Ideas Collection (#47)

Idea. Conceptual computer artwork of a lightbulb inside a human head, representing a person thinking

Energy saving ideas, conceptual image. Energy-saving bulb inside the silhouette of a human head. This could represent humans thinking up ways to solve environmental issues such as global warming

Nanoparticle lattice, artwork

Nanobot and nanoparticle, artwork

Quantum dots, artwork

Nanoparticles, artwork

Da Vincis notebook. Late 19th Century reproduction of a page from a notebook written by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Published circa 1894-1904

16th Century fortification, artwork
16th Century fortification. Historical artwork by the German painter ant theorist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), showing his design for fortifying a city against attack. Published in 1527

Various threads on weaving loom
Thai Dam (a ethnicgroup) weaving Luang Nam Tha Laos

Message in a bottle on a tropical beach, Kuramathi Island, Ari Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean, Asia

Bridal fashion feature in Royal Wedding Number, 1923
The fashion column of the Illustrated London News in its special Royal Wedding Number, celebrating the marriage of the Duke of York (later King George VI)

New Ideas in Travel for Holidays and Leave
Cover illustration for New Ideas in Travel for Holidays and Leave. A man stands on the deck of a ship, looking through binoculars at a yacht passing by on the sea

On The Right Line
How the inventor of the Charleston first received his inspiration for the peculiar rhythm of its intriguing movement. illustration by William Heath Robinson

Middle Eastern Dervish Group
Rifai Dervishes - a Dervish order founded by Shaykh Sayyid Ahmad ar-Rifai (1119-1182). Traditional Dervish order found with a marked prescence in Syria, Egypt, Kosovo and Albania

Lear / Nonsense / Portugal
There was a Young Lady of Portugal, whose ideas were excessively nautical; She climbed up a tree, to examine the sea, but declared she would never leave Portugal

Lear / Nonsense / Hague
There was an Old Man of the Hague, whose ideas were excessively vague; He built a balloon to examine the moon, that deluded Old Man of the Hague

Dress And Fashion Note For Skiiers, by A. E. Bestall
Fashion ideas for the first time skiier. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years

No Joke! by Frank Reynolds
A humorous artist, stumped for further jokes on the subject of the First World War, wishes that peace would be declared so he could submit some of his new ideas

Design ideas for the bedroom, 1940
Illustration showing a Dunlopillo bed-rest, which supported the users arms and back. The design was available in various colour schemes and materials

Futurist designer dress, 1913
A design by the Futurist artist, Leon Bakst, expressing the spring time of the earth, 1913. Bakst designed dresses and scenery for the Russian ballet at this time

France and Peace
Liberty encourages France to pursue peace despite the various political factions causing discontent : unfortunately Bismarck has other ideas

The Turbinia, 1898
Photograph of the experimental turbine steamer Turbinia. Built in 1894 to test C.A. Parsons ideas about turbines, Turbinia famously demonstrated her speed at the Fleet Review of 1897

Electing a President
General Cavaignac looks on with dismay, Louis Napoleon waits complacently, as France rejects monarchy in favour of a Republic. Napoleon has his own ideas about that

The public in a divorce court
Illustration by Steven Spurrier showing young women in the public gallery of a divorce court. The image accompanied an article in the ILN suggesting that divorce courts should be private

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; More wet
Illustration showing ideas for protective rain wear in the form of various rain shades and capes worn on the head and body

Pythagoras & Priests
PYTHAGORAS Greek philosopher and mathematician, sharing knowledge and ideas with the priests of Egypt

Medallion of Mesmer
Friedrich Anton (Franz) Mesmer - depicted on a medallion. Mesmer was a German physicist who explored ideas on magnetic and gravitational influences on health

Descartes and Christina
Rene Descartes explains his ideas to the scholarly queen Christina of Sweden

Splash-back column caused by a single water drop falling into water. A droplet has just broken off from water column
Michael Hutchinson / SplashdownDirect

Corona of water splash with many droplets from impact above it. Initial splash was caused by a single drop of water
Michael Hutchinson / SplashdownDirect

Water droplet above ripples and splash formation in water
Michael Hutchinson / SplashdownDirect

South West Rocks, NSW, Australia (rr)
Andrew Stewart / SpecialistStock

Splash-back column caused by a single water droplet falling into water. Another droplet is about to break off
Michael Hutchinson / SplashdownDirect

Water droplet above ripples and splash formation in water
Michael Hutchinson / SplashdownDirect

Ripples on water surface caused by water droplet falling in
Michael Hutchinson / SplashdownDirect

Erasmus / David Mortier
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Dutch humanist, whose ideas looked forward to the Enlightenment

Disraeli / Fagin / Reform
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy as Fagin demonstrates to his boy MPs how to steal ideas for reform out of the pocket of Lord John Russell

Man and Snake
A man meets a snake, and takes his axe with the intention of cutting its head off : the snake has other ideas

Peter I / Scribners 1880
PETER I the Great In 1697/8 he toured western Europe picking up ideas : here he is studying shipbuilding at Zaandam in the Netherlands

Fancy Dress Hats
These three young women model the latest ideas for what to wear for a head-dress party - very becoming tricorn hats! Made of panne velvet, with ninon veils under the chin

Fancy Dress Ideas
Fancy yourself as a Greek goddess ? an American cowgirl sporting a rifle ? a Pierrette ? a lady writer ? or just a splash of colour ?

Saint-Simoniens
Followers of Saint-Simon hope that the July Revolution will enable his socialist ideas to be put into practice : they meet to present their case but they have no success

Re-Educating Soldiers
Napoleons officers are sent to school, to be instructed in Frances new social ideas and conditions

Copernicus Explains Idea
MIKOLAI KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS) The Polish astronomer explains his ideas around a table

Future Airship Race
WILD IDEAS A race-meeting of the future : in days to come, Le Grand Prix de Paris will be run not with horses but with airships

Thought Reading
The fashionable amusement of pretending to discern ideas in other persons minds has adepts who occasionally succ- -eed in performing this feat to the wonder of spectators

Napoleon 1793 Supper
NAPOLEON in 1793 at the Supper of Beaucaire where he developed his political ideas in a conversation subsequently written up as a book

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