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Science Kids: Science Images: Technology Laboratory
A large number of people can be seen hard at work in a large technology laboratory. The workers design and manufacture various technologically advanced products for use in various industries.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John W. Keely
Keely was an inventor of a motion motor and used etheric technology.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Animals of Asia, 1906
A pictorial map from 1906 illustrating the various animals that live in regions of Asia. "The white bear, the seal and many sea birds are found near the Arctic shore. In the cold parts of Siberia tribes of yellow people keep herds of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Atramentum
A term applicable to any black colouring substance, for whatever purpose it may be used, like the melan of the Greeks. There were, however, thress principal kinds of atramentum: one called librarium or scriptorium, writing-ink; another...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lectica
Lectica was a kind of couch or litter, in which persons, in a lying position, were carried from one place to another. They were used for carrying the dead as well as the living. The Greek lectica consisted of a bed or mattress, and a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pala
The spade was but little used in ancient husbandry, the ground having been broken and turned over by the plough, and also by the use of large hoes and rakes. The preceding woodcut, taken a deceased countryman with his falx and bidens,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Palium
The English cloak, though commonly adopted as the translation of these terms, conveys no accurate conception of the form, material, or use of that which they denoted. The article designated by them was always a rectangular piece of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sarcophagus of Scipio
Sarcophagus, plural Sarcophagi, is a kind of stone used among the Greeks for making coffins, and so called because it was believed to have the property of consuming the flesh of dead bodies deposited in it within a few weeks. Hence a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Drawing Asia, 1872
A chart from 1872 illustrating instructions for drawing Asia. "General instructions for drawing the continents. Make a scale by marking on a slip of paper or pasteboard the measures 1,2,3, etc., as on the sides of this map. Every measure...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Acerra
The incense-box or censer used in sacrifices. The acerra was also a small moveable alter placed before the dead, on which perfumes were burnt. The use of the accerrae at funerals was forbidden by a law of the Twelve Tables as an...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arcus
The bow used for shooting arrows, is one of the most ancient of all weapons, but is characteristic of Asia rather than of Europe. In the Roman armies it was scarcely ever employed except by auxiliaries; and these auxiliaries, called...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arcus
The bow used for shooting arrows, is one of the most ancient of all weapons, but is characteristic of Asia rather than of Europe. In the Roman armies it was scarcely ever employed except by auxiliaries; and these auxiliaries, called...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Carpentum
A cart; also a two-wheeled carriage enclosed, and with an arched or sloping cover overhead. The carpentum was used to convey the Roman matrons in the public festal processions; and, as this was a high distinction, the privilege of riding...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cestus
The thongs or bands of leather, which were tied round the hands of boxers, in order to render their blows more powerful. The cestus was used by boxers in the earliest times, and is mentioned in he Iliad; but in the heroic times it...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Clavis
A key. The key was used in very early times, and was probably introduced into Greece from Egypt; although Eustathius states, that in early times all fastenings were made by chains, and that keys were comparatively of a much later...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Clitellae
A pair of panniers, and therefore only used in the plural number. In Italy they were commonly used with mules or asses; but in other countries they were also applied to horses, of which an instance is given in the annexed woodcut from...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Episemon
Episema were used in Greece as a symbol for a country, region, or used on a shield or badge. This episemon depicts a lion's head with a fish in its mouth.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Falx
A sickle; a scythe; a pruning knife or pruning hook; a bill; a falchion; a halbert. As culter denoted a knife with one straight edge, falx signified any simpiliar instrument the single edge of which was curved. By additional epithets the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fusus
The spindle, was always, when in use, accompanied by the distaff, as an indispensable part of the same apparatus. The wool, flax, or other material, haing been prepared for spinning, was rolled into a ball, which was however,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gladiators
This illustration shows various types of gladiators, each type with with his specific weapons attributed to him. Gladiators were swordsmen whose profession was to fight for the public amusement. Gladiators are said to have been borrowed...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Halteres
Halteres were certain masses of stone or metal, which were used in the gymnastic exercises of the Greeks and Romans. Persons who practised leaping frequently performed their exercises with halteres in both hands; but they were also...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Malleus
A hammer, a mallet. In the hands of the farmer the mallet of wood served to break down the clods and to pulverize them. The butcher used it in slaying cattle, by striking the head, and we often read of it as used by the smith upon the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pallium
An outer garment. The English cloak, though commonly adopted as the translation of these terms, conveys no accurate conception of the form, material, or use of that which they denoted. The article designated by them was always a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pileus
Any piece of felt; more especially, a skull-cap of felt, a hat. These seems no reason to doubt that felting is a more ancient invention than weaving, not that both of these arts came into Europe from Asia. From the Greeks, who were...
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