EditorialGoblet with scissors sleepers, a forester and a boy, Vaulted foot with a folded edge Trunk with a hollow, ribbed bud and a hollow, quadruped bud, both between disks. Conical cup with rounded bottom. On the chalice a scissor slept, a forester and a boy....
EditorialModel of an Oscillating Steam Engine with Adjustable Steam Valve, Moving sketch model on floorboard. The model, which is driven with a crank, shows the following components: cross section of an oscillating cylinder with piston, which drives a crankshaf...
EditorialJug with lid, with a scissor sleigh, a forester and a boy, Vaulted foot with a folded edge. Trunk with a hollow, ribbed bud and a hollow, quadruped bud, both between disks. Conical cup with rounded bottom. On the chalice a scissor slept, a forester and...
EditorialDrivers of Guild of Antwerp, Copper Medal. Front: woman with child on arm, sitting on a seat between two elongated, triangular objects within a circle. Reverse: scissor cutter between comb and elongated triangular object within wreath of leaves and flo...
EditorialGrinder trolley, Scissor grinder trolley on a small wheel, with two handles and a large wheel on the trolley. The image is marked: sword and an unknown essayeur mark, sharpening, grinding (industrial processes), Gerrit Jan Ginnink, Netherlands, c. 1822...
EditorialDrivers of Guild of Antwerp, Copper Medal with a hole in it. Front: woman with child on arm, sitting on a seat between two elongated, triangular objects within a circle. Reverse: scissor cutter between comb and elongated triangular object within wreath...
EditorialDrivers of Guild of Antwerp, Copper Medal. Front: woman with child on arm, sitting on a seat between two elongated, triangular objects within a circle. Reverse: scissor cutter between comb and elongated triangular object within wreath of leaves and flo...
EditorialBullion and ribbonworker's guild in Amsterdam, guild token by Michiel Hubert, Messing token. Front: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions above cartouche with inscription. Reverse: spool, reel, weaver spool and flat scissor with crown inside circu...
EditorialModel Demonstrating the Movement of a Steam Valve, Moving demonstrator of an expansion device. The steam chamber with five chambers is driven and controlled by a scissor movement on the crankshaft, one eccentric of the scissor movement can be set in th...
EditorialBullion and ribbonworker's guild in Amsterdam, guild token by Steven Rouson, Brass medal. Front: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions above cartouche with inscription. Reverse: spool, reel, weaver spool and flat scissor with crown inside circumfe...
EditorialSwallow-tailed Flycatcher, Scissor-tailed King Tyrant (Tyrannus fortificatus, Milvulus forficatus), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 53 (vol. 1), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of...
EditorialHylonympha macrocerca, Print, The scissor-tailed hummingbird (Hylonympha macrocerca) is a bird species in the family Trochilidae, the only member of the genus Hylonympha., 1700-1880.
EditorialTabanus, Print, Tabanus is a genus of biting horseflies of the family Tabanidae. Females have scissor-like mouthparts that aim to cut the skin. The horsefly can then lap up the blood. Horseflies of this genus are known to be potential vectors of anthra...
EditorialThe story of little suck-a-thumb. Conrad, a little boy who sucks his thumbs, has them cut off by the scissor-man, a tailor. [The English Struwwelpeter; or, Pretty stories and funny pictures for little children. After the twenty ninth edition of the cel...
EditorialScissor-tailed nightjar, Hydropsalis torquata (Scissars tailed goat-sucker, Caprimulgus psalurus). Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1828.