Skippy-Racer scooter
The Skippy-Racer scooter, circa 1933, by Harold Van Doren and John Gordon Rideout.
ZSD Nysa
The Nysa van was produced in the town of Nysa, Poland, from 1958 until 1994. Contrary to the angular Zuk van, based on the same chassis parts, the Nysa had rounded body lines, especially the two-part rounded windshield, and was considered more comfortable and a better fit for carrying persons.
Citroën H Van
The Citroën H Van was a light truck produced by the French car maker Citroën between 1947 and 1981. It was developed as a simple front wheel driven van after World War II. A total of 473,289 were produced in 34 years in factories in France and Belgium. Most of them were sold in France, Belgium and The Netherlands.
Fire whirl
A fire whirl is a rare phenomenon in which a fire, under certain conditions (depending on air temperature and currents), acquires a vertical vorticity and forms a whirl, or a tornado-like effect of a vertically oriented rotating column of air.
Shaker furniture
Shaker furniture is a distinctive style of furniture developed by the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany
World Centre of Communication
The World Centre of Communication is a project conceived by the sculptor Hendrik Christian Andersen and the architect Ernest Hébrard between 1901 and 1911. The project was presented in a volume published in 1913, titled Creation of a World Centre of Communication. The Centre has never been built: only urban projects, building drawings and a few sculptures do exist. What was the World Centre of Communication purpose? The authors aimed to gather in the Centre all the best intellectual product of mankind, both in the scientific and art field. In this ideal place, communication would have been at the service of the Good, Technological Progress and Civilisation. The Centre consisted of three areas: an Olympic Centre, an Art Centre and a Scientific Centre. The Olympic Centre would have contained a stadium, gyms, swimming pools, and at the entrance two giants statues of a man and a woman bearing a torch. The Art Centre would have housed a Temple of Art, galleries, libraries, schools, theatres, botanical gardens, and on both side two cathedrals. The Fountain of Life would have been located in the middle of the main square. The Scientific Centre, instead, would have been addressed to the Scientific Congress Building, the Temple of Religion and the Court of Justice. An imposing Tower of Progress completed the Centre with a huge transmitting antenna on its top and the Centre of World Press within, which had to broadcast the progresses of science.
Hans Poelzig
Hans Poelzig's Großes Schauspielhaus, Berlin.
Wilkin & Sons
Wilkin & Sons Limited is a manufacturer of preserves, marmalades and associated products established in Tiptree, Essex, England in 1885.
Ambergris
Ambergris is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull gray or blackish color produced in the digestive system of sperm whales. Ambergris has a peculiar sweet, earthy odor. The principal historical use of ambergris was as a fixative in perfumery, though it has now been largely displaced by synthetics.