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Creating a delightful dance of rising and falling mechanical “butterflies,” Butterfly Wall by Charles Sowers is an interactive kinetic sculpture controlled by ten visitor-operated hand-cranks.
This video was posted on January 28, 2017.
#charlessowers #butterflywall
Creating a delightful dance of rising and falling mechanical “butterflies,” Butterfly Wall by Charles Sowers is an interactive kinetic sculpture controlled by ten visitor-operated hand-cranks.
This video was posted on January 28, 2017.
#charlessowers #butterflywall
Creating a delightful dance of rising and falling mechanical “butterflies,” Butterfly Wall by Charles Sowers is an interactive kinetic sculpture controlled by ten visitor-operated hand-cranks.
This video was posted on January 28, 2017.
#charlessowers #butterflywall
This c. 1936 postcard features a rendering of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge superimposed on a photographic image of San Francisco.
This image was posted on January 27, 2017.
Married in 1910, Osa and Martin Johnson conducted four African safaris in the 1920s.
This image was posted on January 27, 2017.
San Francisco-based machinists and inventors Theodore Holtz and Charles Fey were important pioneers in the development of early gambling devices.
This image was posted on January 26, 2017.
#sfhistory #charlesfey #theodoreholtz
In 1949, Pan American World Airways introduced its new long-range, double-decked, transoceanic luxury airliner, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser and installed the Sleeperette seat within a convertible sleeping berth configuration.
This image was posted on January 25, 2017.
#OnThisDay in 1959, the first American Airlines 707 took off from Los Angeles to New York.
This image was posted on January 25, 2017.
This illustration is from the second part of "Oriental Scenery" by Thomas and William Daniell, published from 1795 to 1807.
This image was posted on January 24, 2017.
Aluminum made twentieth-century modern marvels such as airline travel, refrigeration, and space flight a reality.
This image was posted on January 23, 2017.
#midcentury #modern #design #peterschlumbohm








