Technology by the 17th century German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher (1678). The original copy of this image can be found at the Roderic Bowen Library and Archives, University of Wales Lampeter.

The National Fairground Archive (NFA) is part of the University of Sheffield Library Special Collections. The online image database contains 1000 photographic images selected from the full database situated at the NFA at the University Library in Sheffield. This collection contains photographs on the subject of fairground machines including the big wheel and chairoplanes. This resource is the copyright of the National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield (http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/) and has been made available with their permission. Some rights reserved (see terms of licence by clicking on the CC licence logo below).