Automatic Collection (page 2)

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

Sperry bomb-sight apparatus 1944
Diagram of a Sperry bomb-sight O-1 used by the United States Army Air Forces (USaF) bombers in World War Two. By manipulating the various control knobs

Winifred Coombe-Tennant (Mrs Willett), medium
Winifred Margaret Serocold Coombe-Tennant (pseudonym: Mrs Willett, 1874-1956), British suffragette, politician, philanthropist, patron of the arts and spiritualist who engaged in automatic writing

Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at sance
Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at a sance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, 8 March 1932. Harry Price and Professor David Fraser-Harris are controlling Schneider

Sir Henry Morton Stanley with a Maxim Automatic Machine-Gun
Engraving of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the Anglo-American journalist and explorer, sitting astride a Maxim Automatic Machine-gun, 1887

Machine Gun, Light, Arisaka, 6. 5 Mm Type 96
Type 96 (1936) 6. 5 mm light machine gun, 1936-1945. Introduced in 1936 as a replacement for the 11th Year Model, this gun was little better than the earlier type

Woman doing automatic writing in a garden -- she is Mrs P Savile of South Norwood, London, who could receive psychic information from an entity called White Cloud

Bendix washing machine advertisement, c. 1955
Advertisement for the Bendix automatic home washer, which, claims the woman in the advert, really does do everything. I find that hard to believe. c.1955

Rudi Schneider evading control of Harry Price
Undated photograph of Rudi Schneider evading control of Harry Price at a sance. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into the mediumistic abilities of

An incubator designed by Paul Altmann and distributed by Messrs Coney and Schenkhein. The machine was automatic with the temperature maintained by a thermostat

Gentleman on 1904 NSU motorcycle
Gentleman on 1904 NSU 350cc Single motorcycle on country road circa 1904

Cutting and Binding Grass With Automatic Machine - a view of a two horse drawn machine for cutting and binding grass being driven by a man in a field. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Automatic central battery telephone. Model 27. Siemens. 1927. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

The First Juke Box?
The french introduce the automatic music distributor. You insert 10 centimes and it will play music. Could this have been the first juke box? Date: 1893

Cigar Lighters
Two lighters, including the Chronometer Automatic lighter, which will ignite in all conditions of wind and weather. circa 1909

Paranormal: William S. Marriott simulates automatic writing
The British magician William S. Marriott simulates automatic writing, inspired by a ghostly guide. Date: 1910

Bread-Making Plant
A complete automatic bread- making plant, constructed by Werner, Pfleiderer & Perkins Date: 1909

Auto-Novum self-service restaurant, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Auto-Novum self-service (automat) restaurant, Korte Hoogstraat, Rotterdam, Netherlands, in art nouveau style. Date: circa 1910

Its Automatic. Southbank, Middlesbrough 1970s Date: 1970s

Sun Motors car wash, St Petersburg, Florida, USA, offering a complete auto wash in three minutes for one dollar 25 cents. Date: circa 1940s

The Monitor: Automatic but not fool-proof by H. M. Bateman
" The Monitor. Automatic, but not fool-proof: a war-drama in nine fits." This Bateman cartoon from World War One sends up the jingoistic, often misguided

Advert fo J. Foot & Son, convalescing in comfort 1915
WW1 - A product advertisment promoting The Burlington Rest-Chair, an adjustable recling chair. The product is advertised as the ideal chair for the sick and wounded

A Munitionette, Munition worker, WW1
A woman operating an automatic cartridge machine in a munition factory during the First World War. Date: 1917

Two weapons automatic rifle & Germans automatic pistol 1917
The comparison of the automatic rifle and Germans automatic pistol shown here in this diagram. The length of the automatic rifle

Sperry automatic computing gun sight by G. H. Davis
A mechanical brain: the Sperry automatic computing gun sight, in use during the Second World War. An invention which enabled US bombers to target a large number of enemy fighters. Date: 1944

RAF fire-fighting equipment by G. H. Davis
Fire-fighting in aircraft: the RAFs new automatic equipment. An aviation danger overcome: the Graviner system of preventing fire when an aircraft crashes. Date: 1939

British machine gunners on guard, WW1
British machine gunners on guard on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Swanmaid dishwasher advertisement, 1964
Advertisement for the Swanmaid dishwashing machine from 1964, a completely automatic fuss-free front loading scientific washing and drying machine for crockery and cutlery

Mrs Thomas Everitt, English spirit medium
Mrs Thomas Everitt (1825-1915), English spirit medium from 1855 onwards, wife of a North London tailor. She was the first to produce direct voices in England, claimed to be of John Watts and Znippy

David Duguid, James Bowman and H Nisbet
David Duguid (centre, 1832-1907), Scottish medium best known for his automatic and direct drawings. Seen here with James Bowman, photographer (left), and H Nisbet, publisher (right)

Cuttens photography apparatus
John Cuttens apparatus for automatically photographing any unusual incident. Date: 20th century

Advert for Rolleiflex cameras 1939
Win the prizes with a Rolleiflex. The Rolleiflex has won some of the biggest money prizes ever offered in photographic competitions and here are some of the reasons why

Advert for Asprey travel clocks 1936
Ados travelling clocks, luminous hands in morocco or pigskin, crocodile or lizard case. Also a 8-day clock aneroid, thermometer and automatic calendar, all you ever need! Date: 1936

Musical box by Nicoles Freres
Music boxes by Regina and Polyphon. Also pictured is an Edison phonograph. Date: c.1900

Automatic Autographer
An automatic autographer, a handy device for the famous, enabling multiple autographs to be signed on many photographs at the same time. Date: early 1930s

Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Automatic Balances. Date: circa 1910s

Photograph from an automatic camera suspended from net taken 25 August 1907 at East Horden, Essex. In the hoop: Oswald Short and the Hon Claud Brabazon

Instruments of NLL automatic observer

The first de Havilland DH51 G-EBIM after conversion to DH5
The first de Havilland DH51, G-EBIM, after conversion to DH51A configuration with single-bay wings and full-span automatic, camber-changing flaps

Piasecki XHUP-1 hovering hands-off on the automatic pilot

A Hawker Siddeley Trident lands automatically in low visability conditions during development trials of the automatic landing system

Advert for electric cookers by Belling 1931
Happy ladies ! Belling has made electric cooking cheap. 1. New visible heat boiling-griller and fastest in the world. 2. Temset automatic oven control. 3. All gleaming white mottled enamel finish

The automatic race track. Date c1896 June 4

Automatic train ticket machine, 1904
A novel idea introduced in 1904 of an automatic booking clerk available at Homerton railway station in East London, enabling early morning workmen to buy a train ticket for 2d by putting money in

Musical box
The aurephone-a patented musical instument that makes an ideal Christmas or New Year gift. Available for John G. Murdoch and Co. Ltd. Date: 1883

American soldiers with German machine gun, WW1
American soldiers manning a captured German machine gun on the western front during the First World War. Date: 1918

B. s. A. Coupe
The B.S.A. 10 fixed-head coupe fitted with Daimler Fluid Flywheel Transmission (precursor of later automatic systems. Date: 1936

DAF Variomatic card
Promotional card for the DAF Motor Company showing a jolly Dutch family in their smart new Daf motorcar - a Variomatic, a stepless, fully automatic transmission car. Date: circa 1939

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