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Charles Balloon LandsThe unmanned gas-filled balloon flies from the Champ de Mars, Paris, to Gonzesse, where it is attacked by peasants who know a device of the Devil when they see one. Date: 27 August 1783
De Groofs Fatal CrashDE GROOFs device is launched from a balloon over Cremorne Gardens, London. Unfortunately, something goes terribly wrong, and he plunges fatally to the ground. Date: 9 July 1874
Air-Sea Kite DeviceA combination of raft and kite, this device should be able to take you anywhere so long as theres a wind and that its blowing in the direction you want to go. Date: circa 1890
Advert for J. W Rowe & Co. electrical massage apparatus 1902Heath in every home! by using Rogers consoidated electrical massage and medical apparatus. Claims to cures lots of alliaments. 1902
William BrasseyWILLIAM BRASSEY Son of the railway engineer Thomas Brassey Date: -
Electrical gold finderExperiments with an electrical device to find gold underground. Date: 1892
Reynaud Projecting ZootropeReynauds Projecting Zootrope, a very sophisticated device, but also, doomed to be made obsolete by the praxinoscope and even more so by the first cinematograph projects. Date: 1890
Crests of some early Archbishops of CanterburyCrests of early Archbishops of Canterbury - (from top left): Thomas Becket (circa 1119 1170), Henry Chichele (also Checheley) (circa 13641443), John de Stratford (circa 1275-1348)
Children looking into a peep box device, c.1810. Date: C.1810
Advert for Mme Duchatellier nose straightening 1908A device for modifying your nose, by placing a torture device on your nose with adjustive bolts, all for the name of vanity. 1908
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
The Duke of Edinburgh at the Road Research LaboratoryPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, examining the motor-cycle combination fitted with devices for recording aspects of road surfaces, when he toured the Road Research laboratory in Harmondsworth
Book Plate - Chelsea Public LibraryBook Plate - Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea Public Library - The True university of these days is a collection of books. Date: 1903
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Crackers dog show inventions (with the authors apologies to Heath Robinson). Smoothing the Scotch Collie, Pampering the Pom, and Improving the Kerry Blues Beard
Water works, machines for raising water, 19th century.. Water works, machines for raising water, water bellows, Chremnitz fountain, and Mr John Whitehursts device. Copperplate engraving by W
Unknown Device, England. Date: 1900s
Unmanned boat steered by light, war deviceAn unmanned boat steered by light: a 25, 000 war device. Tested during the First World War before Lord Fisher and Mr Balfour on Penn Pond in Richmond Park
Rome, Italy - The Mammertine PrisonBlack and white. Low-ceilinged room with a carving and mantlepiece to one side. There is a hole in the floor with a low ridge around it (possibly a well or some kind of drainage device?)
Serving warmed beer, Berlin, GermanyA bartender serving a customer with a warmed glass of beer, using a new electrical device, in Berlin, Germany. Date: circa 1930
Suffragette Flora Drummond Stanhope ToyA Stanhope or optical toy, a device which allows the viewing of microphotographs without using a microscope. The stanhope was invented in 1857 by Rene Dagron, a French photographer
The town hall carillon of Levallois-Perret, 1898The town hall carillon of Levallois-Perret, Paris. Date: 1898
Warner and sons patent chiming machineMessers J. Warner and sons patent chiming machine, by which a lad entirely unaccustomed to music may chime a whole peal.See picture 10837677 for a close up of a similar chiming machine
Aynsley China Model of a Bell Tent - WWIAynsley China Model of a Bell Tent with the Battle Honours and Device of the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys).Number 27, Registered Number 444566. Commemorative Ware
Aynsley China Model of a large Shell - WWIAynsley China Model of a large Shell, inscribed and bearing the Regimental device of the 4th Dragoon Guards. Registered Number 442388. Commemorative Ware
A life bag - life saving device, WW1An ingenious invention by a young Norwegian, Mr John L. Edmund to enable passengers on board ships wrecked or torpedoed to keep afloat until the arrival of help
Water-bottle rotary by W H RobinsonWater-bottle rotary for warming the legs of scottish soldiers after a night in the trenches. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans
