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PINBALL MACHINE / 1963A pinball machine first manufactured by J.H. Keeney & Co. Inc. in April 1963. The game, Venus, is loosly based on bingo and there are six bingo cards on the back glass. Date: 1963
Sentinel DG4 Timber Tractor ARE195Sentinel DG4 Timber Tractor regn. ARE195, built in 1935 by the Sentinel Waggon Works in Shrewsbury, at a Bristol Steam Fair. Date: 6 May 1972
McLaren Ploughing Engine BD5504McLaren Ploughing Engine, regn. BD5504, number 1552, Hero. Built by J&H McLaren & Co. at Hunslet in 1919, powered by a 16 Nhp compound steam engine. Date: 1970s-1980s
Hiram Maxim?s captive flying machine ? ?Aerial RoundaboutSir Hiram Maxim?s captive flying machine ? ?Aerial Roundabout?, circa 1904. Date: circa 1904
Bathers and Bathing Machines at Scheveningen, The Hague, The Netherlands. Note the Bathing Machine owner about to strap his horse to one of the Bathing machines to pull it further inland away
Leonardesque model. Trench-digging machine. Model. TechnologLeonardesque model. Trench-digging machine. Drawing of a digger for excavating trenches or channels. Manuscript L, sheet 76v, 1497-1502. Model. The science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci
Singer Sewing Machine - Shoe Repairers Machine model 29K53. 1932
Singer Sewing Machines - factory clock tower. 1932
Advert for Daisy vacuum cleaner 1912Daisy vacuum cleaner, manual vacuum cleaner using suction to remove dirt. 1912
WW2 defence, illustration by William Heath RobinsonDefence during WW2 -- Stout members of the sixth column dislodge an enemy machine gun post on the dome of St Paul s, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J
A very early type of railway signal by W Heath RobinsonA very early type of railway signal now rarely to be seen - an example from Railway Ribaldry, drawn by William Heath Robinson and commissioned by the Great Western Railway to mark their centenary
Nieuport 17s of the French N124 Escadrille LafayetteFour Nieuport 17s of the French N124 Escadrille Lafayette, formed of French commanded American volunteer pilots. The squadron was formed in April 1916
Amoskeag Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire, USAWeave room in No. 11 Mill (a textile mill) of the Amoskeag Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. Date: 1911
Polish cavalry at the start of World War TwoPoland as a military power: cavalry, tanks and infantry (part of a spread in the Illustrated London News). Polands impressive horse cavalry are seen here, probably the best in Europe (the ILN says)
German machine gun WWIMachine gun post in a front line trench during the withdrawal to the Siegfried line on the Western Front during World War I Date: February 1917
Cona Coffee MachineAdvertisement for the Cona coffee machine (British made)
Cider pressingTower to crush the apples and old cider press in Normandy in northern France. Date: circa 1870s
Rear-Gunner Camera-Gun on an Aircraft for Aerial-Photography Date: 1934
de Havilland Airco DH-9Camera-Gun on a de Havilland Airco Dh-9 for Aerial-Photography Date: 1920s
Smith Premier Typewriter No. 4 - at The Paris Exposition 1900Advertising card for The Smith Premier Typewriter No.4 exhibited at The Paris Exposition of 1900. Date: 1900
East African Reconnaissance Regiment in BurmaPhotograph of a soldier from the East African Reconnaissance Regiment, checking a machine-gun, Burma, 1945. The East African Reconnaissance Regiment, part of 11th East African Division
WW2 - With the W. A. A. F. - ArmourersWW2 - With the W.A.A.F. - Armourers Date: circa 1942
The Improved Ladys Own Sewing Machine by Leigh & Crawford, Brooke Street, Holborn, London EC. 19th century
A Calculating machine, 1949A double page spread from the Illustrated London News, 1949, reporting on the automatic sequence controlled calculating machine at Manchester University
A Lincolnshire Handicap by Heath RobinsonA race between cranes at the test ground of excavation specialists, Ruston-Bucyrus, who commissioned the ingenious Heath Robinson to draw a number of comical engineering drawings for a booklet
A TelewriterA telewriter at Dollis Hill telephone exchange, London. Date: early 1930s
Balloon ascent, Champ de Mars, ParisBalloon ascent by Montgolfier, d Anonai and Vivarais from the Champ de Mars, Paris. 27 August 1783
Waiting at the Cotton Gin - Memphis, Tennessee. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds Date: circa 1910
Wartime poster, Britain Expects that you too, this day, will do your duty. Suggesting that civilians as well as soldiers have a role to play in the war effort. 1940s
Scouts with a Rolls-Royce engineA group of Scouts looking at a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. 1940s
Robin Maugham looking at a peep-show in BrightonViscount Maugham (author and traveller Robin Maugham) pictured looking at a Peep-Show machine in Brighton where he lived during the 1960s
British soldiers in trench, Oppy-Gavrelle line, France, WW1Two men of the York and Lancashire Regiment in a trench on the 62nd Division front, Oppy-Gavrelle line, northern France, during the First World War
J Nasmyths patent steam hammer, front elevation
Gordon Highlanders making kilts in the open airA group of soldiers from the Gordon Highlanders, some smoking pipes, sit outdoors making kilts. One of them is using a sewing machine
Man under coal weighing machine, Llanerch CollieryA smartly dressed man (Herbert Saunders) standing under a coal weighing machine at Llanerch Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales
Infantrymen of the U. S. Mars Task Force - 1944Infantrymen of the U.S. Mars Task Force unit attack Japanese troops in the Burma Road Sector, 80 miles north of Lashio
Machine gun in German trenches WWIThe weapon which is said to have changed German Infantry tactics: A machine-gun in the German trenches
Perpetual Motion MachineThe supposed perpetual motion machine of Solomon Reisel
Londons new telephone-post kioskA new telephone kiosk in use in a London street, showing a caller inside, postage stamps being bought from the machine outside, and a postman collecting mail from the letterbox
Bathing Machine 1900A rather formidable looking lady stands on the steps of a bathing machine at Walton-on- the-Naze, Essex, England, probably wondering if its to chilly for a dip in the sea
James Chadwick cotton mill, LancashireFinishing : pulling down cloth at James Chadwick & Co, Lancashire
Seaside Fashions 1878Princess line dresses: one is short & more practical for walking, the other has a stand up collar, lacing down the central back seam, buttoned panels at the sides & a train
Flour Mill 1930SA miller at work among the cogs and machinery of an old mill, crushing wheat grain to make flour. Date: 1930s
Dogs Love ChocolatePunch has been trained by his owner to carry messages and pick up litter. Here he tries to use the chocolate dispenser
Thor Washing MachineThis housewife is delighted with her Thor washing machine which converts to a dishwasher when she lifts out the Clothes Tub and slips in th Dish- Washing Unit
Ritemp Washing MachineA housewife prepares to drain her English Electric Ritemp washing machine, simply and rapidly, into bucket or drain, according to the instruction book
Early fax technology in Paris, FranceEdouard Belin demonstrates his instrument to transmit pictures at a distance (an early example of fax technology) at the Salle du Theatre Femina, Paris, France. (2 of 2)
Futuristic news broadcastA futuristic news broadcast, where a couple relax in their sitting room and listen to the days news from a gramophone-like machine