English cabinet-maker. Autograph Document Signed, Thos Chippendale Junr., one page, oblong quarto, June 4, 1766. A receipt for furnishings and services from Mr. Parran, made and done for Thomas Chippendale, Sr. “Feby 22 1766, To making a new Cloaths press shelf and putting edges round two other shelves and lining them with baize and baize … [ Read More ]
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Einstein, Albert
EINSTEIN PATENT FOR “A LIGHT INTENSITY SELF-ADJUSTING CAMERA” ALBERT EINSTEIN. German-born theoretical physicist; enunciated the Theory of Relativity. Document Signed, Albert Einstein, two pages, quarto, New York, December 5, 1936. Also signed by Gustav Bucky. Together with a copy of the patent. Einstein signs a patent assignment for the only U.S. patent he ever received … [ Read More ]
Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace
French physician who invented the beheading machine which was employed during the French Revolution. Document Signed, Guillotin President, as President of the Committee of Health, full page, legal folio, Paris, November 23, 1790. Concerning a request that Dr. le Doyene be given an assistant. Fine condition. Matted in tan and maroon, with a bust-length engraving … [ Read More ]
Talbot, H. F.
H. F. TALBOT. English pioneer in photography; in 1839 invented and described “photogenic drawing”, contemporaneously with the invention of the daguerreotype; process later improved and known as the calotype, or Talbotype process; discovered method of instantaneous photography [1851]; with Rawlinson and Hincks, one of the earliest to decipher cuneiform inscriptions of Nineveh. Autograph Letter Signed, … [ Read More ]