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Clothes fumigation at Coldbath Fields PrisonPrisoners clothes being fumigated in a heated cabinet at Coldbath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell. Date: 1862
Good Coffee TipThe essence of good coffee is keeping it hot, so stand the coffee jug in a basin of hot water, put the grounds in the jug, pour on boiling water and stand it by the heated stove. Date: 1930s
Kitchen and inmates, Portland Prison, DorsetA kitchen or cook-house at Portland Prison, Dorset. Inmates in arrow-patterned uniforms stand in front of a row of large steam-heated cooking coppers
Cairo, Egypt - Mobile street hot food vendorA mobile hot food vendor sells his steaming wares in Cairo, Egypt
Tempering a long metal bar in an industrial furnace. The bar was heated prior to hammering and shaping to make railway rails. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Metal being tempered in a furnace prior to shapingA metalworker tempers a piece of metal in a furnace, while another observes using a viewing plate to protect his eyes from the light emanating from the furnace core. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Boys Club, food preparation 1932Two older boys from a Boys Club help with food preparation. Big pots of food need to be heated and stirred over an open fire whilst a kettle comes to the boil
The Floating Swimming Bath, Charing Cross, London, 1875Engraving showing the floating swimming bath in the River Thames at Charing Cross, London, 1875. The swimming bath drew its water from the Thames, then cleaned and heated it
Hospital saloon on the London and North Western RailwaysA hospital on wheels, the invalid saloons on the London and North Western Railway. Special thick flooring was used to deaden the vibrations and noise from the patient
Hatmaking 1750Hatmakers at work round their kettle - a workbench placed over a heated stove to make the materials easier to work
Slings / Heated StonesUsing slings with heated stones
Chimneysweep (Petherick)London characters: the CHIMNEY SWEEP walks the streets with his brushes, offering his services - for every home is heated with coal fires which clog the chimneys with soot
Ww1 / Cooling Gun BarrelA German soldier puts wet rags over an over-heated artillery gun barrel to cool it down
Ordeal by Redhot MetalORDEAL BY RED-HOT METAL The suspect is required to grasp a bar of heated metal - if he can hold it, he is innocent, if not, not
Electric WeldingA welder uses an electric arc- welding tool to join the metal parts of a steel structure. The parts are heated to white heat and metal added to make the join
Hatters at WorkHatters at work round their kettle, a heated workbench, each occupied with a different stage of manufacture. Some 60, 000 beaver furs were bought from Canada every year
Stone Age BoatmakingStone Age man builds one of the first boats, using heated stones to hollow out a log
Patrick Henry speaking against the Stamp ActPatrick Henry, in the Virginia House of Burgesses, introduces radical resolutions opposing the Stamp Act, warning King George III that he could go the way of Caesar and Charles I
Tea CultivationChina : second stage of drying, in heated shallow pans