Development Collection (page 10)

Robert Adam Architecture
In 1774, Robert Adam completed the Adelphi development, created after 2 years abroad in Rome. No 7 Adam Street has well preserved Anthemion pilasters. Date: 1770s

Microcircuit Development
A metallurgist examines a microcircuit on the enlarging screen of a microscope at A.W.R.E. Aldermaston. Date: early 1970s

Experimenting with tank tracks, WW1
Experimenting with tank tracks during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1918

North Woolwich Docks
Eventide at George V Dock Dock, North Woolwich, east London, before the World War Two Blitz and the Docklands development. Date: 1930s

Dog with Jaw Splint
A fixation splint for a fractured jaw, the latest development. Date: circa 1960

Fields and Housing
A spacious field with a cow lying in the foreground and a housing development in the background. Date: circa 1960

Dr Ernest Walton with Cockcroft-Walton apparatus
Dr Ernest Ts Walton in the cabinet (marked E) into which the high-velocity protons emerge and strike the target of lithium

Dr J D Cockcroft at work in Cavendish Laboratory
Dr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft

Penrhyn tomb, Llandegai Church, North Wales
Detail of the Penrhyn tomb in Llandegai (or Llandygai) Church, near Bangor, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. The tomb was sculpted by Richard Westmacott for the first Lord

Cherubs on Penrhyn tomb, Llandegai Church, North Wales
A detail of cherubs splitting slate on the bas relief of the Penrhyn tomb in Llandegai (or Llandygai) Church, near Bangor, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

John Pounds, provider of education to poor children
John Pounds (1766-1839), a Portsmouth shoemaker, teacher and philanthropist, who from 1818 provided free basic education for the poorest children in the town, by teaching them reading

William and Isabella Quarrier
William Quarrier (1829-1903) with his wife Isabella. Quarrier, a successful shoemaker from Greenock, Renfrewshire, took an interest in the welfare of deprived street children

Salvation Army Labour Colony at Hadleigh, Essex
Entrance to the Salvation Armys labour colony at Hadleigh in Essex. Uniformed officers stand on duty. Founded in 1891 as a farming colony

Families helped to emigrate by the Salvation Army
A group of families on the platform of a large railway station, about to emigrate to Canada with the assistance of the Salvation Army. An Army band accompanies their departure

The language of the legs
The Language of the legs! - charting the development of a relationship through body language - from Timid to Ecstacy !

Construction of Townshend Court
Scene outside the newly constructed Townshend Court, a new block of flats in St Johns Wood, London. A large arrow-shaped sign invites people in to see the Show Flat. Date: 1930s

Digging up the tarmac on a road
A workman in a trilby hat digs up the tarmac surface of a road with a pneumatic drill

Northumberland House, London
The demolition of Northumberland House, Charing Cross, making way for a new road between Trafalgar Square and the river. View from the old garden

History of Old Glory
A montage of images charting the development of the American flag

Three Types of Bicycle, 1880
Engraving showing three ages in the development of the Bicycle: on left, The Dandy of pre-historic times - an early 19th century bicycle, without pedals, propelled by foot

Women railway porters
Photograph showing two women railway porters in 1915. As World War I progressed, women began to work in traditionally male jobs as part of the war effort

Papins Experiments
The experiments of Denis Papin with a steam cylinder lay the foundations of future steam- power development

The First Production Model of the De Havilland Albatross
Photograph of the first De Havilland Albatross delivered to the British Air Ministry in 1938. This four-engined airliner is pictured at Hatfield where it was to help in development trials for a

Demonstration of the Dracone, Southampton, 1958
Photograph of the Dracone, a flexible towed trailer for the transport of fluids lighter than water, Southampton, 19th September 1958

A Calculating machine
The control panel of the automatic sequence-controlled calculating machine at Manchester University; showing the monitor cathode-ray tube with Dr. T. Kilburn (left) and Professor F. C

Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine
Sketch of the Danish inventor Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine. The motor was a significant development from earlier electro-magnetic engines

Two drivers in the cab of the Saint Bartholomew
Development of high speed railway travel; two drivers in the cab of the Saint Bartholomew. On its initial run the locomotive arrived into Paddington three minutes early

Congo railway, station at Matadi
Station at Matadi, forming part of the new Congo railway from Matadi to Stanley Pool. The railway took nine years to complete, and in the first five years only 25 miles of track was constructed

Wonders of the telephone
Advertisement from 1925 by the Telephone Development Association illustrating the benefits of having a telephone to counteract that womanly feeling of loneliness

John Kay, Inventor
JOHN KAY of Bury, Lancashire inventor of the flying- shuttle, an important development in textile technology

Scene in Lemuria
Technological development in Lemuria was quite advanced, according to author Burtt : their warships and their architecture were not so very different from our own

ALFRED VAIL / 1807-1859
ALFRED VAIL American telegraphy pioneer. Financed and collaborated with Samuel Morse in the development of the telegraph

Spontaneous Geese -2
Barnacle Geese have been supposed to grow spontaneously from barnacle shells growing on anatiferous trees : their development is shown here figure 2 of 2

Electric Monorail 1909
That electricity will replace steam, and the monorail the twin tracks of conventional railways, seems an inevitable development

Alexander Karpinsky
ALEXANDER KARPINSKY Russian geologist whose work contributed greatly to the development of Soviet industry

St Pauls Precincts
The Precincts development around St. Pauls Cathedral, including Paternoster Square. Later deemed to be yet another ugly example of post World War Two architectural modernism

Learn from Flying Fish 1
If birds taught mankind to fly, what can the inventor learn from flying fish ? Combining the submarine and the aeroplane must surely be the next development

100 Yrs Business Travel
The development in business travel over 100 years: from stagecoach to aeroplane

Charing Cross 1877
Charing Cross before development, with the equestrian statue of the royal martyr, Charles I

Sir Henry Cole, English civil servant and administrator
Sir Henry Cole, English civil servant and inventor. He used a pseudonym, Felix Summerly, for design work and childrens books

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