The full UNM collection of NEI magazine illustrations from '60s to 90s is now available: detailed colourful schematic designs in cutaway format of intended nuclear power stations from USA + Britain (mostly).
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.
The eighteenth issue of Cabinet features a themed section on "Fictional States." Includes George Pendle on upstart countries, Tony Wood on made-up maps, and a portfolio of self-declared nations. Also carries a new column, Black Pyramid, by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Christine Wertheim on Shea Zellweger's Logic Alphabet, Jonathan Ward on corporate musicals, as well as artist projects by Sasha Chavchavadze, Craig Kalpakjian, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Patrick Pound, Invertebrate, and Glexis Novoa. Free erratum included!
With effect from the 14th of March 1992, we are annexing and occupying the following territories: 1. All border territories between all countries on earth, and all areas (up to a width of 10 nautical miles) outside all countries' territorial waters. We designate these territories our physical territory. These territories, usually called No Man's Land or Border Crossings
The vast Danish botanical work Flora Danica, begun in 1761, consists of 3,240 engravings in folio of all the wild plants that grew in the kingdom of Denmark.
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On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the world's first sustained, powered, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine, thereby realizing one of mankind's oldest and most persistent aspirations -- human flight. The Dream of Flight honors that achievement, using the Library's rarest and most significant materials to explore the notion that flight, whether fanciful or actual, has inspired and occupied a central place in most cultures.
SUSPECTING that German spies were using the big wireless tower erected at Shoreham, L. I., about twenty years ago by Nikola Tesla, the Federal Government ordered the tower destroyed and it was recently demolished with dynamite. During the past month several strangers had been seen lurking about the place.
Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer" ist die bekannte Schrift des schwedischen Chemikers Carl Wilhelm Scheele, wo er berichtet über seine Entdeckung des Grundstoffs Sauerstoff (er nannte es "Feuer Luft"). Das Manuskript war im Jahre 1775 fertig und wurde 1777 publiziert. Die elektronische Ausgabe basiert auf eine gedruckte Faksimilausgabe der Originalausgabe.