutchinsoni. Within sessil...
EditorialType founders making printing type in a workshop. The caster pours hot metal into letter moulds and then throws the letters to a polisher who sits at a polishing stone. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the U...
EditorialThe Settisham Great Torc, Iron Age, around 75 BCE, detail. Made from 64 threads, eight threads twisted together to make 8 separate ropes of metal; these were twisted around each other to make the final torc. The ends of the torc were cast in moulds. Th...
EditorialThe Settisham Great Torc, Iron Age, around 75 BCE. Made from 64 threads, eight threads twisted together to make 8 separate ropes of metal; these were twisted around each other to make the final torc. The ends of the torc were cast in moulds. The torc i...
EditorialVarious cooking utensils including a rolling pin and board, pie-dishes and moulds, a pastry cutter and pastry crimper. Beeton's Every-day Cookery and Housekeeping Book, etc. pp. vii. lxiv. 404. i. Ward, Lock & Co.: London, [1877?]. Source: 7949.aa.68. ...
EditorialUtensils used in Making Pastry, including various knives, moulds and tins. The book of household management ... Entirely new edition, revised and corrected, with new coloured engravings. London : Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1892. Source: 7942.dd.9. page 77.
EditorialThe Settisham Great Torc, Iron Age, around 75 BCE. Made from 64 threads, eight threads twisted together to make 8 separate ropes of metal; these were twisted around each other to make the final torc. The ends of the torc were cast in moulds. The torc i...
EditorialIron mould for casting socketed axes. Two separate half-moulds and the core. Excavated 1953 at Hsing-Lung, Hopei, China. Warring States (5th-4th BCE). Length outer mould: 28.6 cm-core: 21.9 cm.
EditorialType founders making printing type in a workshop. The caster pours hot metal into letter moulds and then throws the letters to a polisher who sits at a polishing stone. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the U...
EditorialApparatus for restoring those drowning to life with respiration bellows, and foundry moulds for bells, letters, types, etc. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts,...
EditorialMetal casting equipment: open sand casting 1, trowel 2, ramming tool 4, lifting screw 5, sand casting between flasks 6, cog wheel casting 7-10, and moulds for loam casting 11-13. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from ...
EditorialThe Settisham Great Torc, Iron Age, around 75 BCE. Made from 64 threads, eight threads twisted together to make 8 separate ropes of metal; these were twisted around each other to make the final torc. The ends of the torc were cast in moulds. The torc i...
EditorialIron mould for casting socketed axes. Two separate half-moulds and the core. Excavated 1953 at Hsing-Lung, Hopei, China. Warring States (5th-4th BCE). Length outer mould: 28.6 cm-core: 21.9 cm.
EditorialTerracotta plaque showing a bull-man holding a post, Mesopotamian, Old Babylonian, 2.000-1.600 BCE. The relief shows a creature with head and torso of a human but lower body and legs of a bull. He may be supporting a divine emblem and this acting as a ...