Lombardy Gallery

Thomas horns steam engine. Built around 1850 by the Thos. H

Thomas horn's steam engine. This machine was built around 1850 by the Thos. Horn Engineer firm in London. It was used in the Paine Co. Ltd of St. Neots firm in Cambridge, where it provided mechanical energy for processing beer malt. Transform thermal energy into movement energy. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci. Italy

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Boniface III of Tuscany, Matilda of Canossa, Pietro

Boniface III of Canossa, Margrave of Tuscany (985-1052) with golden hat, chlamys and blue tunic, Matilda of Canossa, Margravine of Tuscany (1046-1115), and Pietro de Lante, Roman Senator (14th century), and Federico da Montefeltro, Lord of Urbino (1422-1482). Bonifacio Ducardi Toscana, Contessa Matilde, Pietro Lante, Ferderico Duca d'Urbino. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1837

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The ideal city of Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519). Model of 19

The ideal city of Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519). All his studies, executed between 1487-1490, are contained in a close group of folios in Manuscript B, and were used to build this model for the Ideal City in 1956, which provides an interpretation of these drawing giving them a possible shape. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

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