EditorialThe landscape painter Richard Mayhew, 99, who has an exhibition in New York and one coming this fall at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, at his home studio in Soquel, Calif. on May 9, 2023. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
EditorialThe landscape painter Richard Mayhew, 99, who has an exhibition in New York and one coming this fall at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, at his home studio in Soquel, Calif. on May 9, 2023. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
EditorialThe landscape painter Richard Mayhew, 99, who has an exhibition in New York and one coming this fall at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, at his home studio in Soquel, Calif. on May 9, 2023. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
EditorialThe landscape painter Richard Mayhew, 99, who has an exhibition in New York and one coming this fall at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, at his home studio in Soquel, Calif. on May 9, 2023. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
EditorialThe landscape painter Richard Mayhew, 99, who has an exhibition in New York and one coming this fall at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, at his home studio in Soquel, Calif. on May 9, 2023. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
EditorialCharles Waterton (1782-1865). English pioneering naturalist and traveller. He invented a new method of taxidermy. Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827). Oil on canvas (61,3 x 51,4 cm), 1824. National Portrait Gallery. London, England, United Kin...
EditorialEarly lightning rod, made with a single very long iron rod. It was invented in the year 1752 (18th century) by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Engraving, 19th century.
EditorialGlass tumbler (c 1850) -yellow mordant, white cut Abraham and the three angels: probably by Friedrich Egermann who invented the yellow mordant. From Bohemia.
EditorialReplica of the lab worktable on which the Italian chemist Giulio Natta (1903-1979) worked and invented the first synthetic plastic of second generation: the isotactic polypropylene. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. It...
EditorialThe "Fast-Sulky". New locomotion system, invented by Stillman in New Jersey (United States). Engraving. La Ilustraci?n Espa?ola y Americana, 1882.