dc.creator | Sly, Stephen | en_US |
dc.date | 1843 March 11 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-28T16:34:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-28T16:34:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1843 | en_US |
dc.identifier | VBI_000514 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/193488 | |
dc.description | Page from The Illustrated London News with a letter to the editor describing a sea-parachute, or life-umbrella designed to save people from drowning in shipwrecks. An accompanying illustration shows a man leaving the scene of a shipwreck using the device. | en_US |
dc.description | For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/780 | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.rights | No Copyright - United States | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Shipwrecks in art | en_US |
dc.subject | Inventions | en_US |
dc.subject | Parachutes | en_US |
dc.subject | The Illustrated London News | en_US |
dc.title | The Illustrated London News, Saturday, March 11, 1843 | en_US |
dc.type | Text | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections | en_US |
dc.type.genre | clippings (information artifacts) | |
dc.contributor.display | artist: Sly, Stephen | en_US |