Device Collection (page 9)

The Monarch 120 Call Connect System
A secretary or receptionist uses a new electronic post office telecommunications device/switchboard unit. A promotional photograph for the Monarch 120 Call Connect System

Two engineers using a measurement device
Two engineers use a precise measuring device to correctly ascertain the width of a circular metal ring. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Woman looks through sextant on board a boat
A woman wearing shorts and a beanie hat peers through a sextant on the deck of a boat on the Norfolk Broads in the 1930s

Breuillards device to assist walking
Dr. Charles Breuillards device to assist walking, basically a spring-loaded shoe insert, which aids the raising of the heel

Hancocks Acquatic Dress - a basin-type device for walking across deep rivers. The rather opn design rathers opens the possibility for flooding

Shooting birds from floating cycle
A sporting gentleman in top hat hunts ducks out in the middle of a lake thanks to his remarkable floating aquatic cycle - useability possibly determinate on the level of swell

Ice-cutting Machine
A late 19th century Steam-powered Ice-cutting Machine operating on the frozen exoanse of the St Lawrence River, Canada. Possibly one of historys more risky undertakings for an apparatus of this

Remarkable Life-saving Body Suit
A rather remarkable and very unusual life-saving body suit, comprising of flexible leg and domed upper section, complete with breathing tube and flotation ring

Portmanteau Buoy
A jolly Victorian gent from the days when Britain unquestionably ruled the waves doffs his hat as he floats proudly in his safety device de jour - his portmanteau buoy

Patent Office Curiosities and Ingenuities
Some Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office! These include a popelling device, a helmet-mounted gun, a submersible lifesaving apparatus, a cool pipe

New design for train snow plough
A new design for a railway snow plough - the unit on a non snow-bound track showing the interior workings

A portion of the electrical device for controlling mediums
Undated photograph showing a portion of the electrical device devised and demonstrated by Harry Price, for controlling mediums

Female Production Line Worker
A young woman on a factory production line assembles an electronic device. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Measuring the current of a large electronic device
A man measures the current running through a large electronic device, possibly an early computer or exchange. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The factory floor of an electronics manufacturer
Men at work on the busy factory floor of an electronics company, assembling complicated-looking devices. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Ups-a Daisy
A sensible provision now made on some of the nursery slopes, whereby the plump skier may, with the minimum of effort, regain his or her feet after a fall

1957 nuclear test: The men who dropped Britains H-bomb
Britains first nuclear weapons test took place on May 15th 1957, when a nuclear device was successfully exploded high in the air over Christmas Island in the Central Pacific

A Good Pull Up
The new electric self raising braces for those men who haven t time to fiddle about with the ordinary kind in the morning

True British Sportmanship under Difficulties
The Lightning Service. A Safety First device for lawn tennis in a thunderstorm Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Kept in Suspense
The New Magnetic Quicksand Deck Chair, a simple but reliable device which enables one to sit on the most treacherous sands with perfect immunity Please note

How to Hoodwink the Zeppelins
The latest device for disguising London from roving Zeppelins during World War One - ingenious umbrellas in the shape of various animals

A German telescopic field-periscope
A photograph of a German army field-periscope captured by the French army in 1916. The device, whose telescopic tube could be extended up to twenty-five meters in height

Water pump
An advertisement from 1893 for Marryweathers hand fire-engines, a device which doubles up as both a fire extinguisher and plant watering machine

Austrian device for rolling rocks
Austrian troops shown loading rocks onto wooden levers with the intention of rolling them down the mountain-side towards advancing Italians during World War I

The Grasshopper
A cross-bow device, nicknamed, La Sauterelle or The Grasshopper, used by French soldiers to throw bombs twenty to eighty metres from the trenches

Drying Machine
Several engravings illustrating an ingenious device for drying clothes; a forerunner of the fold-up telescopic clothes drier used instead of a line and pegs

Hair-drying device, 1928
A helmet used to dry and set hair, on display at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition at White City, 1928

Phillipss Toilet Aquarius
An advertisement from 1891 for Phillipss Toilet Aquarius, a new water container for wash stands where...no muscular effort required

Radar navigation at a glance- a new device
Diagrammatic illustration of radar navigation. This was designed by the Admiralty Research Lab (mainly by Mr.J. Home Dickson)

Curiosities from the Patent Office; Support for cigarettes
Illustration showing a device to be attached to the face for holding a cigar or cigarette adjacent to the mouth, which apparently prevented a careless smoker from laying down a lighted cigarette

News Room in the 1890S
A News Room, ..fitted with every device for quick receipt of intelligence

KING EDWARD VI 1537-1553
A fine portrait of Edward VI, King of England, dressed in half-body armour, paned trunk hose and brightly-coloured cannions

Mathematicians
Two scholars use a mathematical device, perhaps to help them in some surveying or astronomical calculations

Ufos / Books / Tollet
Pierre Tollet MEURTRE EN SOUCOUPE VOLANTE Popular French thriller featuring a flying saucer which turns out to be a secret military device

Petard Offensive / 17th C
Diagrams showing the attack offensive on a castle using a petard. A device filled with gunpowder and fastened to the gates, the danger lest the engineer be blown up too

Spinning Cotton / China
A chinese boy separate cotton thread using a bobbin and spinning device, with tension provided by a wooden spring tied to his back

Degen at Greenwich
The Aerial Man - the device is similar to Degen s, so this may be he - but did he actually fly over Greenwich Park ? We need to know more

GUSMAOs 1709 DEVICE
GUSMAOs PROJECT The magnetically steered barque of Bartolomeo Lourenco da Gusmao flew from the tower of the Casa da India to the Terreiro de Pace, Lisbon

TED SERIOS American thought photographer, holding the gizmo - the device he used to make his pictures

C17 Wood Turner / Woodcut
A wood turner uses a bow device to power his lathe

Florists device for fastening bouquets of flowers
A florists device for fastening bouquets of flowers

Robot servant polishing shoes
The servant of the future -- a robotic servant polishes a mans shoes while he sits reading in his armchair

Wild Man, Wild Woman
The Wild Man and his mate used in the printers device of Peter Treveris, German-born printer in London in the early 16th century

Gay Lussac Balloonflight
French scientist GAY-LUSSAC makes one of his ascents at Paris - the first instance of a manned aerial device being used for scientific purposes

STEAMSHIP PITTSBURGH
White Star liner on the Atlantic crossing known as The Electric Ship because she incorporates so many electrical devices Date: 1924

Multiple Autograph Tool
A starlet saves herself a lot of time and effort by using a device for signing several autographs at once

Artist Using Device
An artist makes use of a perspective device to help him paint a portrait

Ignitron Device C1936
The Westinghouse " Ignitron" tube was designed to register fast-moving objects

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