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Toy Electric Train Ad
An advertisement for the new Lionel 100% elecrically controlled railroad

German Armoured Vehicles; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing a selection of German armoured vehicles used during the Battle for Normandy in 1944. The vehicles shown include Panther and Tiger tanks (left foreground)

Palladino at Genova
Eusapia raises a table while controlled by Morselli, at Genova, 12 July 1906 picture 2 of 2

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

Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during sance with " ectoplasm" wrapped around her head and the end tucked into her nostrils, May 1931

Wunstorf Airfield, near Hanover, 1948
Photograph showing Wunstorf Airfield, near Hanover, in the British controlled zone of Germany, with a large number of Dakota and York airplanes lined up for use during the Berlin Airlift, 1948

de Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee / Tiger Moth UAV
An Un-Manned de Havilland Dh-82B Queen Bee Uav Taking-Off from a Compressed-Air Catapult System and is Controlled by Wireless Radio Signals in 1935 Date: 1935

Electrically controlled boat, Royal Naval Exhibition of 1891 in London

Royal Naval Exhibition 1891 - the electrically controlled boat

RMS Olympic, radio-controlled model boat
RMS OLYMPIC: Radio-controlled model boat. Lovingly crafted from original panelling from R.M.S. Olympic, by the owner of the Haltwhistle paint factory in Northumberland, Ray Cowell

A Henpecked Husband. A henpecked man is controlled by and a little frightened of a woman, especially his wife. Date: circa 1909

Nord Aviation N 500 Cadet (msn 001), at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1967, with airshow serial 344'. In 1966 Nord (later part of Aerospatiale) built two Cadets

Lockheed SP-2H Neptune N299MA - 99
Lockheed SP-2H Neptune N299MA / 99 (msn 726-7211), fire-bomber of Minden Air Corp. This aircraft was destroyed in a Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) on 3 October 2003. Date: circa 1998

Plaque to Captain J J Crowe VC, Nieuwkerke Hospice
The final German attempt to break through to the Channel ports, known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres, had initial success

Man as Machine. Registering the Heat-Energy of the Body
Page from The Illustrated London News demonstrating the calorimeter experiment at Sheffield University whereby a man is installed in a chamber In order to observe the heat generated by his body

Three horses, controlled by a ploughboy, pull the plough which the ploughman guides; a second team can be seen at the far side of the field Date: 1846

GERMAN POLICE IN TOGO
A German-controlled native African police troup, the Haussars in Lome, Togo, West Africa. Date: 1930s

STREET OF THE FUTURE
Traffic in the city street of the future will be monitored and controlled - and if necessary warned and admonished - from control cabins above street level. Date: 1934

PALLADINO AT GENOVA
Eusapia raises a table while controlled by Morselli, at Genova, 12 July 1906 picture 1 of 2 Date: 1854 - 1918

Airspeed AS-30 Queen Wasp
An Airspeed As-30 Queen Wasp Uav Radio-Controlled Un-Manned Target Aircraft Parked in June 1937 Date: 1937

321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
One of three photographs showing 321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, managing the controlled explosion of a stolen Datsun 120Y, Omagh district, 1975

Helen Duncan emitting ectoplasm from her mouth
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan emitting " ectoplasm" from her mouth, containing magazine cut-out head, during sance, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (i)"

WW2 - Shortage of Potatoes in Britain during the War
Sorry No Potatoes - a British housewife has limited choice for her vegetable purchasing, as potato stocks dry up due to tight rationing control over supply - December, 1941. Date: 1941

Vehicle dealing with suspect car, Templemore Avenue, East Be
Photograph of the vehicle dealing with a suspect car in Templemore Avenue, East Belfast, 1977. From a group of four photographs of the remotely-controlled ?Wheelbarrow

Childcare - Incubators for Newborn and Premature babies
Advertising postcard for a French company producing Incubators for newborn and prematurely born infants - exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900

HMS Comus left behind at Istanbul, Turkey - August 1923
HMS Comus (a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy - attached to the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean Fleet ) left behind at Istanbul

Westland Pterodactyl 2
Geoffrey Hills successful tailless aeroplane, controlled by moving the wing-tips which act as both elevators and ailerons. Date: 1926

Advertisement for Linia-belts 1930s
Advertisement for Linia-belts for figure-conscious men Early 20th Century

The Melbourne Custom House
Slide showing a black and white photograph of the Melbourne Custom House in the city of Melbourne in Australia. In this building customs officers recorded all goods entering or leaving Victoria;

Model of a Royal Aircraft Factory aeroplane - FE2A. The rudder can be controlled by a joystick in the cockpit. Trench Art

Rockets and flying bombs by G. H. Davis
Rockets and flying bombs as seaborne weapons of future navies. How wireless-controlled robot projectiles may be carried and operated by capital ships. 1945

Sperry bomb sight in action by G. H. Davis
Precision bombing: the Sperry bomb sight in action during a raid, Second World War. The flight of bombs is controlled by a mechanism guided by a skilled bombardier. Date: 1944

Crewless aircraft for atomic explosions by G. H. Davis
Crewless aircraft, controlled from parent machines, which will probe the secrets of an atomic bomb explosion by means of television. Date: 1946

How a tank is controlled by G. H. Davis
How a tank is controlled: details of the Carden-Vickers Bren Gun carrier. A sectional drawing showing crew positions, layout and equipment. Date: 1941

Tank manoeuvres controlled by radio-telephony by G. H. Davis
Annotated illustration showing a company-commander broadcasting his orders to his section-commanders by wireless. The tank in the foreground is seen cut away diagrammatically to show the driver

Robot guns for British aircraft by G. H. Davis
Robot guns for British aircraft: remotely-controlled turrets. Enabling one gunner to direct fire from numerous different positions

Tippoo Tib (1837-1905)
Photograph of Tippoo Tib, then Chief of the Manyema, c.1887. His real name was Hamid ibn Mohammed and he was an African-Arab adventurer and warrior, who controlled a large section of Central Africa

John Hays Hammond Jnr
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND American inventor of radio- controlled torpedoes and other useful weapons of mass destruction. Son of engineer of the same name. Date: 1888 - 1965

Radio-controlled model sailplane designed and built by t?
Radio-controlled model sailplane designed and built by the Low Speed Aerodynamics Research Association at the 1952 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodeome on 15 June

Aircraft models on display at the Dorchester Hotel, Lond?
Aircraft models on display at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on 17 December 1953 at a Dinner honouring the 50th anniversary of the first powered controlled flights by the Wright brothers

WW2 - The Scales of Victory - Oil and Steel Output compared between the Free Labour of the British Commonwealth and the USA and the Slave Labour of Germany and her subject nations

Radioplane OQ-19A radio-controlled target demonstrated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, after returning to the ground by parachute

Radioplane OQ-19 radio-controlled target under test at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico

Radioplane TDD radio-controlled target of the US Navy

Radioplane OQ-3 radio-controlled target runs up its launcher at the Mojave, California, Naval Base

Radioplane OQ-3 radio-controlled target

Fairey Stooge - first British pilotless radio-controlled mis
Fairey Stooge, the first British, pilotless, radio-controlled missile. 1947. Date: 1947

Design drawing for system to raise and lower a captive balloon, controlled by four ropes forming a pyramidal shape and operated by winches on the ground below. Date between 1820 and 1870

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