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Pompeii, Italy, School of GladiatorsVintage 19th century photograph: Pompeii, Italy, School of Gladiators
Japan c. 1880s - Naniwabashi, steel bridge Osaka, c. 1890Vintage 19th century photograph: Japan c.1880s - Naniwabashi, steel bridge Osaka, c.1890
Japan c. 1880s - Tenjinbashi steel bridge at OasakaVintage 19th century photograph: Japan c.1880s - Tenjinbashi steel bridge at Oasaka, c.1890
East River Bridge, Manhattan, New York, c. 1890 s19th century vintage photograph - East River Bridge, New York, c.1890 s
Young woman in carrying chair, kago, Japan, with portersLate 19th century photograph: Young woman in carrying chair, kago, Japan, with porters
France c. 1890 - large telescope in the Nice ObservatoryVintage 19th century photograph: France c.1890 - large telescope in the Nice Observatory
Bridge of Sighs, Venice, Italy, with gondolaVintage 19th century photograph: Bridge of Sighs, Venice, Italy, with gondola
Firenze, Florence, Italy - Ponte Vecchio over the River ArnoVintage 19th century photograph: Firenze, Florence, Italy - Ponte Vecchio over the River Arno
Palace of the Bey, La Marsa, TunisiaVintage 19th century photograph: Palace of the Bey, La Marsa, Tunisia
Boatmen on the Bosphorous, Istanbul, TurkeyVintage 19th century photograph - boatmen on the Bosphorous, Constantinople, Istanbul, Turkey
World War II Deshimag shipyard Germany 1945World War II vintage photograph - Deshimag shipyard and submarine after capture, Germany 1945
Threshing rice grains, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Elevated railway or El Train at 110th Street New YorkCurve on the elevated railway or El Train at 110th Street New York. Vintage 19th century photograph
World War II - fighting in the streets of Cologne GermanyVintage photograph World War II - fighting in the streets of Cologne Germany, near the cathedral, American tank hit by a shell
Processing tobacco leaves, studio scene, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Ships loading at wharf Outer Harbour, Australia, c. 1900-1910Vintage photograph: Ships loading at a wharf on the Outer Harbour, Adelaide Australia, c.1900-1910
Bridge over creek looking along the Bund, Shanghai, ChinaBridge over the creek looking along the Bund, Shanghai, China
View along the waterfront Messina, Sicily ItalyVintage 19th century photograph: View along the waterfron with ship tied up in the harbour, Messina, Sicily Italy
Harvesting the rice crop in Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Spinning silk threads, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Water wheel, mill wheel on a Japanese farm. Vintage 19th century photograph
Shinsai Bashi steel bridge at Osaka. Vintage 19th century photograph
Chinese peasants using a device with bucket and weight to irrigate the land. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient
18th century surgeon Jean Louis Petits screw-type18th century surgeon Jean Louis Petits screw tourniquet for compressing blood vessels: tourniquet device 1, double band to adjust the tourniquet 2, compress in chamois leather 3 and ball bearing 4
The City Dragon - City of London - pedestal marking borough boundary. Date: circa 1940s
Water-induced restDesigned to cause sleep, a device providing a continual flow of water across the forehead of a person suffering from insomnia
Speedometer for Motor Cars 1910Patent machine that recorded the pace of a motor car by S. Smith & Sons, showing at the Olympia Motor Show. Date: 1910
Beechcraft F-2-BHUnited States Army Air Corps - Beechcraft F-2-BH. (The 14 F-2s were given the msn 340 to 353 and serial numbers 40-682 to 40-695)
Captain Scott, whose new expedition to the South Pole had just been announced in 1909, declares the motor sledge to be an invaluable adjunct to ponies and dogs on Polar expeditions
Patent Electropathic Battery Belt for men and women
A device used to float messages down the Seine and out of the city. Date: 1870 / 1A device used to float messages down the Seine and out of the city. Date: 1870/1
Crushing Device Date: 1880
Early Recording Machine
Loose page from a scrapbook of crests and heraldryLoose page from a former scrapbook of crests and heraldry featuring family crests, coats of arms and many devices, shields, monograms and mottos! Date: late 19th century
Jacquard Apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham 1843Jacquard punched coded card apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham. The arrangement of the holes in successive cards determined the pattern produced in the lace-making machine to which
Hundred Years War, storming a fortSiege of a castle, in the Hundred Years War. Date: circa 1380s
SPECIAL THIMBLEA boon to all bachelors who sew, this simple device, fitted to a thimble, makes it impossible to lose the needle, and saves time, temper and trouble. Date: 1930s
HOME MADE CLOTHES RACKA home-made drying rack, made from coat hangers and light rods, an ingenious way of drying underwear etc. in the days before tumbledryers. Date: 1930s
Fashion - Dog 1865Blue: demi-train, silk cord at hem, neck & as a device to loop up floating ribbon ends. Grey & purple: button & flat ribbon trim down the front & in points at the hem. Date: 1865
BORELLOS SWIM DEVICEBorellos device gives the swimmer the benefit of an airbag and webbed feet. Date: 1683
REFRACTION DEMONSTRATEDA man uses a handheld device to study refraction. Date: 19th century
TURNING A WINDLASSSix men turning a windlass, a mechanical device with a horizontal axis for hauling or hoisting Date: 1803
Magnesium flash 1865Magnesium flash demonstrated at Birmingham : this device will, it is claimed, enable photographers to operate even when the ambient light is inadequate Date: 1865
HAIL-FIGHTING MACHINEDupuis-Delcourt proposes this device - the electro- subtracteur - which, he tells us, will prevent hailstorms by electrically subtracting ice from the stormclouds. Maybe. Date: 1850
MESASURE WEIGHT OF AIRBernouillis device for measuring the weight of air Date: 1685
ELECTRIC SHOCK MACHINEPut a sou in the slot, and you can give yourself an electric shock, thanks to this device thoughtfully installed on the boulevard de Sebastopol, Paris Date: 1889
LIPPERSHEY TELESCOPEDutch astronomer Hans Lippershey demonstrates his optical device which anticipates the telescope Date: 1609
Jay-Walker ScoopDevice for picking-up jay- walkers in the street; after being sucked in, they find themselves inside a treadmill condemned to keep running... Date: 1927
