Glass perfume bottle designed by Lalique for Coty in 1920 (Photo: Corning Museum of Glass)
The lovely glass of René Lalique
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“I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.” -Gene Tierney
More spectacular vehicles – planes, trains and automobiles – from Waldemar von Kozak here.
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Not even Edgar Franklin Wittmack’s first monowheel – see here.
Dieselpunk adventurers – among them an explorer, and and aviatrix – from illustrator Marc Scott. Pick an adventure seed, throw in a MagGuffin and you have yourself quite a story.
Included in the Redditors’ comments is the fact that three other men are also credited with the “invention” of the Periodic Table, either before Moseley or independently of him: Dmitri Mendeleev, John Newlands, and Julius Lothar Meyer.
All of them deserving a walk-on role in a Dieselpunk tale, alternate historical or otherwise.
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