Comfort of motorists in climbing hills by W H RobinsonBy fixing telescopic, hand operated device to the back wheel, the motorist can keep his car at all times on an even keel, when ascending up steep hills. Date: 1919
How to avoid the submarine pirate by G. H. DavisHow to avoid the submarine pirate during the First World War. The advantage of showing a clean pair of heels and other devices for checkmating the submarine. Date: 1915
Mr Asquith visiting the Western Front, WW1The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, visiting the Western Front during World War One. He is being shown a bomb dropping device on an aeroplane. Date: circa 1916
Device fitted to larger submarines by G. H. DavisIn response to the accident experienced by the British A7 submarine, a new device is fitted to all the larger submarines, allowing the men inside to put on their diving costumes
How the busiest junction in England is worked: electrical devices which protect the passenger from danger on the District Railway. Showing the newly completed Earls Court underground station, London
Suggested life-saving devices at sea by G. H. DavisFor those in peril on the sea: suggested life-saving devices at sea. Above: a proposed life raft for liners which could be fitted into the stern quarters
Anti-invasion ring of fire by G. H. DavisBritains wall of flame: the ordeal by fire prepared for German invaders on sea, land, and in the air. Showing the details and layout of an anti-invasion ring of fire: devices for converting beaches
Water distiller for lifeboats by G. H. DavisFresh water from the sea: a simple distiller for lifeboats. The K.M. Distiller, producing fresh water and hot drinks, and other life-saving devices for castaways, in use during the Second World War
New instrument of total war by G. H. DavisA new instrument of total war: British and German troop carriers. Invasion by parachute armies: Germans improve on a Soviet device. 1940
Captain Robert Hook, lifeboatmanCoxswain Robert William Hook (1828 -1911) of the Lowestoft lifeboat Samuel Plimsoll, the saviour of more than 200 lives. Pictured here at Lowestoft harbour entrance in 1883, in a heroic pose
Apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreckVarious apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck. A Dennetts rocket line is shown both in action and arranged for firing, as well as and the landing of a crew using the breeches buoy
Refuelling aloft by G. H. DavisRefuelling aloft -- a device which enables transatlantic flying boats to carry a much increased payload. How Imperial Airways transatlantic flying boats are refuelled in the air
New device for torpedoed tankers by G. H. DavisSaved by compressed air: a new device for torpedoed tankers. How tankers holed by U-boat torpedoes during the Second World War can remain afloat by using compressed air. Date: 1943
Aeroplanes of 1918Latest aeroplanes of 1918. Bristol was a general-purpose military aircraft, a two-seater biplane, Handley Page giant bombdropper
Primitive ox-pulled threshing deviceSimple threshing device pulled by a team of oxen. Possibly in India (?). Date: circa 1910s
Silhouette deviceA safe and convenient machine to draw silhouettes, design by E Lorsay after Lavater. The subject sits on a seat, illuminated by a candle flame; the artist can then trace the shadow of their profile
Transatlantic flight by G. H. DavisThe transatlantic flight: the type of British machine which will attempt it. Top: dropping the chassis at the moment of setting out -- a daring device
The Water Crawl Widgeon by Heath RobinsonThe " Water Crawl" Widgeon - bluffing device on the Norfolk jungle. Another mind-boggling idea from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson
The Ice Hole Clam Spearer by Heath RobinsonAn ingenious, though perhaps rather complicated device to catch clams through ice in the frozen north, part of a series of drawings in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News entitled
Modern methods of sea rescue by G. H. DavisModern methods of sea rescue during the Second World War: day and night detection devices. Date: 1941
Aircraft Anti-Fog Device by G H DavisA diagram explaining the wireless system used to guide aeroplanes using charged cables. The system was designed to help planes land in their aerodromes by leading pilots to the landing straight
Magnetic mine by G. H. DavisThe German magnetic mine: the first diagrams of its working and the methods by which it is laid. Diagrams showing the delicate electrical mechanism which reacts to the weak magnetic field set up by a
