Flapping Collection

Frost Ornithopter
Mr Edward Purkis with a Frost Ornithopter in 1877 Date: 1877

R M Bolstons Large Model Ornithopter in 1907 Date: 1907

Swans in the Lake
Oil painting showing five swans. One of them is frantically flapping their wings and starting to take off. Date: circa 1929

Flying Machine Inventor Unknown 1877 1877

Mr E Wilson with His Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter L?
Mr E Wilson with His Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter Launched from the 160 Foot High Watkin Tower, Wembley Park, London, UK in 1905 Date: 1905

Balston Ornithopter Around 1908 in the UK Date: 1908

Mr E Wilson with Two Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopters ?
Mr E Wilson with Two Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopters Around 1905 Date: 1905

John Lampert (Age 33) & His Wife Sylvia (31) During Pre-?
John Lampert (Age 33) & His Wife Sylvia (31) During Pre-Flight Checks with His Man Powered Flexible Mambrane Variable Geometry Ornithopter at Bishops Rise, Hatfield, UK in 1975 Date: 1975

Mr E Wilson with a Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter Sus?
Mr E Wilson with a Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter Suspended from a Specially Erected Scaffold Launch Tower, Caption Reads

Major Bfs Baden Powell and His Flying Wing Ornithopter i?
Major Bfs Baden Powell and His Flying Wing Ornithopter in the Mid to Late 1890S Date: 1890s

Mr Dubois with His Ornithopter at the Concours Lepine, F?
Mr Dubois with His Ornithopter at the Concours Lepine, France in the 1930S Date: 1930s

Warship trailing a Fog Buoy, 1912
Photograph of a British warship trailing a fog buoy. When a group of warships travelling line ahead entered fog they would stream fog buoys

Animals at a French Zoo - The Winner - One white bird wings flapping, one other bird lying on ground. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Date: circa 1900

Cheery Families - Master Trim the Tailors Son. 1890s

Green parrot on a Christmas card, sitting on a branch. Date: circa 1890s

Two cats running from a bird on a New Year card
Victory -- two cats in the snow, running from a bird who has been eating food from a plate on a New Year card. They have managed to steal some of the food from under him. Date: circa 1890s

Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis). Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, Africa

Ground Hornbill - Landing on tree (Bucorvus leadbeateri). Moremi - Okavango Delta - Savuti - Botswana - Africa. Latin formerly Bucorvus cafer

Silhouette of a large bird on a rock, flapping its wings. Date: 20th century

Two cottages in a bleak landscape, Isle of Lewis
Two rustic cottages in a bleak landscape, with washing flapping on a clothes line, at Timsgarry, Uig, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Chocolate box design, red parrots
Chocolate box design, featuring red parrots on branches. Date: 20th century

A larger model of the flapping wing machine. Hargrave Slide 33

Steam engine operating flapping wings. Hargrave Slide 32

Carrier pigeons at Sorrus, France, WW1
Carrier pigeons enjoying a bath in a baking tin full of water at Sorrus, France, during the First World War. Date: 2 June 1918

Watercolour sketch with buildings and boat
A watercolour sketch with buildings, washing drying on a line, and a boat

Venus Airship
The innovative people of Venus develop this birdlike man- powered airship which moves by flapping its wings. Date: 1942

Twin puppies and washing line
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, are attracted to a row of clothes flapping on the washing line

Poster; One Flag
ONE FLAG IS FLAPPING AMONG THE STARS support for the United Nations

First Flying Device
THE FIRST FLYING DEVICE a model dove was made from wood by Archytas of Tarento, (428-347 BC) it was sustained by gas and had flapping wings

Pretending Ghost
A man dresses up as an archetypal ghost and stands in a graveyard flapping his drapes, alarming passers-by

Le Besniers Device
LE BESNIER, of Sable, France, could not rise from the ground, but launched from a height could cross a river with his flapping paddles

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