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Adapted from the ‘Chemistry of Combustion and Illumination’ in The Chemical Atlas Designed for the Use of Students and Pupils in all Schools Where Chemistry is Taught (1854) by Edward L. Youmans. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled...
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A very different kind of colour theory, from the Theosophists. This chart showing the spiritual and mental 'meanings' of colour is adapted from Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater (1905) Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank...
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A comparison of the window tracery design of English Gothic church architecture as it developed. Adapted from the illustration in A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student, Craftsman and Amateur, Banister Fletcher (14th Edition, 1948). Printed on acid-free paper.Measures: 17 cm x...
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The perfect card for any Railway enthusiast, this illustration adapted from The Wonder Book of Railways for Boys and Girls (c.1922) demonstrates the system of lamps and discs used on the front of locomotives to identify types of train by their cargo. Printed on acid...
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This fascinating card features a selection of electrical equipment and magnetic phenomena, all related to magnetism. Adapted from a coloured engraving by J. Emslie, (1850), from the Wellcome Collection. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card image uses the Spectra of Daylight Through Coloured Glass & Vapours adapted from diagrams by William Allen Miller (1845). Miller also studied the spectrum of starlight and was one of the first scientists to determine what stars are made of. Printed on acid...
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This card shows images adapted from 1910's The Voice, An Introduction to Practical Phonology by WA Aikin. The vertical axis shows the range of a given voice type (soprano, contralto etc.), while the horizontal bars plot the prevalence of each note (C, D, E etc.) sung in...
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This card uses an Adapted image from The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain, Sixth Edition, Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1894). The map is on the front and back of the card. The back of the card includes an index of colours. Printed on...
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Cross-section of the Earth, showing the position of sedimentary and eruptive layers. Adapted from La Terre Avant le Déluge, Louis Figuier (1871). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This image is adapted from a US patent application filed in July 1897 for the first widely available typewriter, designed by Franz Wagner, that featured a ‘front strike’ of the typebars, so that the letters can be seen as they are being typed. Printed on acid...
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Adapted from Colour-Music, the Art of Mobile Colour, by A Wallace Rimington (1912). An artist and Professor of Fine Arts at Queen’s College, London, Rimington developed an organ that could project colours in harmony with music. The book from which this illustration has been taken describes...
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Adapted from a 1901 publication by The Baden Aniline and Soda Factory, or BASF, now the largest chemical company in the world, showing the effects of their commercially produced aniline dyes on cotton, silk and wool. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12...
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The US patent application, filed in July 1958, for Lego bricks. Since then, 400 billion blocks have been made! Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Alarum! At the Estampie. These Knights about Town were on the tiles when putting on your glad rags was truly heavy metal... Adapted from Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, Paul Lacroix and Ferdinand Seré, (1851). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12...
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This card uses an adapted image from The Wonders of Geology, Gideon Algernon Mantell (1839). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This image has been adapted and translated from a French Image d’Épinal print, popular in the early 19th century, where each step represents a different decade in life. Beginning in infancy through to ‘adolescence’ at 10 years and ‘maturity’ at 40 years, all the way to ‘idiocy’...
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Adapted from the wonderfully titled 1911 manual Handicraft for Handy Boys; Practical Plans for Work and Play with Many Ideas for Earning Money, this is a collection of the most common forms of joints and splices, for the engineers and woodworkers among you. Printed on acid...
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Adapted from The Dinosaurs of North America (1896), by Othniel Charles Marsh. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Libraries. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Adapted from The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are Used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners, by Oliver Byrne (1847). Byrne’s method prefigured approaches to information design, or infographics, widely used today. Courtesy of...
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Adapted from an illustration by Lewis Sculp, from Luke Howard’s On the Modifications of Clouds (1803). Howard’s work was the first to classify different cloud types. Courtesy of the Met Office Digital Library and Archive. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm...
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This card features an image that has been adapted from a drawing of lower paleolithic hand-axes, or Acheulian bifacial tools, found at Upper Boyn Hill Terrace, Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire. From the Wellcome Collection. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm...
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This card shows a visual timeline of English church architecture, as it evolved from the Norman style of the 11th century to the specifically English version of Gothic, known as Perpendicular. Adapted from the illustration in A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student,...
