Showing posts with label Images. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Images. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Roger Tory Peterson


A Field Guide to the Birds, giving field marks of all species found in eastern North America by Roger Tory Peterson, 1934










Sketching












Field Marks













Taking notes on an osprey

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Great Baltimore Fire of 1904

Before the fire:



Baltimore burns:



Fireboats in the Harbor:



Engine at Work:



The damage is done:










Note: Thanks to the Maryland and US Archives

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Dusty Naval Guys

Here they are. The men who take up my brain-space, time, and energy as I complete my book for Springer Verlag, tentatively titled, "Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky"

William Froude who championed and proved the value of scale model testing in the 1870's.



David Watson Taylor who designed and built the first model basin in the US in the early 1900's.


Alfred Thayer Mahan who made such a convincing case for the link between the strength of a navy and the prosperity of a country in 1890 that he changed the world.