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Two young men sorting through a pile of scrap metalTwo young men, one in a top hat, the other in a bowler hat, sorting through a rather unpromising pile of scrap metal in a junk yard
A robot to open an exhibition: the new mechanical manPhotograph and sketches of an aluminium man, the first British robot invented by Captain Richards and Mr. A.H. Refell. The machine could rise, bow and make a speech
Advert for The Ford Typewriter. 1902
Farming Scene in Western Canada - harvesting crops and stooks. Date: circa 1910s
Hensons Aerial Steam CarriageThe Aerial Steam Carriage -- underside view with covering fabric in place. This flying machine was patented by William Samuel Henson (1812-1888) and John Stringfellow (1799-1883) in 1842. 1843
Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1904 May
Cider Pressing 18th CApples are being pressed to make cider in a French barn of the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760
Steam hammer, details of piston and cylinderSteam hammer, front elevation and details of piston and cylinder
Orffyreus Wheel & ManThe perpetual motion wheel of Orffyreus, real name Johann Ernst Elias Bessler, is set in motion by a man
Browning Machine GunBROWNING American inventor John Moses Browning with one of his machine guns
Stamp Machine 1960SA young woman puts a penny (1d) in the slot of a stamp machine, which will dispense a second class book of stamps. First class stamps are 3d (thruppence) per book
M. I. T. Calculator 1930SThe Differential Analyser calculating machine designed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Filling a ToothA rather bored-looking young dentist fills his clients tooth with the aid of a small dental mirror
Clocking-In MachineA Clocking In machine in a factory records the hours workers start and leave the workplace
Silk Weaver 1855A Spitalfields weaver at work
Leonardo MachineLEONARDO DA VINCI Sketch of a flying machine, driven by a standing man using his arms to flap the wings
Power Loom WeavingInterior of cotton mill in Lancashire: power loom weaving- man and woman tend machine
Threshing MachineCombined Thrashing and Stacking Machine, by Wilkinson, Wright of Boston, Lincolnshire
WW1 Machine gunnersOfficial photograph, Machine gunners. From an album of 24 photographs, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), August to December 1918. Date: 1918
Hensons Aerial Steam CarriageThe Aerial Steam Carriage -- sectional views of the boiler. This flying machine was patented by William Samuel Henson (1812-1888) and John Stringfellow (1799-1883) in 1842. 1843
Hensons Aerial Steam CarriageThe Aerial Steam Carriage -- enlarged view of the steam engine. This flying machine was patented by William Samuel Henson (1812-1888) and John Stringfellow (1799-1883) in 1842. 1843
Hensons Aerial Steam CarriageThe Aerial Steam Carriage -- enlarged view of the car or carriage. This flying machine was patented by William Samuel Henson (1812-1888) and John Stringfellow (1799-1883) in 1842. 1843
Hensons Aerial Steam CarriageThe Aerial Steam Carriage -- side view of the main frame, and plan of the controlling tail. This flying machine was patented by William Samuel Henson (1812-1888) and John Stringfellow (1799-1883)
Design drawing for a man-powered flying machine designed by Sir George Cayley. Date 1853
British machine gun carriers passing through French villageBritish Bren Machine-Gun Carriers passing through a French village on the way to a rendezvous in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939
V-1 Flying Bomb in flight; Second World War, 1944Photograph showing a German V-1 Flying Bomb rocket in flight over Southern England, 1944. Flames can be seen streaking from the exhaust of the machine
Singer Factory / PostcardWorkers leaving the Singer factory, makers of the famous sewing machine
Exercise MachineTwo young women, toning up and staying slim with the aid of their new fangled rowing exercise machines!
Advert for Follows & Bates winding machines 1900sVarious machines from the late 19th Century early 20th century, advertised in The Ironmonger Diary and Text Book, for Follows & Bates in Manchester. Circa 1900
Potato harvest, Rafta Farm, St Levan, CornwallMother and daughter (Pamela and Sandra Semmens) working on the potato harvest at Rafta Farm, St Levan, near Lands End, Cornwall. Date: 1970s
Fantastic Wooden Screw Olive Press - Kabyle People, AlgeriaAbsolutely Fantastic Wooden Olive Screw Press - Kabyle People, Algeria. The traditional Kabylian economy of the area is based on arboriculture (orchards and olive trees)
Advert for Ransomes lawn mowersAn advertisement for Ransomes lawn mowers, showing three different products available. Date: 1883
Advert for Terrys exerciser for men 1939Christmas gift ideas from Herbert Terry exercisers, including steelstrand expander, golfer pocket wrist exerciser, spring grip dumbbells
Advertisement for Crane petite boilers -- male model (Tony Gale) extending his hand. 1959
A Fountain Pen Repair Shop - Indianapolis, Indiana, USAA Fountain Pen Repair Shop - The Pen Shop - at 112 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Date: 1940
WW1 - German anti-British propaganda postcard - Caught and Trapped - a duplicitous British Army Officer is captured by the forces of the Central Powers trying to smuggle a machine gun to his men
Drunk Stockbroker - confused by toilet rollDrunk Stockbroker - confused by a toilet roll, which he takes to be the ticker tape! (which would have provided him with the latest market prices). Date: circa 1910s
Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit firing at aircraft, WW1Two men belonging to a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit with a Scott motorcycle during the First World War, using a Vickers machine gun to fire at aircraft. Date: 1914-1918
Great Crane at Woolwich Arsenal, south east LondonThe Great Crane at the Arsenal, Woolwich, south east London, used to lift sections of large guns
Soviet propaganda poster from World War TwoSoviet propaganda poster, TASS Window no. 469. An heroic young female partisan resists the invading Germans. A patriotic poem by Vasyl Lebedev-Kumach appears below the image
Cold Comfort by W. Heath RobinsonAn elegant device now in use in many seaside boarding houses to obviate the rather indelicate act of blowing on ones food to cool it
New Banting Bed for Reducing the FigureThe New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure. Cartoon by William Heath Robinson
The Harley-Scope Mine-Detector by William Heath RobinsonA crackpot invention dreamed up Heath Robinson, allowing a British machine to suspend a stethoscope wearing doctor over the ground, in an attempt to locate the snug dug outs of the German enemy
Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus for Saving Lives from ShipwrEngraving showing Board of Trade equipment for use to help shipwrecked sailors, 1886. The items are (from left to right, top to bottom)
Busy tailors workshopA busy tailors workshop, with a gentleman being fitted for a new suit
Spitfire at Start WarThe Spitfire as it appears at the outbreak of World War Two, a magnificent machine which immediately proves its superiority in the earliest weeks of fighting
Ladies and Bath MachineLadies on a beach beside their bathing machine
I Robot, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine CoverI, Robot - The robot Adam Link is attacked