Future Collection (page 7)

Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Saturn
An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Saturn. The unstable surface would be impracticable except for light, insect-like life forms who would have to breathe a gaseous atmosphere. Date: 1939

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Neptune
The imaginary inhabitants of the planet Neptune have to put up with an unstable surface which is largely liquid, a dense atmosphere, very high gravity, and chemical storms. Date: 1940

Fantastic Adventures scifi magazine cover - The Golden Princess
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1940 featuring The Golden Princess, story by Robert Moore Williams. A magical fantasy woman hypnotises two men. Date: 1940

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and a fortune teller, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm goes to consult a fortune teller to find out when the war will end. Date: 1916

BELLA, Gabriele (1740-1782). The cantata of the orphans for the Dukes of the North. ca. 1782. Concert at the Casino dei Filarmonici during the visit in 1782 of the Count Paul Petrovich

ENDARA, Carlos Manuel (1827 - 1924). The Republic of Ecuador in 1860 foretold. 1900. Eloy Alfaro (with hat), future prime minister

Flights into the Future - dinosaurs on Venus?
Dinosaurs pictured as possible inhabitants of the planet Venus in a book on the possibilities of space travel. Date: 1943

Community heating by G. H. Davis
Community heating: a system which keeps an entire town warm and abolishes household drudgery. A central power station provides a day

Boys Crabbing
Three boys in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England - skippers of the future, fishing for crabs from the pier of the Corporation Bridge across the River Freshney. Date: 1950s

Hanoi, Vietnam - A blind street fortune-teller predicting future fortunes... Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Kensitas Cigarettes, 1929
Its better to be fit than fat Kensitas Cigarettes marketed as a appetite suppressant in 1929, recommending substituting snacks between meals with a cigarette instead

Royal Wedding 1947 - at Clydebank before wedding
Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring photographs of Princess Elizabeth and her future husband, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown

Sundays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Poster, Think of Tomorrow, Buy War Bonds Today. Showing two soldiers looking at a photograph of a woman and child. 1940s

Priests consulting the omens in Classical Rome

Scout Plane for Warships
An aeroplane acts as a scout for warships Date: 1913

The Crystal by Arild Rosenkrantz
A staring woman looks into the future with her crystal ball

The Oracle by Charles Robinson
Colourful image of a party reveller holding a crystal ball and a jester toy

Princess Victoria of Wales with her nephews
Princess Victoria of Wales (1868-1935) with her nephews, Edward (the future King Edward VIII), Albert (the future King George VI) and Henry (later the Duke of Gloucester) in 1904

The first Illustrated London News
Front cover of the very first copy of the Illustrated London News, published May 14th, 1842. Founded by Herbert Ingram, who anticipated demand for a newspaper containing illustrations

Lost in Time, Thrilling Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
LOST IN TIME. Time travel to a city of the future

The Scarlet Woman and the Great Beast
Scene from The Apocalypse, depicting The Scarlet Woman and the Great Beast

Sideric Pendulum
With the Sideric Pendulum you can learn the future and do all sorts of other amazing things

Reading Subconscious
In Ray Avery Myers fiction Into the subconscious, future scientists develop machines that read the subconscious mind and project its thoughts as images

Stratospheric Flight
These two aviators are preparing for a flight in the stratosphere, for which they will need the equivalent of divers suits to withstand the lack of breathable air

Airborne Submarine
Launching a Mini-Submarine from the Air

Deep Sea Fishing
Deep-Sea Fishing with a Bathyscaph

Flying Tank
Tank Equipped with Retractable Wings

Atomic Motor Race
Motor Racing with Atom-Powered Vehicles

Atomic Automobile
Automobile Driven by Atomic Power

Passenger Rocketship
Passenger-Carrying Space Rocket

Air Wonder Stories scfi magazine cover, Drying up a lake
THE THUNDERER (A H Johnson) The Thunderer (a typical mad scientist) dries up a lake to demonstrate what he can do if his demands are not met

Grand Lama consulted on the fate of a child, Tibet, taken from Johann Grueber, an Austrian Jesuit missionary and astronomer who visited China and Tibet in the 1650s. circa 1750

The Fortune Teller by J. R. Skelton
Four girls sit by the fire in their nightwear as one of them predicts the future - perhaps who they will marry - by consulting some playing cards. Date: 1914

When we go to the moon by rocket - 1929 vision of space
A 1929 impression of space exploration with a a rocket hovering over the lunar surface. Forty years later, this dream would become a reality. Date: 1929

The Incredible Shape of Things to Come: The Hovercraft
Incredible Shape of Things to Come: The Hovercraft, Which, Supported on a " Cushion" of Air, is Designed to Carry 1000 Passengers over Land or Sea

The Modern Boy featuring the Flying Boy
Front cover of The Modern Boy magazine featuring a boy using wings to fly his way to school. Inside the publication, there is a suggestion that before long

Warfare in the future - as predicted in 1932
An impression of what warfare might look like in 2032, as predicted by The Modern Boy magazine in 1932. It suggests that invading troops might attack via a shell

Victorian scrap - MP of the future
Victorian scrap - Political Types - MP of the Future. late 19th century

Invitation card, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, Tunbridge Wells Branch, for a meeting with Mrs [Grace] Lankester, Hon

The Prophet of St Paul s
The Prophet of St Pauls -- a woman visits a fortune teller. 19th century

The Hope of the House by Balliol Salmon - A touching sentimental Christmas portrait of couple with their young daughter - sharing a heartfelt family embrace below the mistletoe. Date: 1912

Victorian Scrap - Political Types - MP of the Future. late 19th century

Fox Under the Hill, site of Hotel Cecil, London
The Fox Under the Hill, a tavern off The Strand, London, future site of the Hotel Cecil, a grand hotel built in the 1890s. late 19th century

Cow & Gate Snap - Smiler the future miler. circa 1930s

The Vision of St John - Revelation 10. circa 1688

The seven golden candlesticks - Revelation 1. circa 1688

The ruin of Babylon - Revelation 18. circa 1688

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