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Commercially Collection

Background imageCommercially Collection: Listowel Monorail

Listowel Monorail
The Lartigue monorail linking Listowel and Ballybunion is the worlds first commercially viable monorail, operating till 1924. It will be partly reconstructed in 2003

Background imageCommercially Collection: Model of John Blenkinsops rack-rail engine

Model of John Blenkinsops rack-rail engine. Being a steam locomotive propelled by a toothed wheel engaging in a rack on one of the rails

Background imageCommercially Collection: Casmuniz 52 PT-AZU

Casmuniz 52 PT-AZU (msn 1, also, known as Casmuniz 5-2). The sole aircraft first flew in April 1952 and completed flight testing by 1955, whilst registered as PP-ZPD

Background imageCommercially Collection: Vickers. 303 in Class C medium machine gun, 1910

Vickers. 303 in Class C medium machine gun, 1910 (c). Commercially produced model; fitted with blast deflector; associated mount and tripod, wooden box of spares

Background imageCommercially Collection: Commercially made German Trench Art lighter

Commercially made German Trench Art lighter in the shape of a shell imprinted Nolly. Trench Art

Background imageCommercially Collection: Commercially made French Trench Art lighter

Commercially made French Trench Art lighter imprinted Capo, Paris. Trench Art

Background imageCommercially Collection: Jessica Jarvis Toronto Ontario c 1934

Jessica Jarvis Toronto Ontario c 1934
Jessica Jarvis, Toronto, Ontario, circa 1934. One of the first women in Canada to be commercially qualified. Date: 1934

Background imageCommercially Collection: Carrington House, Deptford

Carrington House, Deptford
Carrington House was erected in Deptford in 1903 by the London County Council as a hostel for working men. It was operated along similar lines to Londons commercially run Rowton Houses

Background imageCommercially Collection: Portrait of Fulton. Engraving

Portrait of Fulton. Engraving
FULTON, Robert (1765-1815). North-American nautical engineer. Inventor who developed the first commercially successful steamboat

Background imageCommercially Collection: Portrait of Fulton. Oil

Portrait of Fulton. Oil
FULTON, Robert (1765-1815). North-American nautical engineer. Inventor who developed the first commercially successful steamboat

Background imageCommercially Collection: Suffragette Votes for Women Figure

Suffragette Votes for Women Figure
A figure of a suffragette in carved and painted wood. The woman is dressed in somewhat mannish mode with pork-pie hat, shirt and tie and brown jacket

Background imageCommercially Collection: Ink-stand with inkwell - Badge of the Royal Engineers

Ink-stand with inkwell - Badge of the Royal Engineers
A commercially made ink-stand with inkwell and nib drawer by RB Limited. The lid to the inkwell shows the badge of the Royal Engineers. Trench Art

Background imageCommercially Collection: Baby incubators at the Berlin Exhibition

Baby incubators at the Berlin Exhibition
Dr Lions baby incubators proved to be a great attraction at the Berlin Exhibition. Babies aged between five and eight months old were kept alive in warm temperatures and nourished with drops of milk

Background imageCommercially Collection: Grammes dynamo-electrical machine

Grammes dynamo-electrical machine
Engraving by W. Bazzett Murray showing Grammes direct-current dynamo. Zenobe Theophile Gramme (1826-1901) built the first successful dynamo in 1869

Background imageCommercially Collection: Sigismund August

Sigismund August
SIGISMUND II (Zygmunt) OF POLAND His reign was the golden age of Polish history : the country flourished socially, commercially and culturally

Background imageCommercially Collection: Purifying Sulphur

Purifying Sulphur
Once the sulphure has been mined, it must be refined before it can be used commercially. Furnaces at Catolica perform this operation on the spot

Background imageCommercially Collection: Thomas Savery / Smiles

Thomas Savery / Smiles
THOMAS SAVERY English military engineer, patented first commercially successful steam engine Date: 1650 - 1715

Background imageCommercially Collection: Gas Laser Light Beam

Gas Laser Light Beam
The first commercially available long life gas laser, capable of producing a continuously intense beam of ultra-violet light


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