Skip to content

Detroit Industry Murales

DIEGO RIVERA DETROIT INDUSTRY MURALES 1932-33 Diego Rivera created this mural in the courtyard of the Detroit Institute of Art between 1932 and 1933.The artist spent three

The invention of photography

From the very beginning, photography showed its great potential; used in all fields, it forever changed the way we look at images and the way people perceived

The invention of the telephone

The telephone, radio and television owe their existence to the invention of the telegraph. The device capable of sending messages over long distances using signals was invented

The invention of the radio

Invented in the late nineteenth century, radio wave transmission was initially used to transmit messages over a distance (somewhat like the telephone), until the first radio stations

Hello?

Pronto, that all-Italian way of answering the phone! All over the world or almost all over the world, the answer to the phone is the same: in

The invention of the car

The Four wheels with an engine that changed the world! It took almost a century to develop a car capable of replacing the horse-drawn carriage. The first

The inventions that made the world smaller!

When time was slow and distances longer, traveling was a feat, a real act of courage. Making a journey on foot or by chariot was long, tiring

The wonder clock

If you plan to go to Prague, you cannot miss the astronomical clock in the Old Town Square. The oldest elements date back to 1410: art, technique

Mucha, a life-changing encounter

It was 1894 when Sara Bernhardt, the most famous French actress of the time, known as La Divina, met the then little-known Czech artist Alfons Mucha in