This engraving shows a bunch of humans spearing a sea turtle. But wait! A manatee looks on in terror, clutching her child! And thinks back to all the different kinds of harpoons she has seen…… Read the rest “Science Art: Manière de pêcher la Tortüe; le Lamantin from Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers, Volume I (1744)”
This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of Engineering Wonders of the World, this was ripping… Read the rest “Science Art: Building the Forth Bridge, by Charles J. de Laoy, 1909”
An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger.
Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital subtraction angiography – taking an X-ray of some… Read the rest “Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon”
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later that he went after Santa Claus in his… Read the rest “Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912”
This device paraded at the inaugurations of President Grover Cleveland and the Statue of Liberty.
It also put out fires, nobly, before the turn of the last century.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Engine of the Veteran Association” from Our Firemen: A History of the New York Fire Department, 1899.”
Let us take a moment, while contemplating the sleek engineering of the quiet engine sonic inlet, to consider that tie. That man is not a model. He is, in all likelihood, an engineer. An actual… Read the rest “Science Art: Quiet Engine Sonic Inlet, NASA Glenn Research Center”
E.D. Leavitt, Massachusetts mechanical engineer, designed many huge machines in the 1870s.They moved things, macerated and mangled them, mined and melted them.… Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Pumping Engine, from Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, 1880.”
This early ’60s vision of the future (in all likelihood, right now) was painted by visual futurist Syd Mead, who worked in industrial design as well as making films… Read the rest “Science Art: From United States Steel International, a porfolio of probabilities, by Syd Mead”
Image from Wikimedia Commons.
These symbols show steps in various chemical processes – the things you can do to change substances. Well, the things chemical engineers can do, one… Read the rest “Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.”
A medieval hunt for the “brownfish, or baleen.” Centuries before we got our light and energy by burning petroleum, we got it from whales.
This illustration comes from a series… Read the rest “Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598”
The pink fairy armadillo wishes you a happy New Year.
So, I am sure, would R.P. Lesson.
A color plate from the BioDiversity Library’s edition of Our Freshwater Fish, first published in Leipzig in 1913.
Heinrich Harder, as well as illustrating natural… Read the rest “Science Art: Wels (Catfish) by Heinrich Harder, from Unsere Süßwasserfische by Dr. Emil Walter, 1913.”
This funny looking can with the tower on top was America’s first ride into space. Wasn’t very big. Didn’t have a lot of electronics. Not so many… Read the rest “Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft, by McDonnell/NASA”
This wasn’t a machine for giving new students tests. It was a machine for testing how strong materials were.
My understanding is that no new students were ever tested… Read the rest “Science Art: Testing Machine, from The New Students’ Reference Work, 1914.”
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