Automation Collection

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

Aero Commander 680E G-ASHI (msn 658-255), of Elliott Automation. Date: circa 1968

Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot - Blue-Grey Metallic Body
Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot with grey blue body and colourful buttons and digital-style display panel

Planing machine, Clyde steamboat works, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1843

Boring machine, Clyde steamboat works, Glasgow
Man operating a boring machine, Clyde steamboat works, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1843

Cutting and punching engine, Clyde steamboat works, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1843

Carpet shearing machine in a Glasgow carpet factory
Woman operating a carpet shearing machine in a Glasgow carpet factory. Date: 1843

Combing wheel in a Glasgow carpet factory, operated by a woman and two children. Date: 1843

Scene at a Lancashire cotton printing works - singeing machine. Date: 1843

Scene at a Lancashire calico bleaching and dyeing works
Scene at a calico bleaching and dyeing works in Dukinfield, Lancashire, showing washing by dash wheels. Date: 1843

Carding machine in a Lancashire cotton mill
Carding machine with operatives in a Lancashire cotton mill. Date: 1843

Throwing machine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby, and (below) people throwing or spinning by hand. Date: 1843

Winding machine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby
Woman operating a winding machine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby. Date: 1843

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

Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot - Yellow Body (1 / 3)
Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot with yellow body, big red eyes, orange arms and blue feet

SHAVING OLD & NEW C1830 SHAVING OLD & NEW C1830
The old way and the new way of shaving: take your pick! Date: circa 1830

Card shuffler, illustration by William Heath Robinson
The new card shuffler and mechanical dealer for bridge parties, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

AUTOMATION
By the year 2000, factory workers will be no more than machine minders, controlling automated machines Date: 1911

Wool Winding Machine - Patons & Baldwins
A woman worker in dark blue overalls operating and checking a huge wool-winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington

New Worker - Fisher & Ludlows, Tipton
A photograph taken for an advertisement for the Daily Mirror of the type of New Worker the paper was trying to attract into its readership

Futuristic device to help a gentleman get dressed
A futuristic device to help a gentleman get dressed in the automatic home of the future. At the press of a button, a mechanical arm holds out his suit, top hat and walking stick

Futuristic poultry farming
An example of futuristic poultry farming, using a machine with various controls, and smoke coming out of a little chimney

Futuristic building site
A futuristic building site, on which all the work is done by machinery. The architect simply sits in a box and operates the controls

Futuristic automated tailoring establishment
A futuristic automated tailoring establishment, where the equipment does all (or most of) the work

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