The flat curtain was 35 feet ( 11 m ) high and 60 feet ( 18 m ) wide ; the illustration was an allegory of Independence including historical figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

In the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, the Brownian ratchet or Feynman-Smoluchowski ratchet is a thought experiment about an apparent perpetual motion machine first analysed in 1912 by Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski and popularised by American Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman in a physics lecture at the California Institute of Technology on May 11, 1962, and in his text The Feynman Lectures on Physics as an illustration of the laws of thermodynamics.

An illustration for the story of Cain, from the Caedmon manuscript. MS Junius 11 ( Caedmon, Junius manuscript or Junius manuscript of Oxford ) is one of the four major codices of Old English literature.

* A Fruitful Sunday: First published in the Daily Mail on August 11, 1928 with an uncredited illustration.

Medienvertriebsgesellschaft mbH under its business manager Harald Böhm encouraged architect Krawina to legally substantiate his claim as co-creator of the “ Hundertwasser House .” On March 11, 2010, after eight years of litigation, Austria's Oberster Gerichtshof Court of Justice ruled Josef Krawina along with Friedensreich Hundertwasser, to be co-creators of the house with the effect that it is now forbidden for the Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation to disseminate any illustration or replica of the house without acknowledging Krawina as co-creator.

; Chapter 11: By way of illustration, the Other Professor recites Peter and Paul, 208 lines of verse.

In the US a condensed version of the novel appeared in the November 1959 ( Volume LXXVI, Number 11 ) issue of the Ladies Home Journal with an illustration by Joe DeMers.

Richard Bassford illustration in Vampirella 11 ( May 1971 )

After James Warren recruited Bassford for Warren Publishing in the early 1970s, beginning with an illustration in Vampirella # 11 ( May, 1971 ), he contributed to both Creepy and Eerie.

An illustration from Isidore's De Natura Rerum shows the five zones of the earth as adjacent circles.

The left illustration is for a fully translucent wafer, while the right illustration shows the half-cones formed when the bottom layer is fully opaque.

The cover illustration shows Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin.

A photograph shows the current scene ( 2003 ), below John Clerk of Eldin's illustration of 1787.

The illustration shows how a varicose vein forms in a leg.

* First image of a rotary grindstone in a European source — illustration shows crank, first known use of a crank in the West ( Utrecht Psalter, 843 )

Shortly after this comes to pass, the carnival workers run the man down, beat him, and look at the second area, which shows an illustration of the same beating they are doing.

However, the complete theory of the Abbe sine condition shows that if a lens is corrected for coma and spherical aberration, as all good photographic objectives must be, the second principal plane becomes a portion of a sphere of radius f centered about the focal point, ..." In this sense, the traditional thin-lens definition and illustration of f-number is misleading, and defining it in terms of numerical aperture may be more meaningful.

The depiction of the highlander differed over time: the illustration here is from the turn of the twentieth century and shows the full dress uniform of an officer of a British army highland regiment.

The detail ( illustration, left ), part of the basic vocabulary of trained architects from the later 18th century onwards, shows how the width of the metopes was flexible: here they bear the famous bas-relief sculptures of the battle of Lapiths and Centaurs.

The above illustration shows Darkover as the planet on the left with its four moons: Liriel, Kyrrdis, Idriel and Mormallor.

The following illustration shows the difference between a scale with linearly-increasing encoded luminance signal ( linear input ) and a scale with linearly-increasing intensity ( i. e., gamma-corrected ) scale ( linear output ).

This map illustration shows a characteristic high-pressure area centered over the Great Basin, with the clockwise anticyclone wind flow out of the high-pressure center giving rise to a Santa Ana wind event as the airmass flows through the passes and canyons of southern California, manifesting as a dry northeasterly wind.

E. H. Shepard's original illustration, from Winnie-the-Pooh, shows the " elephant " inspiration

Physically, they resemble elephants ; Shepard's illustration shows an Indian Elephant.

An illustration from 1689 in Olof Rudbeck's book Atlantica where he shows himself surrounded by Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, Apollodorus of Athens | Apollodorus, Tacitus, Odysseus, Ptolemy, Plutarch and Orpheus.

A contemporary Elizabethan illustration of Carrickfergus shows ten tower-houses, as well as terraces of single-storey houses, some detached cottages and 70 or more Irish beehive-type huts in the town.

This illustration shows two versions of the same text.

This illustration shows the present mansion as rebuilt between 1690 and 1720.

Frequently, as the illustration on the right shows, they are covered in Ericaceous shrubs rooted in the Sphagnum moss and peat.

Although the illustration shows one nozzle for simplicity, most practical cross-flow turbines have two, arranged so that the water flows do not interfere.

The hardcover dust jacket, with more of the illustration to the left, shows the entire word.

The illustration of Taylor Dayne shows a stage costume that has been heavily embellished with sequins and sparkles ; it is matched with striped tights and a cropped cardigan to create an extremely eye-catching costume.

Most people in the shelter were killed, and as the illustration shows, the list of the dead from this one incident takes up nearly three of the four panels on the memorial.

In the first edition of the Graphic newspaper that appeared in December 1869, Luke Fildes was asked to provide an illustration to accompany an article on the Houseless Poor Act, a new measure that allowed some of those people out of work shelter for a night in the casual ward of a workhouse.

Hino talked very little about himself except for the infrequent times when he used a personal illustration in connection with another subject.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

To give a schematic scenario by way of illustration: two men have clashed in the assembly about a proposal put by one of them ; it passed, and now the two of them go to court with the loser in the assembly prosecuting both the law and its proposer.

In this illustration he takes an oath before the consuls with his right hand on the town ordinances, while sitting on a pedestal.

Thus something as simple as a newspaper might be specified to six levels, as in Douglas Hofstadter's illustration of that ambiguity, with a progression from abstract to concrete in Gödel, Escher, Bach ( 1979 ):

Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

A French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball.

However, in a 1791 Japanese wood-block illustration, a specifically dream-destroying baku is depicted with an elephant ’ s head, tusks, and trunk, with horns and tiger ’ s claws.

An illustration of Bernoulli's inequality, with the graphs of and shown in red and blue respectively.

As an illustration of this problem, when official data for all the world's countries are added up, exports exceed imports by almost 1 %; it appears the world is running a positive balance of trade with itself.

He ends with an illustration about a man who dies and goes to heaven exclaiming “ Home, home at last !” as if he had arrived at the end of his eschatological journey.

* Letter of Andrea Corsali 1516-1989: with additional material (" the first description and illustration of the Southern Cross, with speculations about Australia ...") digitised by the National Library of Australia.

An illustration from an 1919 Austrian postcard showing a caricature d Judaism | Jew stabbing the German Army in the back with a dagger.

Wheeler-Nicholson's third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, eventually premiered three months late with a March 1937 cover date.

During World War II and for decades after, the phrase " Kilroy was here " with accompanying illustration was widespread throughout the world, due to its use by American troops and its filtering into American popular culture.

The 1744 version of the song was popularised in Scotland and England the following year, with the landing of Charles Edward Stuart and was published in The Gentleman's Magazine ( see illustration above ).

* Moseley's original article, with illustration

This story also is a direct illustration of one of the tenets of postmodern theory — that the sign is not the thing it signifies, nor can one claim to fully or properly describe a thing or an idea with a word or other symbol.

Simple illustration of an unspliced mRNA precursor, with two introns and three exons ( top ).

The end of his life was marked by a use of pure abstraction, during the final 4 months, as in his illustration Flooding of Sock River through Ash Grove Mo on July 4, 1914 in that drove many persons from Homes I were with the Groupe leiving their homes for safety.