Improved Collection

The Gullet, Stafford Street, Birmingham
Under the Artisans and Labourers dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, slum areas like the gullet were cleared and improved. Date: 16 December 1876

Gatwick airport, 1936
The improved Gatwick airport at the time of its official opening, 1936. The new Martello tower-style design enabled the airport to deal with six big air liners at once. 1936

Trial of Anchors at the Royal Dockyard, Sheerness, July 1852
Engraving of a trial of various anchor designs, held at the Royal Dockyard Sheerness, from the Illustrated London News, 17th July 1852

Phonograph Recording
Recording a man playing the piano using Edisons improved model phonograph

Watts Steam Engine
James Watts improved steam engine of 1788

Advert, Doultons improved hooded baths, London, Paisley and Paris. circa 1890

The Improved Ladys Own Sewing Machine by Leigh & Crawford, Brooke Street, Holborn, London EC. 19th century

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon
Jeremy Benthams proposed panopticon workhouse or industry house for up to 2000 inmates. The scheme, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Airco Dh-5 War Plane
A pilot stands in front of the propellor of his Airco DH-5, a biplane fighter which had improved vision due to the the upper wing being closer to the rear of the cockpit. Date: circa 1917

Stutz Safety
The improved new Safety Stutz - implying that all previous models, and of course all cars made by others, are NOT safe

Royal Air Force - Avro Lancaster B. VI
Royal Air Force - Avro Lancaster B.VI, one of nine aircraft converted from B.IIIs, fitted with Rolls-Royce Merlin 85/87 which had two-stage superchargers

Abraham Wivell's Improved Fire Escape Date: 1860

WW2 - An Improved Supermarine Spitfire
An illustration of a British WW2 Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane soaring through the skies. Date: circa 1940s

Advert, Rudge-Whitworth 500 cc Ulster Motor Cycle Date: 1939

London Town House Interior Design
An interior design illustration for Waring & Gillow, showing an improved version of a hall and staircase in a London town house. Date: circa 1916

Beechcraft RC-12D 80-23373
United States Army - Beechcraft RC-12D improved Guardrail V 80-23373 (msn GR-4), of 56 AvnCo, at RAF Mildenhall, on 26 May 1990 Date: 1990

Beechcraft RC-12D 80-23375
United States Army - Beechcraft RC-12D improved Guardrail V 80-23375 (msn BP-016), of 56 AvnCo, at RAF Mildenhall, on 26 May 1985 Date: 1985

Beechcraft RC-12D improved Guardrail V 80-23375
United States Army - Beechcraft RC-12D improved Guardrail V 80-23375 (msn BP-016) Date: circa 1990

Advert, Dr Lowder's Magneto-Electric Battery
Advert, bizarre medical device, Dr Lowder's Magneto-Electric Battery Date: 1889

Advert for Strettons Ltd, Trailing Cars, Cheltenham Date: 1902

AJEP W-8 Tailwind G-BALR
AJEP W-8 Tailwind Series 1 G-BALR (msn TW4-381), at Southend Airport in October 1977. This aircraft was destroyed when it flew into Steeple, Scoat Fell, in bad weather on 29 February 1984

Bell X-1E 46-603 (msn 0002), on display in front of the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center headquarters building at Edwards Air Force Base, California

Advert, Waterlows Patent Autographic Press
Advert, Waterlows Patent Improved Autographic Press or Portable Printing Machine for the counting house, office or library, by means of which every person may become his own printer. 1854

Biggs sheep-dipping apparatus 1851
Thomas Bigg, Leicester House, Great Dover Street, Southwark, inventor and manufacturer of improved apparatus for sheep-dipping, using five men is capable of dipping 500 sheep per day. Date: 1851

Meltham Mills 1851
Meltham Mills, near Huddersfield. Brooks family, Royal improved, patent cotton spinning mill. 1851

Advert, Reid McFarlane & Co Ltd, Manufacturers, Glasgow
Advert for Reid McFarlane & Co Ltd, Manufacturers, Hyde Park Street, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

The improved Dynamometer of M Regnier. Date: 1803

Improved cast-iron portable copper
Mounted on wheels, a man pouring water into a cast-iron portable boiler. Date: late 19th century

Weir W-2, at RAF Hendon on 19 July 1951. G. & J. Weir of Cathcart in Glasgow were an established engineering company, founded in 1871, which built aircraft during the First World War

Thomas-Morse MB-3A AS68237
(Boeing) Thomas-Morse MB-3A AS68237 (msn 210). The first production MB-3A built by Boeing, who had won the Army contract to build 200 of the improved MB-3. Date: circa 1921

de Havilland DH. 104 Dove 8 G-ARDH
de Havilland DH.104 Dove 8 G-ARDH (msn 04519), later to be modified by Riley in the United States for improved performance. Date: circa 1960

Fiedler 1910 Eindecker powered by a 50 PS Daimler engine. (PS= Pferd starke - a German equivalent of horsepower) Paul Fiedler was one of Austrias early aviation pioneers

Musket, Flintlock, . 75 In New Land Pattern
New Land Pattern. 75 in Light Infantry musket, 1810 (c). Utilising the same lock and general characteristics of the Infantry Musket this weapon has a shorter, 39 in barrel

New railway carriage 1847
Sketch to show the improved railway carriage, construction by Adam of Fair Fields Works, for the North Woolwich Branch, with interiors for the first and second class compartments. Date: 1847

Engine House at the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works 1865
Visit of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to open the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness. Number of visitors in the engine room of the works

Advert for Thomas Fletcher gas heating appliances 1889
Page of advertisements of gas-heating appliances. Date: 1889

EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist; he improved the telescope and invented the barometer Date: 1608 - 1647

ANTISS SPINNING WHEEL
Antisss improved spinning wheel Date: 1797

RAMSDENS MACHINE
Jesse Ramsdens improved machine for generating static electricity using glass plates, the original version of which he had invented in 1768. Date: late 18th century

Fire Engine, 1805
Bramahs improved patent fire engine Date: 1805

Bullock-Curtiss 1912 pusher replica NX5704N. Built in 1947 this aircraft is currently registered to the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum

Remington Standard Typewriter No. 7
The Remington Standard Typewriter No. 7 -- an improved model

Quinquet Oil Lamp
Quinquets oil lamp - an improved design. Date: after 1790

Queen Mary ocean liner: Steering-wheels; crows nest
The first example of complete steering-gear duplication; and the first crows nest provided with warmth (besides improved shelter) for the look-out men. Date: 1936

Advert for the Olva sleeping blanket, WW1
Advertisement for the Olva improved sleeping blanket, a great improvement on the ordinary sleeping bag. Invaluable for officers on active service

Advert for Arctic Lamps 1898
Decorative lamps with the old style burning shades and the new improved Artic lamp with shade support. 1898

Harry Emanuels new house of business, Brook Street
Improved street architecture: Mr Harry Emanuels new house of business in Brook Street, Hanover Square, London W1, in 1860. Date: 1860

Trevithicks Later Car
Trevithicks improved passenger- carrying steam carriage is kept going by a stoker on a little platform at the rear, or stern, of the vehicle. Date: 1803

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