Automatic Collection

Horn & Hardart Automat, New York City, USA
Horn & Hardart Automat, 57th Street and 6th Avenue, New York City, USA, one of a large chain of cafes and restaurants serving over half a million people per day. Date: circa 1930

New British Sten gun by G. H. Davis
The Sten gun: the new British machine gun, introduced during the Second World War, explained in detail. It is a simplified Tommy-gun that fires almost any type of 9mm ammunition at 550 rounds per

John Moses Browning
JOHN MOSES BROWNING American inventor of automatic pistols, rifles etc : shown with one of his machine guns

Military spy - a camera carrying pigeon
A pigeon as a military spy. A camera small enough to be attached on a bird to capture ariel images, ideal for war time spying. The camera is automatic and takes a photograph at regular intervals

Telephone Exchange 1929
Londons new Automatic Telephone Exchange, showing an engineer testing the new revolutionary system, whereby subscribers were connected without an operator

Automatic Phone Exchange
Automatic telephone exchange of the British Post Office, which at that time managed the telephone network

Cameron Highlanders with Maxim gun, WW1
Two soldiers of the Cameron Highlanders using a Maxim gun during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Advert for Stereoscopic Company, hand-held cameras 1894
Advert for the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, two latest hand-helded cameras: The New Binocular camera, hand camera takes moving objects instantaneously, no need for focussing

A Calculating machine, 1949
A double page spread from the Illustrated London News, 1949, reporting on the automatic sequence controlled calculating machine at Manchester University

Danish medium Anna Rasmussen
Undated photograph of the Danish medium Anna Rasmussen (1898 - ?), author of automatic scripts

Converting a London telephone exchange
Front cover photograph of the stupendous task of converting a London telephone exchange to the new Automatic Principle. Date: October 1926

Pianola
Advertisement for the Pianola, the automatic piano-player from the Orchestrelle Company of Regent Street

An incubator nursery
Nurses attending to sick babies kept alive in a ward of incubators. The incubators pictured are from a design by Paul Altmann and distributed by Messrs Coney and Schenkhein

New dial operated telephone system
Series of three photographs showing a new automatic system of telephoning introduced in Britain in 1911. The movement of a dial operated electrical switches and magnets in the telephone exchange

Hawker Hunter FGA. 74 505
Singapore Air Defence Command - Hawker Hunter FGA.74 505 (msn 41H/680085, ex XJ632 and G-9-356), on the line with armourers preparing the ADEN gun pack for removal

Piper J-3 Cub G-AFFJ with the Everell single-blade propeller
Piper J-3 Cub G-AFFJ (msn 1165), seen with the Everell patented single-blade automatic variable- pitch propeller. The single propeller blade was balanced by a counterweight and was free to pivot

Never-stop railway at British Empire Exhibition 1924
Diagram showing step-on, step-off method, where people walked slowly onto the moving carriage that went around the British Empire Exhibition, in Wembley, designed by William Yorath Lewis

An automatic slate picker Scranton Pennsylvania USA early 1900s

Automatic packing machines for Lux soap, Port Sunlight, Wirral

Automatic soap packing machines, Port Sunlight, early 1900s

Port Sunlight - automatic packing - early 1900s

Light Automatic Rifle Calibre Gun during WW1 Date: circa 1916

Machine Gun WW1 Date: circa 1916

WW2 - Firing An Automatic Rifle
An illustration for a WW2 children's short story, Strangers Of The Sea, written by Arthur Groom. The image portrays a military naval man firing an automatic rifle. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Royal Air Force Metal Worker
A portrait photograph of a British WW2 Royal Air Force metal worker stripping an engine casing with an automatic drill. Date: circa 1940s

Young Russian inventor Anatol M Josephs received the first US patent for a fully automatic photographic film developing machine

Advert for the innovative Rev-Robe luggage
The Rev-Robe by Revelation Luggage promises a quick, easy and creaseless packing experience in this advert. Date: circa 1939

How the Penny in the Slot Works - little girl with chocolate machine Date: 1930s

Local Defence Volunteer Force 1940
Local defence volunteer force turns out to defend towns and villages if German attempt to parachute in Britain. Volunteers wearing two-piece khaki uniforms

A position held by Carlist Requetes of the Nationalist army during the Spanish Civil War. One of the men can be seen firing a light automatic machine gun through a hole in the parapet

A customer plays an automatic bridge-playing slot machine Date: circa 1937

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

London Underground station booking hall, with automatic ticket machines at different prices. Date: circa 1930

London Underground ticket and change giving machine, issuing twopenny tickets. Date: 1928

Advert for Dunhills Lytup Handbags 1923
Advertisement for the Lytup handbag from Alfred Dunhill, with a small electric light illuminating the contents whenever it is opened up

Advert, Pfaff Sewing Machines. 1897

Authropoglossos St. Jamess Hall, Piccadilly
Authropoglossos or mechanical large vocalist dummy head, made of wax and ornamented with that profusion of hair and beard, in the month he wears a large tin funnel

Automata newsboy and flower girl 1887
Aut-omata aut nullus, erected by the anti-street Brawling association, to replace newsboys and flower girls. Date: 1887

Cartoon, The Automatic Policeman -- Put a penny in the slot and he stops the traffic. 1889

Soldier firing rifle-calibre Maxim Gun. circa 1900

Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic gun. late 19th century

Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295
(United States Air Force - )Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295, on display at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio in Texas, in the USAF History and Traditions Museum collection

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Comic Postcard - Don t try to enter by the Exit Door or you will get Squeezed! - A smart young Gent is trapped neither within or without this packed rush hour District Line London Underground

Pouring Cup of Coffee Date: 1950

Boeing 247D DZ203
Boeing 247D, DZ203, was used for instrument and automatic landing systems research by the RAF during WW2

Advert for Geo. Salter & Co. household items Advert for Geo. Salter & Co
Selection of household specialities, available from Geo. Salter & Co. in West Bromwich. Date: 1887

Rifle, Self-Loading, 7. 92 Mm, Fg42
Fallschirmjagergewehr FG42 7. 92 mm automatic rifle, 1942-1945; with bayonet; no magazine; used by German parachute troops in World War Two, in France and Italy. Date: 1942

Automatic pistol, magazine & revolver
Diagram of the automatic pistol with its magazine, and revolver with its clip-loader. Both revolers and automatic pistols were supplied to the various branches of the Army and to the Navy. Date: 1915

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