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series, or flight, of steps between two floors. Traditionally, staircase is a term for stairs accompanied by walls, but contemporary usage includes the stairs alone.wentletrap
any marine snail of the family Epitoniidae (subclass Prosobranchia of the class Gastropoda), in which the turreted shell-consisting of whorls that form a high, conical spiral-has deeply ribbed ...
treadwheel
a penal appliance introduced in 1818 by the British engineer Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861) as a means of usefully employing convicts. Designed in some cases to handle as many as 40 convicts, the ...
piano nobile
(Italian: "noble floor"), in architecture, main floor of a Renaissance building. In the typical palazzo, or palace, erected by an Italian prince of the Renaissance, the main reception rooms were in ...
Venice
On the right-hand side of the Molo is the Doges' Palace (Palazzo Ducale), whose crenellated mass appears to float upon the waters of the lagoon. Its plan, typical of Venetian palaces, is centred on ...
Monument, The
column in the City of London, just north of London Bridge, that commemorates the Great Fire of London (1666). It was most likely designed by the physicist and architect Robert Hooke, although some ...
building construction
Elisha Graves Otis developed the first safe steam-powered roped elevators with toothed guide rails and catches in the late 1850s. The steam-powered hydraulic elevator, which was limited to buildings ...
Duchamp, Marcel
French artist who broke down the boundaries between works of art and everyday objects. After the sensation caused by "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912), he painted few other pictures. His ...
complexity
Paradoxes typically arise from false assumptions, which then lead to inconsistencies between observed and expected behaviour. Sometimes paradoxes occur in simple logical or linguistic situations, ...
Vanvitelli, Luigi
Italian architect whose enormous Royal Palace at Caserta (1752-74) was one of the last triumphs of the Italian Baroque. |
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