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The spinnerets of an Australian garden orb weaver spider. Black spinneret of Phidippus adumbratus visible below red abdomen. A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect.
The spinet was later developed into the spinettone ("big spinet") by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), the inventor of the piano. The spinettone incorporated multiple choirs of strings, with a disposition of 1 × 8 ft, 1 × 4 ft, and used the same ingenious mechanism for changing stops that Cristofori had earlier used for his oval spinet .
A spinet desk is an antique desk with an exterior shape similar to a writing table, but slightly higher and is fitted with a single drawer under the whole length of the flat top surface. The spinet desk is so named because when closed it resembles a spinet, a musical instrument of the harpsichord family. This single drawer, however, is a dummy.
Princeton Architectural Press (now PA Press) is a division of Chronicle Books. [2]Founded by Kevin Lippert [3] in 1981 in Princeton, NJ, PA Press has been a leading publisher of books on architecture, design, and visual culture for over forty years, making its reputation by identifying new trends and publishing first books on emerging talents, as well as definitive works on established names ...
The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of eight buildings across the United States designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These sites demonstrate his philosophy of organic architecture , designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment.
Eiffel Tower (photographer Anthony Ludwar) Architecture has been closely associated with engineering in the history of the building construction.The engineering for buildings was determined empirically in the early periods; later, scientific calculations for structures were developed in the 17th century, and engineering was taught as a separate course in the 18th century.
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