Fritz Kahn ( 1888 - 1968 ) , the pioneer of infographics , published more than 20 books with his creative person Friend and made thousands ofscientific illustrations . His infographics attempt to take you inside the functioning of the human mind and body , by depicting people as rather capricious contraption . Here are his most amazing illustrations .
Kahn was chased out of Gemany by the Nazis , who burned his books , emigrate to Palestine , France and New York with the aid of Albert Einstein . Along the way , he avail chip in to our reason of ourselves .
Fairytale journey along the bloodstream, by Arthur Schmitson, 1924
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Muscle and doorbell connections in their five-part congruence, by G. Edelstein, 1924
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Man as Industrial Palace, 1926
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The biology of smelling a roast, 1926
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The number of bacteria in the air in a metropolis. People recognise the exceptional importance of watering the streets to keep down the dust and of disinfecting the air, as well as the health hazards accompanying large crowds, 1926
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The nervous system as an electronic signaling system. The brain is an office where messages are sorted, 1926
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Vibration-free montage in technology and nature: astronomical telescope and blood vessel in the ear, 1929
Daily hair growth: the human body produces 100 feet of hair substance every day. If all this growth were to converge into one single hair, that hair would grow by one inch every minute, 1929
Cars and ears are similar, 1929
An anatomical landscape from the inside of the nostril looking out, 1931
Burning energy, 1931
The reflex mechanism of salivation
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A set of teeth is a tool chest containing various different implements. The incisors (a) cut the food, (b) the canines perforate it, (c) the carnassials saw through it and the molars (d) grind up the crumbs. The tongue converts the food broken up by the teeth into mush; it is covered with papillae shaped like clubs, rollers, graters and brushes, 1939
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The lid-and-tear apparatus is a windshield-wiper with automatic windshield-spray, by Albert Müller, 1939
The seven functions of the nose, 1939
What goes on in our heads when we see a car and say ‘car’, 1939
The effects of sunlight on the health of the body, 1940
The Speed of Thought, 1943
We see with the occipital area of the brain, 1943
Respiration, 1943
This is how dessert cleans the tongue, 1943
The work of the heart, 1943
The blood corpuscles, joined together in a chain, would span the globe four times, 1943
Man is an “eye” animal, a dog is a “nose” animal, 1943
The prototype are fromSOCKS , except when noted otherwise .
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