List of figures
Fig. 1.1 Linné’s classification of the animal kingdom, 1735 (excerpt)
Fig. 3.1 Retired overseas containers, reused to house workshops and storage in Kyrgyzstan
Fig. 4.1 Berengario da Carpi, Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei a Carpo editus (1518)
Fig. 4.2 Berengario da Carpi, Isagoge breves (1523)
Fig. 4.3 Joannes de Ketham Fasciculus medicine (1495)
Fig. 5.1 ‘Better Shelter’ refugee housing unit
Fig. 5.2 Interior image of a Better Shelter prototype
Fig. 5.3 Paul Lester Wiener’s design for portable and modular temporary housing
Fig. 5.4 Earthquake tents from after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906
Fig. 5.5 Earthquake cottages provided for some victims of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco
Fig. 5.6 Earthquake cottage being moved by horses
Fig. 5.7 Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya
Fig. 6.1 Microscopic slide box from the collection of German pathologist Karl Lennert
Fig. 6.2 Same slide box as above, detail
Fig. 6.3 Filing cards, Lennert Collection
Fig. 7.2 Boxes waiting in factory
Fig. 7.3 Boxes waiting in museum
Fig. 8.1 The Augsburg Art Cabinet, Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala, Sweden
Fig. 8.3 The front side of the cabinet
Fig. 8.4 Miniature book, UUK 212
Fig. 9.1 Tartölten in their case, SAM 208 – SAM 212
Fig. 9.2 The case for the violin made of tortoise shell, SAM 638
Fig. 9.3 The spinettino in its box, SAM 121
Fig. 9.4 The case for four recorders signed with ‘!!’ SAM 171
Fig. 10.1 Disposable straw cage (without cricket)
Fig. 10.2 Force-grown gourd container with wooden lid
Fig. 10.3 Round box cricket container made from grey clay, with lid
Fig. 11.1 The Marischal College and Marischal Museum, Aberdeen
Fig. 11.2 Poster for ‘Going Home’ exhibition in Marischal Museum 2003–2004
Fig. 11.3 Photograph of repatriation ceremony in Marischal Museum, 2003
Fig. 12.1 Cigarette packs used for storage in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Fig. 13.1 Dandanah, The Fairy Palace
Fig. 14.2 Kircher’s ark, floor plan
Fig. 14.3 Model of a cargo plane in the entrance to Frankfurt Airport’s Animal Lounge
Figs. 14.4a, 14.4b Salvation of swallows in ‘Aktion Südflug’
Fig. 14.5 Animal Lounge, Frankfurt Airport
Fig. 14.6 Transportation of a killer whale
Fig. 14.7 Container requirement 55, for dolphin and whale species
Fig. 15.1 A wooden box from the Natural History Museum – Archives of Life, Basel, Switzerland
Fig. 15.3 Menus for ‘After Hours Summer Edition, Chillen im Museum’, 11 September 2014
Fig. 16.2 ‘Plane arrives in Port Vila with aid packages’
Fig. 17.1 First prize medicine cabinet designed by S. C. Carpenter in Cleveland, Ohio
Fig. 18.1 The Green Minna in front of a police station
Fig. 18.2 Unloading the Green Minna in the courtyard of the Central Police Station
Fig. 19.1 50kl stirred aerated fermenter
Fig. 19.2a Rotary drum fermenter
Fig. 19.2b Laboratory-scale fermentation apparatus
Fig. 19.2c Large-scale fermentation apparatus
Fig. 19.3a Aerating system of the perforated tube type for a huge propagating tub
Fig. 19.3c Network of perforated tubes
Fig. 19.4 Agitator wing designs
Fig. 20.1 元末明初的黑漆书箱 Black shellac lacquer book-box from the late Yuan/early Ming Dynasty
Fig. 20.3 ‘Transfer between Boxes’
Fig. 20.5 ‘Scenes in “the Black”’
Fig. 22.1 Haberling Sicherheitsbehälter at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Fig. 22.2 Paper shredder at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Fig. 22.3 Hama paper shredder (designed for home use)
