The Sewing Machine

A special thank to Cucitutto

Modern Inventions through Cartoons

The Flintstones: a complete series of inventions.

Donald Duck Modern Inventions



Brave Little Toaster

Pi and the Sewing Machine

The Kitchen Thinker

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat is a new book by Bee Wilson, the columnist  'The Kitchen Thinker'  for The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine.
The book tells the stories of the evolution of the kirchen tools. Now a review of the Italian translation of the book appeared on Sunday 7 in "la Stampa - Tuttolibri".

Emblems

Iconology and visual metaphors in the Baroque Age:

Andrea Alciato, Emblemata, Lione, 1548.

Paolo Giovio, Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose di Monsignor Giovio Vescovo di Nocera, et del S. Gabriel Symeoni fiorentino ; con un ragionamento di M. Lodovico Domenichi, nel medesimo soggetto ; con la tavola, Lione :  appresso Guglielmo Rouillio, 1574.

Saavedra Fajardo, Idea principis christiano-politici, centum symbolis expressa a Didaco Saavedra Faxardo ... - Bruxellae : excudebat Ioannes Mommartius, suis, et Francisci Vivieni sumptibus, 1649 (Bruxellae : typis Francisci Vivieni, typographi iurati, sub signo Boni Pastoris, 1649).

L'idea del principe politico christiano. di D. Diego Saauedra Fachardo ... Venezia, 1684.

See also the Web Site Emblematica.

Things to Eat

Chronology……

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1950

1960

For updating this chronology use the site http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/

15 Things...

For the 150th Anniversary of Unità d'Italia the Science and Technology Museum of Milan organized an Exhibition: 15 Things for 150 Years. (video)

Instruction: try to tell the story if 20th Century with 10 typical objects cennected with your themes.