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When the use of electricity became generalized, Bontems offered electrical mechanisms, which had the advantage of requiring winding. However, spring-run mechanisms continued to be made. The first World War reduced business to a trickle.
Blaise Bontems (15 March 1814 Le Ménil - 1893) was a French specialist in the manufacture of automaton singing birds and the first of a dynasty of automaton manufacturers, which included his son Charles Jules and his grandson Lucien. [1] Bontems' birds were famous for the realism of their song. [2] [3] [4]
Alexandre Bontemps (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ bɔ̃tɑ̃]; 1626–1701) was the valet of King Louis XIV and a powerful figure at the court of Versailles, respected and feared for his exceptional access to the King.
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Satellite imagery such as Google Earth, Microsoft’s Bing and Nasa’s World Windhas made it possible to zoom into even the most remote corners of the globe to locate sites. By helping to spot things like settlement mounds or enclosures, it can help draw attention to places where such sites may be found. Aerial photographs have been used in this way s...
Archaeological sites often leave surface traces of what is buried beneath the soil. We have long laboured in manually mapping elusive “humps and bumps” often using hachures, a form of representation invented in 1799. Now Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technologyproduces detailed three-dimensional maps of the Earth’s surface in a fraction of th...
Archaeologists have been using drones for a number of years to capture sites from the air. Before that, we used a variety of homemade kites, helium balloons and model planes – filling the gap between aerial photographs and images taken from the top of Landrovers and shaky ladders. Drones can take photographs in low light and in frost and snow condi...
Geophysical techniques can help locate targets to investigate. Soil resitivity for example is a measure of how much the soil resists the flow of electricity. It can uncover differences in soil moisture to reveal buried structures and can reliably range up to around 1.5 metres in depth. However it is slow, as probes have to be inserted into the grou...
Traces of faeces from both humans and animals around ancient settlements can stay in the soil for millennia. It has long been known that by recording patterns of heavy metals in the soil, it may be possible to locate these ancient sites. This is especially important if there are little or no artefacts left behind. One way to carry out such measurem...
When ground penetrating radar, which uses radar pulses to image the ground, was first applied to archaeology in the early 1980s, it was believed to be the answer to many problems in archaeology. But while the technology gradually improved, archaeologists were not impressed. The early use of such radar produced sections through the deposits. However...
Nov 6, 2023 · New instruments in the Scientific Revolution meant that new things could be measured such as temperature, time, and air pressure, and that new things could be seen using the telescope and microscope. In short, these inventions vastly improved the human senses.
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Apr 2, 2021 · (c.1512–c.1570),French sculptor, who worked as an assistant to Primaticcio at Fontainebleau. His best-known work, executed in collaboration with ...
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French clavichord maker of Lyon, fl. 1506–17. We know from the archival studies of Henry Coutagne (1893
