Wednesday 24 January 2018 at 18:27
Bennett Gilbert peruses a sketchbook of 15th-century engineer Johannes de Fontana, a catalogue of designs for a wide-range of fantastic and often impossible inventions, including fire-breathing automatons, pulley-powered angels, and the earliest surviving drawing of a magic lantern device.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/01/24/the-dreams-of-an-inventor-in-1420/