Flame, electricity and the camera; man's progress from the first kindling of fire to the wireless telegraph and the photography of color (1900)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday & McClure co. · leaf 174
he clay model ofthe sculptor, large and irregular in its mass, for exquisiteduplication. In materials impervious to liquids, and highlyelastic, he forms a mould of a bust or a group; when ametallic deposit is secured, the mould is easily removed.( >r, he may repeat one of the steps of the… … mounts the Torre del Popolo ; as its plates are but one-fifth of an inch thick, its weight is but I 760 pounds. An-other striking example ofthe same feat is the Gut-enberg monument atFrankfort - on - the - Main,whose three life-sizedfigures, created by R.Schmidt von der Launitz,sprang not from…
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