Diagrams Collection (#2)

Musique - music - musical instruments
A dizzying array of musical instruments. Date: 1930

Cut-away of the Empress of Ireland
Cross-section diagram of RMS Empress of Ireland which sank off Father Point at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in the early hours of 29th May 1914. 1914

Man in Khaki WW1 sock knitting kit box and instructions
The Man in Khaki sock knitting kit, designed to make the knitting of socks for troops as simple and efficient as possible

How a Submarine Dives & Rests on Sea Floor, WW1
Diagrams showing how a submarine or U-boat dives below the water and rests at the bottom of the sea. Date: 1917

The Plan of Jerusalem. Town map layout showing the location of the American Colony Stores. Date: C. 1910

HMS Poseidon submarine escape apparatus
HMS Poseidon and the submarine escape apparatus. Poseidon was sunk on 9th June 1931 after colliding with the Chinese merchant steamer SS Yuta

Hospitals for fighting ships 1916
Floating dock on which works is often taken place to repair battleships, a box-like structure with pontoon floors and side-walls

A diagram of the proposed Charing Cross Bridge
Plans for a new double-decker bridge at Charing Cross, designed by Sir Owen Williams and at the time recently approved by a royal commission

German poison- gas 1915
Diagrams of various kinds of apparatus employed by Germans. 1915

Leaflet, Imperial Airways, Facts About Air Travel. 20th century

Mach 3 Aircraft (Concorde) by G. H. Davis
The Question for the 1960s - Mach 3 aircraft - a prototype for tomorrow or a manifestation of yesterdays dream? Diagrammatic illustration by G. H

Women police officers, one on horseback
Women police officers in uniform, one on horseback (Eva Christy) and one on foot (Nina Boyle). Date: circa 1910s

Rover Car Brochure - Diagrams of Saloon and Sports Saloon
Rover Car Brochure - Interior plan diagrams of the Saloon and Sports Saloon models

Unmanned boat steered by light, war device
An unmanned boat steered by light: a 25, 000 war device. Tested during the First World War before Lord Fisher and Mr Balfour on Penn Pond in Richmond Park

Sugar mill machinery
Diagrams showing part of the elevation and plan of an improved sugar refinery by Edward Woollery Esq of Jamaica. Date: 18th century

Projects for a road & rail link between Britain & France
A double page spread from The Illustrated London News demonstrating a number of rival proposals for building a road and rail link between France and Britain

Proposed Channel bridge, 1889
Diagrams demonstrating a 24 mile long superstructure bridge to cross the Channel, proposed in 1889 as an alternative to the long-debated Channel Tunnel. The bridge was suggested by M

Gotha giant biplane, WW1 diagram
The new German raider, the Gotha giant biplane, diagrammed in The Graphic, which described by the paper as typically Teutonic in its lack of finesse. Date: 1917

Diagrammatic view of home of Great Eight
Interior wonders of Inveresk House in the Strand, London, the new home of the Great Eight, containing the offices of the Illustrated London News, Sketch, Sphere, Tatler, Graphic, Bystander

French mine crater WWI
View of French soldiers working at the mine face in the tunnel in darkness, and a diagram showing two branches stretching to the right and left where tons of explosive are to be placed. Date: 1916

Shell damage in Hartlepool, WW1
Shell damage to buildings in Hartlepool after a night of bombing during the First World War. Diagrams show the path of a shell, damaging houses and industrial chimneys. 16 December 1914

Four famous British aeroplanes by G. H. Davis
Four famous British aeroplanes: the Hurricane (fighter), the Spitfire (fighter), the Defiant (night fighter), and the Blenheim (bomber fighter)

Empress of Britain by G. H. Davis
The ocean liner, Empress of Britain, a steamship owned by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company pictured in detailed cross-section by the artist G. H. Davis

Battleship v. submarine by G. H. Davis
Battleship versus submarine: Sir Percy Scotts views on the position of the capital ship illustrated in a series of special Sphere diagrams. Top: the fleet bottled up in a harbour by submarines

