Images Dated 1st February 2019

Peter the Great House at Deptford 1850

Peter the Great House at Deptford. near the docks was the seat of john Evelyn called Says or Sayes Court, where Peter the Great, Czar of Muscovy resided Sayes court was not based on a very secure footing for he tells in 1660-1 that he had repeated visits from his Majestys surveyor, to take an account of what grounds I challengd at Sayes Court. Date: 1850

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Exhibition of trained animals

Manifested in England from a very early period, for manuscripts of twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries contain numerous representations of dogs, horses, pigs, goats cocks, bears, monkeys and quadrupeds of all sorts performing. Date: Middle Ages

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HAIL-FIGHTING MACHINE

Dupuis-Delcourt proposes this device - the electro- subtracteur - which, he tells us, will prevent hailstorms by electrically subtracting ice from the stormclouds. Maybe. Date: 1850

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