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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...

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....

A Study Guide for Conversion to Judaism
written with love to Judaism and British Homour.

Many introductions into Judaism are available, but only few teach about how to become Jewish and how to practise Judaism every day; almost none describes this from a European Progressive -Jewish perspective. This book fills this gap. It is based on materials -circulated under the title "Jewish by Choice" used in European Jewish -congregations for several years, written by a Progressive Jewish rabbi for his students. In the appendix it contains a list of possible questions...