For seven decades this magazine was America’s greatest showcase for the art of illustration. The minutiae of daily life in town and country ...

Butadiene is a petroleum by-product. In the 1940s the United States War Department constructed several large butadiene plants to produce syn...

Since 1886 this funicular railway (Funicolare Lugano-Stazione FFS) has connected the city centre of Lugano with the mainline train station. ...

John Baeder’s Gas, Food and Lodging has been a favourite book since it was first published in 1982. Since 1972 Baeder has been making paint...

When dreaming up new plans for Paris, Haussmann (described by Richard Cobb as the Alsatian Attila) was especially motivated by an obsessive ...

The illustrated booklet reproduced here was produced in 1961 by Guinness for distribution to general practitioners – one in a long series ...

The slogan Good to the Last Drop has been in regular use since 1917 to promote what for many decades was America’s best-known and best-sell...