{"id":517,"date":"2010-06-15T03:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/06\/the-wonders-of-industry-louis-figuier-1873.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T08:29:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T06:29:45","slug":"the-wonders-of-industry-louis-figuier-1873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/06\/the-wonders-of-industry-louis-figuier-1873.html","title":{"rendered":"The Wonders of Industry (1873-1877)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/the-wonders-of-industry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-2727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/the-wonders-of-industry-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"the wonders of industry\" width=\"1024\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/the-wonders-of-industry.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/the-wonders-of-industry-500x321.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Les merveilles de l&#8217;industrie, ou description des principales industries modernes&#8221;, Louis Figuier (1873-1877). The 4-volume book is in French, but the engravings are indeed wonderful: <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k246705.planchecontact.f1\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a> (750 pages), <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k24671h.planchecontact.f1\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2<\/a> (736 pages), <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k24672v.planchecontact.f1\" target=\"_blank\">Part 3<\/a> (687 pages) &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k246736.planchecontact.f1\" target=\"_blank\">Part 4<\/a> (744 pages). A sample of the illustrations of part one and four can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fdctsevilla\/sets\/72157623287149522\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fdctsevilla\/sets\/72157623975341099\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Below: salt mines in Wieliska, Poland (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fdctsevilla\/4623423583\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">extra large illustration<\/a>). Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/01\/three-thousand-pages-of-19th-century-technology.html\">Three thousand pages of 19th century technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Les merveilles de l&#8217;industrie, ou description des principales industries modernes&#8221;, Louis Figuier (1873-1877). The 4-volume book is in French, but the engravings are indeed wonderful: Part 1 (750 pages), Part 2 (736 pages), Part 3 (687 pages) &amp; Part 4 (744 pages). A sample of the illustrations of part one and four can be found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,25,237,124,90,315],"tags":[242,239,241,238,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}