Report of the ... Industrial Exposition of the Mechanics' Institute of the City of San Francisco
Author: Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: San Francisco Mechanics' Institute
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-05
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781528114325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Report of the Eleventh Industrial Exhibition Under the Auspices of the Mechanics' Institute of the City of San Francisco: Held at the Mechanics' Pavilion, Mission and Eighth Streets, From the 8th Day of August to the 6th Day of September, 1876 Feeling that holding Annual Exhibitions was a new departure, the Board determined to keep all expenses down as low as pos sible, but nevertheless to redouble their energies and make the Exhibition more than usually attractive, and no efforts were spared to this end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9780804738835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Author: Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marta Braun
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1780230001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Best known for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) was a pioneering photographer during his lifetime. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama—including a near-fatal stagecoach accident and a betrayal by his wife that ended with Muybridge being tried for the murder of her lover. Marta Braun’s revealing biography traces the sensational events of Muybridge’s life and his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, researcher, and showman. In the 1870s, Muybridge’s photography skills were enlisted by Leland Stanford, a racehorse breeder who later founded Stanford University, to prove the “unsupported motion controversy”—the theory that during a horse’s stride, there was a moment when all four of its legs left the ground. The resulting collection of motion studies, as Braun explains, inspired Muybridge to take photography beyond landscapes to the realm of science. He went on to invent the zoopraxiscope, which captures movement too quick for the human eye to record. Most importantly, simulating motion through a series of stills, his pioneering use of sequence photography served as a forerunner to the introduction of cinematography in the 1890s. This illuminating study examines a man whose influence has resounded through generations. In Eadweard Muybridge, Braun firmly establishes Muybridge’s central contributions to the history of art, science, photography, and motion pictures.
Author: Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 960
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vols. for Jan. 1896-Sept. 1930 contain a separately page section of Papers and discussions which are published later in revised form in the society's Transactions. Beginning Oct. 1930, the Proceedings are limited to technical papers and discussions, while Civil engineering contains items relating to society activities, etc.
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 878
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