Auguste Piccard
Auguste Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer.
Olle Eksell
Olle Eksell is a Swedish designer.
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.
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
Hans Poelzig
Hans Poelzig's Großes Schauspielhaus, Berlin.
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.
Mercedes-Benz W114
Mercedes-Benz W114 is a car designed by Paul Bracq.