Installed Collection

Londons new amusement: Up and down the escalator
Illustration from 1911 of the first escalators ever installed on the underground, between the District and the Piccadilly line platforms at Earls Court station

Wurlitzer Pipe Organ Ad
WURLITZER Have your own Wurlitzer installed at home and charm the hours away with the lovliest of melodies

Bell Rock Lighthouse, near Arbroath, Scotland
View of Bell Rock Lighthouse, near Arbroath, Scotland. Bell Rock is also known as the Inchcape Rock (made famous by a poem by Robert Southey)

Arboretum with fountain and Royce statue, Derby
The Arboretum, a public park near the centre of Derby, with a fountain (left) and a statue of Sir Frederick Henry Royce (1863-1933), the English engineer and automobile manufacturer

First Postbox, London
LETTER BOX The first Post Office letter box in London is installed at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street, at the foot of Ludgate Hill

View down the High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A view down the High Street from the Bear Hotel, in the town centre, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, with snow on the ground. Recently installed telegraph wires can be seen above

Trafalgar Square Lions
Nelson thanks Edwin Landseer for the lions which are finally installed at the foot of his column in Trafalgar Square. Date: 1867

Peter the Great, Equestrian Statue, St Petersburg
View of the equestrian statue to Peter the Great (1672 - 1725) in St Petersburg, Russia. Known as the Bronze Horseman, it was installed in 1782

Philippe IV Le Bel / Anon
PHILIPPE IV LE BEL ( the Fair ) King of France, a ruthless and ambitious ruler who inter alia suppressed the Templars and installed popes at Avignon

Philippe IV Le Bel / Jones
PHILIPPE IV LE BEL ( the Fair ) King of France, a ruthless and ambitious ruler who inter alia suppressed the Templars and installed popes at Avignon

Philippe IV Le Bel
PHILIPPE IV LE BEL ( the Fair ) king of France, a ruthless and ambitious ruler who inter alia suppressed the Templars and installed popes at Avignon

Boiler, Rouen
Boilers installed at a textile works, Filatures & Tissages de Pouyer-Quertier, Rouen, France Date: 1885

Blessing the Bells of St. Pauls Cathedral, 1878
Engraving showing the ceremony held to bless the newly installed bells of St. Pauls Cathedral, London, in 1878. The image shows a group of clergy, kneeling in prayer, and the ringers

Buchanan Installed
James Buchanan takes the oath of office as president : though a brilliant lawyer, he will not be able to prevent the nation drifting into civil war

QF 4-inch naval gun Mk XVI on a twin HA / LA mount
QF 4-inch naval gun Mk.XVI on a HA/LA Mk.XIX twin mounting. The Quick-firing Mk.XVI naval gun could be used on single mounts or in dual mounts, such as this HA/LA mount (High Angle / Low Angle)

USN - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo
United states Navy - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo 131630 or 131631. Turbo-Prop conversion of the R7V-1 for the US Navy

Douglas F3D-2 Skyknight on USS Antietam CVA-36
United States Navy - Douglas F3D-2 Skyknight performing touch and goes on the newly installed Angled Deck of USS Antietam CVA-36

Spring balance brass dial, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The spring balance used by Cody in early engine-thrust tests. Circa 1908, by Salter?s, the brass dial marked to 600lb

Tree and spring balance brass dial, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The spring balance used by Cody in early engine-thrust tests. Circa 1908, by Salter?s, the brass dial marked to 600lb

Cunard Line, QE2 - bridge telegraph
Cunard Line QE2 - original bridge telegraph that was installed in 1967 and remained until it was removed in 1987. Date: 20th century

Motor Car with luxuries, tea and picnics
Photographs of women and a man, taking tea, playing bridge, and enjoying a picnic from a hamper installed in a motor car. Captioned, If Goodwood were run on the Cowes system

Photograph of James Watt Planing Machine, originally installed in the Soho Foundry of Boulton and Watt, Birmingham which was purchased by Avery in 1895. Showing the planing machine. Date: circa 1920

Photograph of Old Face Plate Lathe, originally installed in the Soho Foundry of Boulton and Watt, Birmingham which was purchased by Avery in 1895. 3-speed gear and differential. Date: circa 1920

