Lift Collection (page 9)

Lift / Philadelphia
The elegantly equipped elevator of a Philadelphia hotel, during the exhibition

Hippy Hitchers
Two hippy hitch-hikers, thumbing a lift, but will anyone stop for them?

DE LESSEPS FREGATE
LA FREGATE of Robert De Lesseps is an elegant monoplane whose dipped wing- tips are designed to resemble those of a bird, containing the air for lift and stability

Hitch-Hiking 1970S
Women hitch-hikers on a roadside in Ipsos, Corfu, Greece

Turks Lift Rhodes Siege
The Turks lift their siege of Rhodes

Escaping from a Sub
Escaping from a crippled submarine is easy when you know how : you simply lift the convenient manhole cover, disregard the water pressure, and away you go !

Father Off to Work
Father in suit and bowler hat merrily goes off to work in his Anglia, and his children stand in their suburban driveway hoping for a lift

Folkestone / West Cliff
Folkestone, Kent: West Cliff

Frozen Food Shop / 1970S
People with trolleys lift the lids and peer into the chest freezers trying to decide which foods to choose. There is a good selection including Kosher meat and poultry

Upright Telephone 1897
This hand-held instrument replaces the pillar model, with a lift-off combined receiver and speaker, standard for all future models

Andrees Departure
Andree, with Strindberg and Fraenkel, leave Spitzbergen on their adventurous flight, hoping to reach the North Pole : they are depicted half an hour after lift-off

OLIVIERs AVISOL
Arsene Oliviers Avisol - an airship with wings - seeks to combine the lift of the aeroplanes wings with that of the airships body

Pescara Helicopter 1922
Argentinian designer Marchese Raul Pateras de Pescara builds several helicopters 1919 to 1924, tested in France : this 1922 model has four rotors to provide vertical lift

Cayleys Helicopter
CAYLEYs HELICOPTER-AEROPLANE With two lateral helicopter rotors to provide lift, and two propellers for propulsion, this is an astonishingly far- sighted proposal

Rocket Train Project
This is German inventor Max Valiers magnetic rail car project of 1932, but given a face-lift by the American publisher. It sounds great in principle, but

Menai Tubular Bridge
Construction of the main tube on the staging of Stephensons Britannia tubular bridge across the Menai Strait

Harts Continuous Lift-1
The continuous lift system of M.Hart. (pic 1 of 2)

Passenger Lift
This 170-metre passenger lift enables tourists to ascend the Burgenstock, on the Vierwaldstallersee, without the effort of climbing

Niederfinow Lift - 2
The barge lift at Niederfinow - the worlds largest of its kind

LAZY-TONGS FIRE-ESCAPE
Lazy-tongs fire escape, a novel idea in which a sliding stage is mounted on an extending trellis-work frame or support

Crosspatch / Greenaway
Crosspatch, lift the latch, Sit by the fire and spin; Take a cup and drink it up, then call your neighbours in

Transport / Docks / Bombay
A ship moored in the hydraulic-lift floating dock on Hog Island, at the head of Bombay Harbour, India

Cleaning Life Buoys
Using a huge crane to lift life buoys out of the River Thames for cleaning

Thumbing a Lift
A young man hitch hiker, thumbs a lift from a Denis McCarthy lorry

Otis Hydraulic Lift
Two ladies bravely enter an OTIS hydraulic lift, which the operator will cause to descend by hauling on the rope, the weight of the lift being counterbalanced with water

Witches in Flight
A young witch gets a lift on the broom of her older companion as they leave for the Sabbat

Futuristic visit by air cab
Paying a futuristic visit by air cab -- a lady is received by the concierge on the roof of an apartment building while the cab hovers alongside

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