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Antique Mechanical Banks
Antique Mechanical Banks
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Practical Effects Creatures and Models Behind Famous Movies
Practical Effects Creatures and Models Behind Famous Movies
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Look closely at a shark built from the original molds, a puppet with cables in its face, or a spaceship small enough to light on a soundstage. These photos show the physical objects that gave...
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Historic Scientific Instruments You Can See in Museums
Historic Scientific Instruments You Can See in Museums
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The real hardware behind famous discoveries: telescopes, clocks, microscopes, tubes and coils that mapped the sky, kept time at sea, weighed gases and tracked particles. Each photo shows a...
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Famous Hands-On Science Museums in Photos
Famous Hands-On Science Museums in Photos
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Compare the friction of three slides, watch a small avalanche form, or step inside a model of the human heart. These photos show hands-on science museums around the world and the exhibits that...
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Famous Real Robots
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An assembly-line arm, a robot dog, and a machine that helps a surgeon work all look different for a reason. These photographs show real robots and the parts that let them move, sense, and do their...
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Classic Espresso Machines
Classic Espresso Machines
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A tall copper café machine and a compact lever model make the same drink in very different ways. These photos show how espresso machines evolved, from early steam-powered columns to the pumps and...
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Classic Typewriters
Classic Typewriters
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A red plastic portable, an office machine with a spinning type element, and an early model decorated with painted flowers show how much the typewriter changed. These photos focus on the details...
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Vintage Tin Toys and Toy Robots
Vintage Tin Toys and Toy Robots
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A wind-up car, a rocket with a printed cockpit, and a battery-powered robot can all start with the same thin sheet of metal. Look for the keys, wheels, and printed details that tell you how each...
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Famous Inventors Photographed With Their Inventions
Famous Inventors Photographed With Their Inventions
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These archival photos show inventors with the machines and objects they helped make possible. Look closely at the hardware, from the cylinders and cranks of early sound recording to the test...
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Illustrated Books That Explain How Things Work
Illustrated Books That Explain How Things Work
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These are books where the pictures do the explaining. Each one takes a machine, a building, a street's buried pipes or the inside of a cell and draws it, cuts it open or lays it out until someone...
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Historic Chess Sets in Museum Collections
Historic Chess Sets in Museum Collections
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Chess pieces have been carved from ivory, rock crystal, glazed stonepaste and plain wood, and each set shows how its makers pictured the armies on the board. This gallery follows sets and single...
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Japanese Netsuke Carvings in Close-Up
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A rat curls its tail around its body. A quail settles against a spray of millet. These close-ups show how Japanese carvers turned small clothing toggles into animals, figures, and miniature...
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Buildings Shaped Like Everyday Objects
Buildings Shaped Like Everyday Objects
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A company put its offices in a basket. A duck farmer sold poultry from inside a duck. These buildings and their facades turn shoes, instruments, books, and other familiar things into architecture...
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Statues of Famous Book Characters
Statues of Famous Book Characters
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A bronze Alice has room on her mushroom for company. Paddington carries a suitcase, and Mrs. Mallard keeps her ducklings in a tidy line. These photographs show how sculptors bring familiar book...
Books
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