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This card features a colourful image adapted from The Aniline Colours of the Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik…and their Application on Wool, Cotton, Silk and other Textile Fibres (1901). The Baden Aniline and Soda Factory as it is known in English, or BASF, is now the largest...
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The US patent application, filed in August 1951, for the first commercially successful solid-bodied electric guitar - a moment that changed the sound of country, blues and rock for ever. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Illustration adapted from The Fern World by Francis George Heath (1898). Printed on acid-free paper.Measures: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This colourful card features an image adapted from The cabinet of gems; or vocabulary of precious stones, coloured and arranged according to their comparative value: together with a description of the largest known diamonds and coloured gems in the world, S Batchelor (1840). The image is...
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Adapted from The Meaning of Dreams by Isador Henry Coriat (1915), one of the first American psychoanalysts. Printed on acid-free paper.Measures: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Adapted from a page of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of 1755, in which, for the first time, as the title page describes, ‘words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers’. Compiled by Johnson alone over a...
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We're big fans of Bees here at Present Indicative HQ, so we couldn't resist this card showcasing twelve different species. Bee-autiful! Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card image uses Rose Synoptique (1890) by Charles Lacouture. Lacouture was a keen colour theorist and attempted to use three primary colours to create all hues, not by varying the tint of the inks, but by changing the density of intersecting and parallel lines. Printed...
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This gorgeous colour illustration is adapted from A.W. Faber’s 1897 stationery catalogue. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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The image is adapted from US patent application, filed in March 1977 for an improvement in the design of the compact cassette. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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The card's image is adapted from Gately’s Universal Educator (1883). The graphic continues onto the back of the card, displaying the ‘Western Hemisphere’. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Adapted from The Household Physician: a twentieth century medica. A practical description in plain language of all the diseases of men, women and children with latest discoveries in medicine and most approved methods of treatment (1905). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12...
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Adapted from a late eighteenth century line engraving. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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A fantastic card with images adapted from US patent application, filed in May 1959, for a child’s coaster - which become known as a skateboard. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card bears an iconic image: Ernö Rubik's US patent application for the Rubik's Cube in January 1975. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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James Sowerby’s A New Elucidation of Colour (1809) makes an artistic card. Sowerby’s theories of colour mixing anticipated modern printing techniques and were a significant influence on Turner (1905). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This coloured line engraving from the seventeenth century spells out ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THEE’ in the fingerspelling alphabet, part of British Sign Language. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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‘Principles of Proportion’, adapted from the illustration in to 1905 edition of Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student, Craftsman and Amateur. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card features a vintage print across both front and back of the card of the forty-one highest buildings of 1891, together with a key to names and heights. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Not everyone wants to be reminded that they're getting older, not to mention the hassle of having to organise something 'fun'. Show your sympathy with their point of view by acknowledging 'To Hell with Birthdays' ...what's in a number anyway? Adapted from a 19th-century lithograph...
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This card image uses the Trilobe Synoptique (1890) by Charles Lacouture. Lacouture was a keen colour theorist and believed primary colours generate other colours by mixing like sound waves. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Adapted from an eighteenth century coloured etching in the Wellcome Collection. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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'Every truly cultured music student knows, You must learn your scales and your arpeggios', but before do, re, mi came the Greek modes. Adapted from Encyclopaedia Londinensis (1810) you too can know your Doric from your Lydian. Also includes the Circular System for all Major and...
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An image adapted from The Marine Mammals of the North-Western Coast of North America, described and illustrated, (1874) by Charles Melville Scammon. From top to bottom: humpback, common minke (sharp-headed finner), grey and fin whales. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes...
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One of the most recognisable names in piano manufacture, this 1884 patent design was submitted by Theodore Steinway for the 'invent[ion of] certain new and useful Improvements in Piano-Fortes', the improvements related to the construction of the frame, and was granted in March 1885. Printed...
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A vivid diagram of a section though the Atlantic, from Mexico to Senegal (or "Senegambia"), via Cuba, Hispaniola and the Cape Verde Islands among others. Adapted from The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology by Matthew Maury, 1874. A double-sided card. Printed on...
