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Female jockeys riding gentlemen like horses
Two women jockeys with riding crops, spur on their steeds - not horses, but top-hatted and tailed gentlemen who wear bridles in their mouths

Hensons Aerial Steam Carriage
The Aerial Steam Carriage -- side view of the main frame, and plan of the controlling tail. This flying machine was patented by William Samuel Henson (1812-1888) and John Stringfellow (1799-1883)

Hoisting Hops
Hoisting pokes of hops onto a drying platform. Despite modern advances such as mechanical hop presses, horses were still being used for hoisting the pokes (sacks). Date: 1930s

Materialisation of Geordie, controlling spirit of Annie Fairlamb (later Mrs J B Mellon, 1850-1938). He was described as a tall Scotsman who had lived most of his life in Newcastle. Date: 19th century

The method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediums
Undated photograph showing the method of linking up hands and feet of sitting mediums by means of electrical control. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into

Abandoned rural branch line signal box, Worcestershire, England. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Cartoon, Honourable Ratio
Honourable Ratio: or, Naval Conversationsin London. Ratio 5:5:3, between Great Britain, United States of America and Japan. Date: 1934

Ruins of Goodrich Castle, Goodrich, Herefordshire
Ruins of Goodrich Castle, a Norman medieval castle north of the village of Goodrich in Herefordshire, England, controlling a key location between Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye. Date: circa 1910s

The Empress Dowager Cixi (Tzu-Hsi)
L Dorado. The Empress Dowager Cixi (Tzu-Hsi) (1835-1908) causing trouble for a (representation of) the Chinese Emperor. Date: 1900

The River Thames above the Weir, Boulter's Lock, Maidenhead, Berkshire. The weir is some way upstream of the lock, at the northern end of Ray Mill Island. Date: 1932

Harnessing the atom by G. H. Davis
The force which can move mountains: harnessing the atom to vast projects for the benefit of mankind. Showing how the use of atomic explosives could be used on ambitious engineering works

On 13th November 1887 a demonstration organised by the Social Democratic Federation and the Irish National League in Trafalgar Square in London turned into a riot after police

Rational Gadgets For Your Coupons by William Heath Robinson
Customers are put on scales to determine how much butter they are entitled to, the heavier the person is, the more butter they are given. Date: 1940

Traffic Signals, by H. M. Bateman
Policeman: Now, sir. Come along. You've been waiting here for the last ten minutes. What's the matter? Reveller: Conshtable, I can't poshibly proceed till that light goes green

Bank of England, City of London
Looking down Threadneedle Street at the Bank of England. Date: 1895

Looking down Threadneedle Street at the Bank of England. Date: 1901

Traffic Policeman directing the traffic at Parliament Street, London. Date: circa 1930

Comic postcard, Going to the seaside Date: 20th century

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

Treaty of San Stefano, signing for peace treaty between Turkey and Russia, cartoon showing Bismarck, Minister President of Prussia at the time trying to control the winds " confound the easterly

Thai paratroop trainee practising control of the parachute
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 07:The practice of controlling the chute while floating in the air. -Signature

Early Model Automobile Date: 1950

Pasadena, California, USA - Devils Gate Dam, Arroyo Seco Date: 1946

Advertisement for Petermans Cockroach and Beetle Food - certified by Drs. Hassall and Clayton, Analytical Chemists, not a POISON to Children or Pet Animals, but DEATH to cockroaches and beetles

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

Germany Reoccupiers Saar
The region of the Saar votes overwhelmingly in a plebiscite to return to Germany - it had been administered by the League of Nations since 1919, the french controlling mines. Date: 1935

Woman with alligator, Chipperfields Circus
Woman with an alligator in a cage, a Chipperfields Circus act. Date: circa 1964

Training volunteers of an industrial works
Industrial works fire brigade firefighters being instructed in the use of a hose line and the correct method of controlling a branch (jet of water)

Palace of Prince George - Chania, Crete. Although much of modern Greece had been independent since the 1820s, Crete remained in Ottoman hands

Indian Snake Carmer - Singapore, Malaysia. Date: circa 1920s

The Barretts of Wimpole Street, by Rudolf Besier, production by Prince Littler. First produced at the Malvern Festival, August 1930, then at the Queens Theatre, London, September 1930

Snake Charmer - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1920s

Proclamation of King George V - Children in the crowd - May, 1910. Date: 1910

London Policemans First Day at Point Duty
With The Force - London Policemans First Day at Point Duty. Date: 1907

Fantastic Adventures - War of the Giant Apes by Alexander Blade. A giant ape uses a boulder to attack a truck with a scared man in it

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

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

Policeman controlling traffic, Oxford Street, London
Policeman controlling traffic, Oxford Street (at St Christophers Place), London, with a 23 bus behind him. The bus carries an advertisement for a film, Name the Man. Date: 1924

C Vanderbilt - Seabald
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 - 1877) Powerful 19th century rail and shipping magnate. Gained a controlling interest in numerous provincial railroads

Illustration, girl riding with hands in pockets
Illustration, a girl riding Jerry with her hands in her pockets, controlling the pony just with her legs. Date: 1932

WW1 - Hindenburg in the saddle
WW1 - Depicting Paul Von Hindeburgs (1847 - 1934), Germanys Chief of the General Staff, commanding loyal co-operation from the Austrian armies on the Eastern Front

WW1 - Restive allies - The central powers not to happy
WW1 - A comedic scenerio depicting Austrias and Turkeys roles in the war as part of the central power. The illustration represents the German Kaiser as an Ancient Roman in his chariot

Il Colosso di Rodi. Allegory of the British Empire as the Colossus of Rhodes monitoring and controlling the passage of the Bosphorus

Traffic control for pedestrian crossings
Traffic control by light-ray : the first system of its kind. A new method of controlling road traffic by beams of light broken by pedestrian and vehicles

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

The General Strike - Sphere emergency number
Front cover of The Sphere emergency number issued during the General Strike. Photograph shows mounted police controlling crowds at Elephant and Castle in South London

Earl of Halsbury and Erskine try to control Irish MP Tanner
The Story of Rackety Tanner (cont.). Hardinge Stanley Giffard, The Earl of Halsbury (1823-1921) - Three times Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and Sir Henry David Erskine (1838-1921)

Traffic Tower, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street looking North, NYC
Traffic Tower, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street looking North, New York City, NY, USA. Date: 1920s

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