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When you say “bug” to entomologists, they assume you mean a true bug—an insect in the order Hemiptera.
This image was posted on July 22, 2019.
#intriguinginsects #worldofinsects #insects #entomology #berkeley #ucberkeley #truebugs #bugs #hemiptera #museum
One of the first uses of aluminum helicopter rotor blades was in the Hiller XH-44 “Hiller-copter”, designed and built by Stanley Hiller, Jr. (1924–2006) in 1944 at the age of nineteen.
This image was posted on July 21, 2019.
#aviationaluminum #aluminum #design #industrialdesign #avgeek #hillercopter #helicopter #museum
NOW PLAYING: Experimental animator Emily Scaife imagines the sensations of attraction and pleasure in insects, and the seduction methods of the plants and fungi that beckon them in Attraction, her graduate film for London’s Royal College of Art.
This video was posted on July 19, 2019.
#videoartssfom #film #video #illustration #animation #experimental #emilyscaife #london #royalcollegeofart
NOW PLAYING: Experimental animator Emily Scaife imagines the sensations of attraction and pleasure in insects, and the seduction methods of the plants and fungi that beckon them in Attraction, her graduate film for London’s Royal College of Art.
This video was posted on July 19, 2019.
#videoartssfom #film #video #illustration #animation #experimental #emilyscaife #london #royalcollegeofart
NOW PLAYING: Experimental animator Emily Scaife imagines the sensations of attraction and pleasure in insects, and the seduction methods of the plants and fungi that beckon them in Attraction, her graduate film for London’s Royal College of Art.
This video was posted on July 19, 2019.
#videoartssfom #film #video #illustration #animation #experimental #emilyscaife #london #royalcollegeofart
Before the AirTrain was completed in 2003, passengers were shuttled around SFO in buses.
This image was posted on July 18, 2019.
#sfohistory #tbt #throwback #bus #buses #museum
The house fly (Musca domestica), well known throughout the world, was named by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 as part of his Systema Naturae series of publications.
This image was posted on July 18, 2019.
#intriguinginsects #worldofinsects #insects #entomology #berkeley #ucberkeley #flies #fly #housefly
Developed and produced by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. of Great Britain, the Viscount was the world’s first turboprop airliner to go into service.
This image was posted on July 16, 2019.
#aviationaluminum #aluminum #design #industrialdesign #avgeek #vickers #viscount #vickersviscount #modelplane #aircraftmodel #museum
Developed and produced by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. of Great Britain, the Viscount was the world’s first turboprop airliner to go into service.
This image was posted on July 16, 2019.
#aviationaluminum #aluminum #design #industrialdesign #avgeek #vickers #viscount #vickersviscount #modelplane #aircraftmodel #museum
Developed and produced by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. of Great Britain, the Viscount was the world’s first turboprop airliner to go into service.
This image was posted on July 16, 2019.
#aviationaluminum #aluminum #design #industrialdesign #avgeek #vickers #viscount #vickersviscount #modelplane #aircraftmodel #museum
The first Western Air Express flight departed on April 17, 1926, with an airmail flight from LA to Salt Lake City in a Douglas M-2 mailplane.
This image was posted on July 15, 2019.
#westernairexpress #westernairlines #deltaairlines #avgeek #routemap #map








