Leonardo and the Engineers of the
Renaissance
The machines,
technical devices and constructions of Leonardo da
Vinci, Brunelleschi and the Sienese engineers of the
Renaissance. [Institute and Museum of History of
Science, Florence]
Leonardo da Vinci: Codex Madrid
The Codex
Madrid, lost for 250 years and found in 1965, is
here presented with commentary: Italian, German,
English texts plus fabulous images decoded and
clarified. [RWTH Aachen (2013)]
National Gallery's Dutch artists
BBC's
"Industrialisation"
see Paul Atterbury "Victorian
Technology"; Pat Hudson "Workshop
of the World"; Bruce Robinson "All
Change in the Victorian Age"
Compare Mount Holyoke
College "Images
of the Industrial Era" with
Economic History Society "The
Industrial Revolution: Britain, 1750-1830"
"From
Steelton to Mandalay"
Documents a notable
instance of American railroad hardware in imperial
India-Burma.
Library
of Congress "American Memory"
On-line documents
on (e.g.) AG Bell, American environment, 'built in
America', Westinghouse factories [1904], pioneer
trails, railroad maps, Samuel Morse, Wright
Brothers, working in Paterson NJ . . . .
Thomas
Edison papers (Rutgers Univ)
on-line searchable
documents; PDFs of Edison's 1,093 patents
Science Museum-London "Making the Modern World"