Fig. 22.4 The paper shredder’s metal ‘teeth’, spinning shaft, and paper fragments produced
Fig. 22.6 Adolf Ehinger’s ‘diagrammatic top-plan view of a shredder’
Fig. 23.2 Biobank tanks in their habitat
Fig. 23.3 Epidemiological box-apparatus: the 2 x 2 contingency table
Fig. 23.4 A hydraulic model of population
Fig. 24.2 What a data centre looks like
Figs. 25.1, 25.1b Mirror perspective. Pictures and details of water dispensers
Fig. 25.2 Flow chart: material paths of drinking water in Taiwanese households
Fig. 25.3 Flow chart: material path and appliances of ‘warm’ drinking water in Taiwanese households
Fig. 25.4a Jio’s water dispenser
Fig. 25.4b Wu’s water dispenser
Fig. 26.1 General civilian anti-gas respirator carrying case with British civilian gas mask
Fig. 26.4 Carry one everywhere
Figs. 26.5a, 26.5b Gendering the fear of gas
Fig. 26.6 Gas mask box counts in London by Mass Observation
Fig. 27.2 Albert Jones’s patent for the improvement in paper for packing, 1871
Fig. 27.4 An elderly homeless African-American woman pushes a pram with a large cardboard box on top
Fig. 29.2 Prussian Counting Card, 210x210 mm (1871)
Fig. 30.1 An open glass DT-60 personnel dosimeter
Fig. 30.2 A set of ten original DT-60 dosimeters packaged with instructions and specifications
Fig. 30.3 Children in Fukushima with their radiation dosimeters called ‘glass badges’
Fig. 31.2 A modified design of the mirror trap
Fig. 32.1 Drawing of a variety of medicine bottles, made by a Yanomami health agent
Fig. 32.3 Doctor’s case for carrying injectable medicines during a visit to the villages
Fig. 32.5 Drawing of a mother holding a child, with a diversity of containers for diarrhoea medicine
Fig. 32.6 Area of the roof above the hearth
Fig. 33.1 Box by Agfa, Germany
Fig. 33.2 Box by Lastre M. Cappelli, Italy
Fig. 33.3 Box by J. Jougla, France
Fig. 33.4 Box by Grieshaber Frères & Cie, France
Fig. 33.5 Box by Richard Jahr, Germany
Fig. 33.6 Box by Gevaert, Belgium
Fig. 33.7 Box by Gevaert, Belgium
Figs. 34.1a, 34.1b The box and the imprinting of its content: During and after feeding the lice
Fig. 34.2 A set of Sikora boxes and its kin species
Figs. 34.3a, 34.3b Empty boxes (healthy lice) and full boxes (filled with Rickettsia prowazeki)
Figs. 34.5a, 34.5b Dissecting units at the Behring Institute, Lwów around 1942
Fig. 34.6 Louse feeders at the Behring Institute, Lwów ca. 1942
Fig. 34.7 Jews-Lice-Typhus, Nazi propaganda poster, 1941
Fig. 35.2 A wheeled, steel chest with a wooden top
Fig. 36.2 Another surgeon’s chest from the Mary Rose
Fig. 37.1 Open electrotherapy box
Fig. 37.2 Closed electrotherapy box
Fig. 37.3 George Adams’s prototype; 1785 essay on electricity or a later edition
Fig. 38.1 Reliquary with scenes from the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket, c.1173–1180
Fig. 39.1 Research Box, on display
Fig. 39.2 Research Box, in closed form
Fig. 39.3 Research Box prefers human companionship
Fig. 39.4 Research Box, detail of performance
Fig. 39.5 Research Box, field marks
Fig. 39.6 Research Box, in Kavala
Fig. 39.7 Research Box, on display in the Kavala Municipal Tobacco Warehouse
Fig. 39.8 Research Box, at the Copenhagen Business School
Fig. 39.10 Enquiry machines in Copenhagen
Fig. 39.11 Research Box, transformed into enquiry machine
Fig. 39.12 Research Box, performing the digitisation of a text
Fig. 39.13 Research Box, drawing attention to the varying sizes of digitised texts and images
Fig. 39.14 Research Box, performing as a publication in the humanities