Tracked machine guns and in fights by G. H. Davis
Mechanical supports for the infantry of the British Army as depicted by ILN special diagrammatic artist, G. H. Davis, showing tankettes with trailer wagons for transporting machine-guns together with

Tank manoeuvres controlled by radio-telephony by G. H. Davis
Annotated illustration showing a company-commander broadcasting his orders to his section-commanders by wireless. The tank in the foreground is seen cut away diagrammatically to show the driver

New House-building Techniques by G H Davis
Several diagrams demonstrating new building techniques involving steel and concrete. In the article, these techniques are given credit for increasing house-building by a large margin

Magnetic mine by G. H. Davis
The German magnetic mine: the first diagrams of its working and the methods by which it is laid. Diagrams showing the delicate electrical mechanism which reacts to the weak magnetic field set up by a

A revolving house by G. H. Davis
A revolving house the owner can turn while in his bath. Rotated like a turntable to catch the sun at any point: the Villa Tournesol

Sailing without sails by G. H. Davis
Sailing without sails: wind action on rotating cylinder masts. Partly driven and partly drawn forward by the action of wind on rapidly revolving cylinders

Taking thread: Sound-Waves on a Cord 1922
Mr. W F Croll, who holds the parent, of a method of recording and reproducing sound-waves by means of a cellulose thread instead of by the generally known disc or cylinder record

Reduced facsimile of a Chart of Physical Exercises (supplied with Cassells Physical Educator). Date: circa 1910s

A sketch of Goatsbeard and two diagrams of fruit parachuting. Design Illustration from Cayleys original notebook

Diagrams of a herons wing: (a) plan view; (b) wing section; (c) rear view, to show lateral curvature. 1808. From Cayleys original notebook

Titanic - Need for Searchlights on Ocean Racers
Page from The Sphere demonstrating how searchlights on fast ocean passenger liners might have avoided the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

The Wreck of the Titanic - Noted passengers - Sphere
Page from The Sphere reporting on the disaster of the sinking of White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic, featuring portraits of notable passengers including W. T. Stead, Mr and Mrs J. J

London tube made air raid proof, 1939
Page from The Sphere outlining how London Underground had carried out emergency work on the under-river tube tunnels to make them waterproof from flooding during World War II

Titanic - How Ice Blink reveals the presence of bergs
Diagram in The Sphere during the inquiry into the Titanic disaster showing how ice blink reveals the presence of bergs underneath the water

Roberts and Coppocks Improvement in Looms for Weaving
Technical drawing of an invention, patented in 1855, by Roberts and Coppock, consisting of an improved arrangement of parts for letting the yarn off the warp beam in a weaving loom

Perrys Improved Printing Machine
Technical drawing showing an invention of Mr T. J Perry of the Lozells, Birmingham and comprises a method of constructing the moveable types used in cylinder printing

Steam Whipping Engine by J. Scott Russell and Co
Technical drawing depicting a patent Steam Whipping Machine constructed by Messrs. J. Scott Russell and Co. of Millwall and used to load and discharge cargo on screw collier ships. Date: 1856

Music Notation, 1810
Diagrams illustrating musical notation. The treble, tenor and base clef, the diatonic scale and note names and values are indicated. Date: 1810

Microscope 1882
Diagrams of a microscope and its constituent parts. Date: 1882

Stratification Diagrams
Two diagrams to explain stratification: the books represent the different stratas in a depth of about 5 miles; the hand indicates depth of the coal strata Date: 19th century

Diagram of R101 crash
A diagram showing how the British R101 airship dived twice and crashed on a hillside of Allonne, near Beauvais, France on 5th October 1930 on its maiden voyage

Diagram of food depots for the Scott polar expedition
Diagrams showing how the food depots were distributed along the 750 mile route of the British Antarctic expedition to the South Pole led by Captain Scott

Factory technician at the control desk
A factory technician sits at the control desk for a variety of electronic systems in use at a factory. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Coal Problem, Great Britain, 1920
Illustration showing a number of facts regarding the coal industry of Great Britain in 1920. These diagrams showed that miners wages were increasing, but coal production was diminishing

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