Improved Collection (page 2)

Advert for the Olva sleeping blanket, WW1
Advertisement for the Olva improved sleeping blanket, a great improvement on the ordinary sleeping bag. Invaluable for officers on active service

Advert for Arctic Lamps 1898
Decorative lamps with the old style burning shades and the new improved Artic lamp with shade support. 1898

Harry Emanuels new house of business, Brook Street
Improved street architecture: Mr Harry Emanuels new house of business in Brook Street, Hanover Square, London W1, in 1860. Date: 1860

Trevithicks Later Car
Trevithicks improved passenger- carrying steam carriage is kept going by a stoker on a little platform at the rear, or stern, of the vehicle. Date: 1803

Mrs A. B Marshalls ice breaker 1890s
Ice breaker with handheld lever, from Mrs A. B Marshall s, useful for hotels, confectioners, refreshments and cabins, butlers and pantries. Date: 1890s

WORKERS COTTAGE / 1857
Improved cottage dwelling for the labouring classes; the illustration shows dwellings for two families Date: 1857

Puffing Billy, Hedleys improved Wylam engine
Hedleys improved Wylam engine, known as Puffing Billy Date: 1813

Advert for Clarkes babies food warmer 1892
Clarkes " pyramid" nursery lamp food warmer and improved pannikin. 1892

John Dollond
JOHN DOLLOND English optician; improved telescopic lenses Date: 1706 - 1761

Advertisement, Improved Earth Closets and Commodes
Advertisement, O Brien, Thomas, & Co, Upper Thames Street, London -- Improved Earth Closets and Commodes (Toilets). 1898

Fairey Hamble Baby single-seat floatplane, a development on the Sopwith Baby formula via the addition of wing edge flaps. They were used as anti-submarine patrollers from the summer of 1917

Airco DH5 of No32 Sdn-back staggered wings improved pilots forward visibility

WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Poor Shops do good business with the arrival of troops of the International Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Date: circa 1905

Plan and side views of the improved riding rudder glider model. 1853. From Cayleys original notebook

The Boeing B-17D Flying Fortress had improved engines and increased weights over the B-17C

DAGUERRE, Louis-Jacques-Mande (1787-1851). French inventor that improved the photography. Litography

Adams Improved Omnibus
ADAMS IMPROVED OMNIBUS Date: 1847

Jacquard Loom
JACQUARD LOOM An improved version of the loom originally invented in 1804 Date: 1915

Moorheads improved graduated magnetic machines. Man showing two women a machine designed to send a magnetic force through the body to cure illness. Date c1848

To the right hon able the Earl of Hertford, ... this plate representing winding, warping with a new improved warping mill, and weaving; is... inscribed by... Wm. Hincks

Improved order of red men in freedom, friendship and charity. Date c1867 Dec. 10

Improved buckeye, with table rake reaper

Garricks Villa
The entrance to Hampton House, now known as Garricks Villa, home of the famous English actor DAVID GARRICK from 1754. Much improved by the ADAM brothers. Date: 18th century

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - section
A sectional view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - elevation
The elevation view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - ground plan

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - bed designs
Bed designs in Jeremy Benthams proposed panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The scheme, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Boat Invention / Lincoln
An improved system for buoying vessels, patented by Abraham Lincoln, future President of the United States. A model of the invention and facsimile drawings are shown here Date: 1849

HARRISONs NO 5
Harrisons number 5 timekeeper or chronometer for finding longitude (an improved version of the number 4). Date: circa 1760

Working mens homes, Spitalfields, East End of London
A block of working mens homes, near Middlesex Street, Spitalfields, East London. A number of organisations such as the Peabody Donation Fund

Machinery for Deep-Sea Soundings, 1861
Engraving showing a selection of improved machinery designed for deep sea soundings, 1861

The Metropolitan Sanitary Association Dinner, at Soyers Sy
The first public festival held by the Metropolitan Sanitary Association in 1851. With thousands of deaths from diseases such as cholera

Hawker Super Fury
The single-seat Fury fighter goes into service in 1931, and soon improved or modified models make their appearance, such as this Super Fury offering enhanced performance. Date: 1933

E Torricelli / Tomba
EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist; he improved the telescope and invented the barometer

Valentines Dustpan
Valentines improved dust pan can be operated with the foot, thus eliminating stooping and avoiding backache : in theory, anyway

E Torricelli / World Inven
EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist; he improved the telescope and invented the barometer Date: 1608 - 1647

Voisin-Delagrange Biplan
The Voisin-Delagrange III is the third to be built by this company in spring 1908; two side-curtains have been added to provide improved stability

Maxim Project 1890
Hiram Maxims improved multiplane flying machine - less cumbersome than its predecessors, but still a monstrous concoction of wings, wires and huge propellers

Open Air Dormitory
An open air dormitory near Arosa, Switzerland. In winter, children sleep in covered shelters without windows. Health and efficiency at school have improved

Rameses Iii, Pharaoh
RAMESES III, PHARAOH King of the 20th dynasty Improved social organisation and trade in Egypt

Gunpowder Invented
German monk BERTHOLD SCHWARZ is credited with the invention of gunpowder; though it certainly existed before his time, he may have improved its practical effectiveness

Improved Sow (Bewick)
A mixture of Chinese Black Swine with the larger British breed, this busy sow produced three litters (50 pigs) in ten months for Arthur Sherburn of county Durham

Benhams Improved
BENHAMs IMPROVED VENTILATING KITCHENER - roasts, bakes, boils and steams with one fire, and supplies a bath if required

Puffing Billy
Hedleys improved Wylam engine, known as Puffing Billy

Leicester Improved breed of sheet
The Leicester Improved breed of sheep

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