File: Villard de Honnecourt-Sketchbook-14. jpg | Sketch by Villard de Honnecourt ( c. 1230 )

The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt ( about 1230 )

Perpetuum Mobile of Villard de Honnecourt ( about 1230 ).

Villard de Honnecourt ( Wilars dehonecort, fol.

Villard tells us, with pride, that he had been in many lands ( Jai este en mlt de tieres ) and that he made a trip to Hungary where he remained many days ( maint ior ), but he does not say why he went there or who sent him.

" Villard de Honnecourt ", essay, pp. 61 – 69, in Pevsner on Art and Architecture, by Nikolaus Pevsner, ed.

* Villard de Honnecourt draws the first known image of a sawmill.

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Image: Villard de Honnecourt-Sketchbook-10. jpg | Sketches by Villard de Honnecourt, c. 1230

Cardan suspension in Villard de Honnecourt's sketchbook ( ca.

The French inventor Villard de Honnecourt depicts a set of gimbals in his famous sketchbook ( see right ).

Villard de Honnecourt, a 13th century itinerant master-builder from the Picardy in the north of France, was the first writer to use the word ogive.

Sawmills became widespread in medieval Europe again, as one was sketched by Villard de Honnecourt in c. 1250.

These operations were coordinated by Ugo Monneret de Villard.

He married his wife, Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, daughter of ambassador and author Henry Serrano Villard, in 1969, following two earlier marriages.

The famous medieval artist Villard de Honnecourt made detailed drawings of one of the towers of Laon, ca.

Most technical innovations were the work of laymen — engineers, architects ( like Villard de Honnecourt ), artisans ( like Jacopo and Giovanni di Dondi, who conceived the idea of the mechanical escapement clock )...

There has been speculation that Villard de Honnecourt invented the verge escapement in 1237 with an illustration of a strange mechanism to turn an angel statue to follow the sun with its finger, but it is now agreed that this was not an escapement.

* Villard de Honnecourt

* Villard de Honnecourt ( fl.

The use of nude models in the medieval artist's workshop is implied in the writings of Cennino Cennini, and a manuscript of Villard de Honnecourt confirms that sketching from life was an established practice in the 13th century.

The technical aspects of the windows at Reims clearly fascinated Villard de Honnecourt, who visited the construction site, probably in the 1220s, and made a detailed sketch of the various templates, using a key to show how they fitted into the different parts of the window ( the templates are in the lower half of folio 32 recto-the symbols besides the templates match similar ones on the detailed drawing of the Reims elevations on the facing page, folio 31 verso ).

The technical drawings of late medieval artist-engineers Guido da Vigevano and Villard de Honnecourt can be viewed as forerunners of later Renaissance works such as Taccola or da Vinci.

* Villard de Honnecourt

Among students of medieval architecture and engineering, such as are preserved in the notebooks of Villard de Honnecourt, Corbie is of interest as the center of renewed interest in geometry and surveying techniques, both theoretical and practical, as they had been transmitted from Euclid through the Geometria of Boethius and works by Cassiodorus ( Zenner ).

* Marie-Thérèse Zenner, " Villard de Honnecourt and Euclidian geometry "

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

This symbol for the photon probably derives from gamma rays, which were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard, named by Ernest Rutherford in 1903, and shown to be a form of electromagnetic radiation in 1914 by Rutherford and Edward Andrade.

Among the mechanical devices Villard sketched are a perpetual-motion machine, a water-driven saw, a number of automata, lifting devices, war engines ( a trebuchet ) as well as a number of anatomical and geometric sketches for portraiture and architecture.

* Oswald Garrison Villard ( 1872 – 1949 ), son of Henry Villard and grandson of William Lloyd Garrison ; one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

* Easy-to-construct " interference-reducing " antennas for shortwave portables: U. S. International Broadcasting Bureau and K3MT ( the " Villard antenna ")

Henry Villard, then president of the NP, was pushing hard for the transcontinental connection.

In the first field he was in a part of his work connected with the Hemenway Archaeological Expedition and in the second worked for Henry Villard of New York, and for the American Museum of Natural History of the same city.

In 1881, newspaperman-turned-railroad-baron Henry Villard acquired The Nation and converted it into a weekly literary supplement for his daily newspaper the New York Evening Post.

In 1881, the university was nearly closed, it was $ 8, 000 in debt before Henry Villard donated $ 7, 000 toward to help pay for the debt.

Settling in Illinois, the well-educated Hilgard became a journalist and editor, covering the Lincoln-Douglas debates, then the American Civil War for the larger New York papers, changing his name to Henry Villard along the way.

Villard, who had been building a monopoly of river and rail transportation in Oregon for several years, now launched a daring raid.

Using his European connections and a reputation for having " bested " Jay Gould in a battle for control of the Kansas Pacific years before, Villard solicited — and raised — $ 8 million from his associates.

Villard pushed hard for the completion of the Northern Pacific in 1883.

Villard was also a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League which favored independence for the territories captured in the Spanish-American War.

At late as 1979, Baco Blanc along with other hybrid grapes such as Baco Noir, Chambourcin, Plantet and Villard noir accounting for more than 10 % of all grape plantings.

Villard was a modest man and he didn't suggest a specific name for the type of radiation he had discovered.

In 1908, Villard pioneered the use of a ionization chamber for the dosimetry of ionizing radiation.

The Greinacher voltage doubler is a significant improvement over the Villard circuit for a small cost in additional components.

Du Bois joined with other black leaders and white activists, such as Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling, Henry Moskowitz, Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, and Stephen Wise to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 1909.

In 1989 in California, Del Villard was diagnosed with lung cancer and returned to the island to receive treatment for her condition.

Seattle's first attempt to build its way into the national rail network — the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad — never got out of King County, although it did make a decent profit for its investors when Henry Villard bought it out in 1883 during his brief tenure at the head of Northern Pacific.