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Learn about the role that patent models played in American history--and even learn to build your own replica

Patent models, working models required for US patent filings from 1790 to 1880, offer insight into--and inspiration from--a period of intense technological advancement, the Industrial Revolution. The Rothschild Patent Model Collection consists of thousands of patent models, many from the 19th century. This book features the most outstanding of these patent models, and offers deep insight into the cultural, economic, and political history of the United States.

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Learn about the role that patent models played in American history and even learn to build your own replica

Patent models, working models required for US patent filings from 1790 to 1880, offer insight into and inspiration from a period of intense technological advancement, the Industrial Revolution. The Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum collection consists of thousands of patent models, many from the 19th century. This book features the most outstanding of these patent models, and offers deep insight into the cultural, economic and political history of the United...

66 books, one incredible message

God's Word is many things--instructive, historical, poetic. Yet to Jennifer Rothschild, the Bible is also an incredible love letter. In 66 Ways God Loves You, she walks you through each of the sixty-six books of the Bible and shows, in concise and thoughtful ways, how every book reflects God's love for each of us, such as:

• In Genesis God fashions me with His hands.
• In Esther He Makes me royalty
• In Acts God's Spirit comes to live in me.
• In I Peter God gives me victory over...

Beautiful and spirited, Pannonica Rothschild, known as Nica, was born in 1913 to eccentric privilege and a storied family history. After marrying well, she settled into a French chateau to bear children and support her husband s war career. But when Nica heard Round Midnight by jazz composer Thelonious Monk, everything changed. She abandoned her marriage, found Monk in New York, and devoted herself to him and to other musicians, becoming the unsung philanthropist of the city s Jazz scene.
Hannah Rothschild has given twenty years to the quest of revealing who her great-aunt really was....