Machine Collection (page 55)

Cloth production - Factory Workers
Women factory workers manning a sheet-weaving machine at Patons & Baldwins Factory in Darlington. The company, principally produced knitting wool

Factory employee checks large Spinning Machine
A lady factory worker checks an immense spinning machine at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Captain H. Furber, of the 3rd Batt. Welsh Regiment, experiment in dog traction for machine guns

The Gramme Electricity Machine and Light, 1878
Engraving showing a group of gentlemen viewing the Gramme electricity generator and several images showing the electric lamps used with the generator, 1878

Galloping a machine gun into action: A French Dragoon Mitrailleuse section dashing forward under fire

German machine guns on temporary mountains for use against war planes

Indian machine gunners mobilize
Indian troops taking their maxim machine guns to the firing line in world war one

Kultur: The Drilling Machine for Military Beginners by Heath
Three raw recruits are put through their paces on the training ground with the help of a machine which reduces them to mere puppets

British Motor-Launch in the North Sea, Second World War, 194
Photograph showing the deck of a Royal Navy motor-launch (M.L.) on patrol in the North Sea, 1942. This photograph clearly shows the three gun turrets on the rear of the launch

British Tank in action, Western Front; First World War, 1916
Photograph showing a British tank going into action on the Western Front in France, during the autumn of 1916. This machine appears to be a Mark V Male tank

German Weapons; First World War, 1916
Photograph showing a variety of captured German weapons, displayed in a yard behind the French lines, 1916. The weapons shown include machine-guns, rifles, artillery pieces and flame-throwers

Design for a Flying Machine, 1877
Engraving showing the design for a flying machine, suggested in 1877. This design would appear to incorporate several spheres of gas or hot air, as well as features of bird-like construction

Vigra Gold Mine, Wales, 1862
Engraving showing the crushing mill of Vigra gold mine, beside the Hirgwm river in North Wales, 1862. The waterwheel shown was about 60ft in diameter

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Machine for Cutt
In June 1842 all light sovereigns were recalled to the Bank of England and weighed. If they were below the standard weight they were defaced and cut using this machine

Dredging the Land for Gold. Mining Extraordinary. In the Wak
Photograph shows a channel, cut in the land by the gold seeking machine, and mounds of stone thrown out by it

Ingeniously improvised upholstery
A group of British officers of a moter machine-gun battery are pictured relaxing upon chairs made from empty ration boxes

THE GREAT AEROPLANE
The Essex Ghost - a daring conception of a futuristic flying machine from Edwardian England

Water pump
An advertisement from 1893 for Marryweathers hand fire-engines, a device which doubles up as both a fire extinguisher and plant watering machine

Harrisons Ice Making Machine, 1858
Engraving showing the ice making machine, designed by Mr. Harrison of Geelong, Australia, 1858. Built by Mr. Siebe of Denmark Street, Soho, London

Anti-aircraft machine-gun
An anti-aeroplane machine-gun, part of the Parisian defences against air attacks

Platts Spinning Machine
Cotton manufacture at the International Exhibition: Platts Self-Acting Mule or Cottonspinning machine

The Daily Telegraph printing machine
The Daily Telegraph ten-feeder printing machine in operation

British Major and Lieutenant, near Arnhem; Second World War
Photograph showing a Major (on left) and Lieutenant of the British First Airborne Division in the woods near Arnhem, Holland, September 1944

German trenches at the front
German infantry in advanced trenches in front of Antwerp readying to fire upon the Belgians with a machine-gun

Motorcyclist of the British First Airborne; Second World War
Photograph showing a soldier, of the Motorcycle Section of the British First Airborne Division, heading off on his motorcycle, 1944

Belgian soldiers working a Hotchkiss machine-gun
Photograph showing two Belgian soldiers working a Hotchkiss machine-gun. The revolving barrel Hotchkiss machine-gun was invented by the American

A Rudge-Whitworth Sociable Bicycle, 1896
Photograph of a Rudge-Whitworth Sociable Bicycle, capable of carrying two people side-by-side. It would appear that this machine best suited couples of comparable weight

The Flying-boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, February 193
Photograph of the 37-ton flying-boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris during public trials on the Etang de Biscarosse in the Landes, France

Stamp machine
A Machine which will not cheat and cannot be cheated. The first penny-in-the-slot machine for stamping envelopes

Belgian soldiers retreat
Belgian soldiers in August 1914, retreating to Antwerp, accompanied by dogs pulling machine guns. As the Germans pushed their invasion through Belgium, the Belgium army was forced to retreat

America. Wheat Farming in California. June: Heading
A large machine pulled by horses and pushed by six mules travels through the fields heading the wheat

Military Multi-Cycle On trial at Aldershot, 1887
Illustration showing the British Army trials of a Multi-cycle, a pedal machine for twelve soldiers and their equipment, at Aldershot, 1887

Railway ticket printing machine
A hand leaver ticket printing machine, tickets are printed on every stroke with a consecutive number and discharged in a receiver below. The machine is capable of printing 200 tickets per minute

Aviators chasing the enemy
A French parasol monoplane flying at nearly 10, 000 feet, photographed by another French machine. The photograph was taken during an engagement with German aircraft near Nancy

Maxim / Hiram / Van Fair 04
SIR HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM British inventor, born in America, best known for the Maxim recoil-operated machine gun (1884)

Cotton Plaiting Machine
Plaiting machine, Lancashire

Learning to Type
A young woman learns to type at a secretarial school, on a massive manual machine

A Twenty-five seat Tricycle, 1896
Illustration of a Tricycle for twenty-five, designed by the Herald Cycle Company, New York, 1896. This machine was being built for the Nynuke Bicycle Club of Brooklyn, at a cost of 120

A Trip on a Tricycle Chair, 1890
Illustration showing a Trip on a Tricycle Chair that leads to disastrous consequences for the chairs driver. At top right, the young man in the bowler hat purchases the machine

Metal Monster Machine
THE METAL MONSTER by E K Jarvis. A massive metallic machine strides through the sea on four legs grabbing battleships in its clutches and firing a ray-gun

Scientist & Sub-Universe
OUT OF THE SUB-UNIVERSE by R F Stazl. A scientist brings two small humans from a parallel sub Universe with a complicated machine

Drying Machine
Several engravings illustrating an ingenious device for drying clothes; a forerunner of the fold-up telescopic clothes drier used instead of a line and pegs

AIR TRAVEL
A lady flies over a city with her dog on her lap, and suddenly she drops her bag!

Automatic Milk Machine
A little girl demonstrates how easy it is to fill up a jug with milk from an automatic milk machine!

The Aerophore Breathing Apparatus, 1874
Engraving of the Aerophore Breathing Apparatus, invented by the French engineer M. Denayrouze, 1874. Denayrouze designed this compressed air breathing machine for use in exploring mines full of

AN ABACUS
An abacus adding machine

Ration Gadgets for your Coupons - Sunday Joint
Part of a series of humorous illustrations he produced for the Sketch during World War II. The scene shows a family sitting at a dinner table for Sunday lunch only to be faced with a circular machine

An automatic milkman
Photograph from 1909 showing a penny-in-the-slot milk-machine. The machine enabled shop owners to close at reasonable hours, and for customers to buy milk at any hour of the day or night

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