Six drawings have been realized by French architect and artist François Dallegret when asked in 1965 by Magazine Art in America to illustrate the … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
Wheatstone Wave Machine, c. 1875, Physics Dept., Union College, NY. maker: Rudolph Koenig
In the late 1840s Charles Wheatstone developed a moving mechanical model for demonstrating wave properties of light and sound. It displayed both … [Read more...]
La città capitalista, by Giovanni Brino
An ambitious title for a 1978 obscure yet brilliantly illustrated book by italian scholar studying urban planning in UCLA Giovanni Brino. Just … [Read more...]
150 years of technological evolution from Italy
Vittorio Marchis, teacher of History of Technology and History of material culture, is the author of a book that will be published next Nov 2nd, … [Read more...]