FELIPE V INSTALLED
When Carlos II dies with no heir, the duc d'Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV, is installed as Felipe V, triggering the War of the Spanish Succession. Date: 16 November 1700

A new Emir of Adamawa is installed. After the capture of Yola, Colonel Morland deposed the Emir and set up a brother of the vanquished ruler in his stead. Date: 1902

Boeing B-52D Stratofortress 56-0689 (msn 464060) at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. before construction of the American Air Museum building

Avro 652 Anson I N4877 - G-AMDA of the Skyfame museum at Staverton Airport N4877 was built at the Avro factory at Newton Heath, Manchester and was taken on charge by the Royal Air Force on Nov 17

The Mechanical Cow - early vending machine
The Automatic Milk Supply- an early form of vending machine installed in Ilford Essex in 1911. Jugs of milk could be filled for one old penny Date: 1911

Two boys explore nuclear fallout shelter, Deal, Kent
UKs first domestic nuclear fallout shelter about to be installed in Deal, Kent. Two young boys explore it. Date: circa 1960s

Unveiled Cenotaph, War Memorial 1920
Various photographs of George V revealing the Cenotaph War memorial in Whitehall, London. Showing the King placing a wreath at the bottom of the memorial

Link extinguishers
In Victorian times well-to-do householders would hire a link boy - a boy or young man who carried a flaming torch called a link to light the way for the traveller

James Watt Planing Machine
Photograph of James Watt Planing Machine, originally installed in the Soho Foundry of Boulton and Watt, Birmingham which was purchased by Avery in 1895

Photograph of Old Face Plate Lathe, originally installed in the Soho Foundry of Boulton and Watt, Birmingham which was purchased by Avery in 1895. The lathe taking work up to 26 feet diameter

Cartoon, On The Square? (Trafalgar Square)
Cartoon, On The Square? John Bull in Trafalgar Square, London, looking at a lion sculpture which hasn t yet been unveiled

Crawfords Tea Room
The Coquette. A tempera panel installed in Crawfords Tea Room in Edinburgh. Date: circa 1920

Zadoc Kahn installed as Chief Rabbi of France 1890
Zadoc Kahn being installed as the Chief Rabbi of France. Baron Alphonse James de Rothschild is depicted reading the decree of nomination. Date: 1890

Beechcraft F-2-BH
United States Army Air Corps - Beechcraft F-2-BH. (The 14 F-2s were given the msn 340 to 353 and serial numbers 40-682 to 40-695)

Lockheed C-130A-45-LM Hercules 57-0460
United States Air Force - Lockheed C-130A-45-LM Hercules 57-0460 (msn 182-3167) sold to South Vietnam. On 3 April 1975, 1st Lt Pham-Quang-Khiem

1886 Savage Steam Powered Fun Fair Carousel. A 38ft hree abreast 12 section steam gallopers powered by Savage No. 664 Lady Golightly steam Engine

ANTI-POPE FELIX II installed by emperor Constantine, who had exiled Liberius Date: reigned 355 - 365

DOMESTIC ELECTRICITY
Before mains electricity became available, those who could afford it installed their own electricity power plants, generally in the cellar, as here. Date: 1885

TURBINES AT NIAGARA FALL
A view of the turbines installed at Niagara Falls Date: circa 1895

ELECTRIC SHOCK MACHINE
Put a sou in the slot, and you can give yourself an electric shock, thanks to this device thoughtfully installed on the boulevard de Sebastopol, Paris Date: 1889

Newly opened Charing Cross Station, London 1864
The newly opened railway terminus of Charing Cross Station, Central London, with the hotel adjoining -- the Eleanor monument is not yet installed in the station yard. Date: 1864

St Dunstans clock
The clock at St Dunstan-in-the-West is one of the oldest in London. Installed just after the Great Fire of London in 1671, it was the first clock in London to have a minute hand

The Morse Cotton Baling Press. Cotton Hydraulic Press, New Morse system. Installed in New York. 1881. Xylography

Junkers Jumo 204 engine being installed in a Junkers G38
Junkers Jumo 204 being installed in a Junkers G38

Waterloo Station Signal Box, London, 1936
Photograph showing the then-new electric signal box installed at Waterloo Station, London, in 1936

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