Predicting Collection

Miss Modern magazine fortune teller
Front cover of Miss Modern magazine for November 1931, featuring a young gipsy fortune teller with a crystal ball (and the free gipsy ring, found FREE inside the magazine!). Date: 1931

The Pocket Marconigraph
Predicting the mobile phone - man stranded at sea sends a message on his Pocket Marconigraph Date: 1914

Fortune teller in Greenwich Park, south east London 1843
A fortune teller speaks to a young couple in Greenwich Park, south east London. Date: 1843

Caravaggio (1573-1610). Italian painter. The Fortune Teller. 1596-1597. Oil on canvas. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France

Hanoi, Vietnam - A blind street fortune-teller predicting future fortunes... Date: circa 1910s

The Fortune Teller by J. R. Skelton
Four girls sit by the fire in their nightwear as one of them predicts the future - perhaps who they will marry - by consulting some playing cards. Date: 1914

Elberfeld Monorail
The suspended overhead street railway at Elberfeld-Barmen, Germany. When this photograph was taken, experts were predicting that buses and trams would be suspended too! Date: 1930s

Religious Prophecying
A man and a woman at a London fair wear tabards predicting dire consequences for unbelievers on judgement day Date: 1960s

The Clairvoyante who Foretold her own Marriage by H M Batema
A sequential cartoon by H.M. Bateman showing a woman studying cards to tell her own future. Believing they re predicting she ll meet the man she ll marry imminently

Palm reader Zingora lets a lady know her love is true
Palm reader Zingora lets a lady know that somebody loves her madly! Is it the gentleman who is next in line...?! Date: circa 1907

The Crystal Gazers
Two girls sit in front of a fire and gaze into a crystal ball, wondering what the future holds. Date: 1911

Benson Herberts Lab
An experiment in predicting and/or influencing screen imagery, at Benson Herberts Paraphysical Laboratory, Downton [photo 2] Date: 1989

When Will the War End?
Military experts, blindfolded and clueless, decide when the war will end and why in 1915. Nobody looks as if they have a clue

In 1960 - or thereabouts
A humorous pictorial forecast by George Studdy from 1908 predicting how electrical inventions would change life in 1960. Credit should read

Tide predicting machine: front view
Photograph of the front view of the tide-predicting machine, designed by Lord Kelvin in 1876. Constructed by Lege for the Indian government

Indian Astronomer
An Indian Astronomer studies his charts

Future Flying Machine
Two years before the Wright brothers flight, illustrators were already predicting that flying machines like this would be among things to come

Psychokinesis Experiment
An experiment in predicting and/or influencing screen imagery, at Benson Herberts Paraphysical Laboratory, Downton

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