Machine Collection (page 19)

Biomedical centre, London -- a patient in a locked room listens to something through headphones while a woman operates a machine in the room beyond. Date: 1972

Biomedical centre, London -- a woman operates a machine while a patient in a locked room listens to something through headphones. Date: 1972

Guglielmo Marconi reading a wireless telegraph message on tape from a across the Atlantic, on board the Italian Cruiser, Carlo Alberto. Date: 1902

It took two men several hours three times a week to wind up the Clock Tower (Elizabeth Tower), so Londoners could get an accurate time. Date: 1900

Fourteen colour plates are used to make the engraving for the special supplements, here you can see the different print machines used for each colour that is done separately. Date: 1881

Printing the original weekly newspaper The Graphic. Date: 1881

Men working in the batteries and dynamo machine room before going to print. Date: 1881

Indian troops take their Maxim machine guns into the firing line on the Western Front in France. The ammunition is carried in boxes behind Date: 1915

The multicellular tractor tandem flying machine, built at Villefranche, is ingenious but never flies : the front wing is controllable in any direction, giving direction. Date: circa May 1909

Couple in Early Plane Date: 1909

Using Dictation Machine Date: 1954

Buying Travel Insurance Date: 1950

Farmer Watches Reaping Date: 1950

Early Recording Machine

Early Adding Machine Date: 1930

Albert, Duke of York - Motorcycle Meeting at Brooklands
Prince Albert, Duke of York (future King George VI) (1895-1952) - Motorcycle Meeting at Brooklands in aid of the Middlesex Hospital and the Industrial Welfare Society in late May 1921

Lancashire, England - Textile Cotton Mill worker and looms. Date: circa 1905

Advert for W &s Summerscales & Sons household machines 1888 Advert for W & S
Double page spread of a selection of Victorian free-standing machines for household use, available in W &s Summerscales & Sons catalogue, including The Colonial mangle, chain washer and Gardner

Machine Gun, Light, Arisaka, 6. 5 Mm Type 96
Japanese Type 96 Arisaka 6. 5 mm light machine gun 1939 (c). Date: circa 1939

Horse doping tests in a laboratory, Newmarket
Horse doping tests -- a laboratory technician in a white coat turns a knob on a Packard Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer, used for testing samples at the Horse Doping Test Centre in Newmarket

Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield 1871
Various scene inside the government-owned rifle factory, Royal Small-Arms Factory, Enfield. Date: 1871

Beach at Brighton 1859
Busy beach scene at Brighton. Date: 1859

A mobile, military washing machine being guarded by troops
Horse-drawn machine was designed to rid a soldiers bedding from lice and infectious diseases. Steam is used to clean the bedding and uniforms. Straw-filled mattresses can be seen in the foreground

Illustrated London News, Harrild & Sons roller printer 1885 Illustrated London
A Souvenir from The Illustrated London News, patent printing machine at the International Exhibition of Inventions. Date: 1885

Cotton Spinning Machine 1862
Cotton Manufacture in the International Exhibition. Platts Self-Acting Mule, or the Cotton Spinning Machine. Date: 1862

Hastings in October 1857
Victorians having an enjoyable day at Hastings. Date: 1857

Scotch Carpet Loom, Glasgow 1843
A weaver sits at a hand-operated Scotch carpet loom at a Glasgow carpet factory. The pattern is created using Jacquard punched cards which travel across the top of the loom. Date: 1843

Percy Pilchers fatal flight 1899
Photographs showing Pilcher ready to start and in mid flight on his invention the Gliding machine. On 30th September 1899, the weather was wet and stormy

Brussels Carpet Loom, Glasgow 1843
Scotch carpet factory. Date: 1843

Persian Rug Making, Glasgow 1843
A weaver operates a Persian rug-making loom at a Glasgow carpet factory. Date: 1843

Spinning machine or engine 1843
A steam-powered silk spinning machine or engine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby. Date: 1843

Steam sewing factory 1854
A large clothes manufactures at Holloway and Co factory, here you can see twenty machines at work, driven by steam power attended by young women. Date: 1854

Advert for Geo. Salter & Co. household items Advert for Geo. Salter & Co
Selection of household specialities, available from Geo. Salter & Co. in West Bromwich. Date: 1887

International Exhibition - carpet power-loom 1862
Exhibit at the International Exhibition 1862, held at Kensington, showing a Messrs Henderson and Cos carpet powered weaving loom. Date: 1862

Eight hours at the beach by John Leech 1875
Victorian men, women and children enjoying a day at the beach. Date: 1875

Weighing machine at the general Post Office 1856
The object of the machine is to enable the Post Office authorities at St. Martins-le-Grand to weigh en masse, letters and newspapers sent daily from office to the provinces. Date: 1856

Bobbin-net Machine at a Nottingham Lace Factory 1843
Bobbin-net lace making machine, invented by John Heathcoat in the 1750s. Date: 1843

Jacquard Apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham 1843
Jacquard punched coded card apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham. The arrangement of the holes in successive cards determined the pattern produced in the lace-making machine to which

Tea measuring machine 1909
Sumerland & Co, tea measuring machine, with padlock. Date: 1909

Harrison & Sons power loom 1862 Harrison & Sons power loom 1862
Harrison & Sons power-loom for weaving flax. Date: 1862

Street trade - knife grinder
knife grinder on the streets. Date: 1885

SEWING MACHINE LESSON
Amanda learns to use an electric Singer sewing machine during a school lesson. Date: 1960s

MAN AFTER 35 000 YEARS
MACHINE MAN OF ARDATHIA (Francis Flagg) 35, 000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays Date: 1927

SOLAR POWERED AIRCRAFT
A flying machine fills its tanks with solar power derived from the suns energy. Date: 1898

HUNGARIAN COFFEE BAR
A woman operates an early espresso machine in an espresso bar in Hungary. Date: 1950s

BOYS AND VENDING MACHINE
A group of boys in their school uniform (shorts) gather round a vending machine to wait for their cold drink. Date: 1960s

VENDING MACHINE / LABELS
A vending machine allows you to print out your own labels. A leather gloved hand reaches out for the finished item. Date: 1960s

FRANCISQUE CROTTE / 1901
Francisque Crotte demonstrates his machine for curing tuberculosis Date: 1901

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