Machine Collection (page 56)

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

Electric Water
This young lady stands on an insulated platform, and is connected to an electric machine : when she pours water onto another persons hands, sparks are produced

Ludlows Flying Machine and a United States Warship, 1907
Photograph of the Flying Machine built by Mr. Israel Ludlow at the Aeronautical Building in the Jamestown Exhibition, 1907

Barricade Machine
Engine devised by the Communards for the construction of barricades

Grey & Lace Dress 1899
Pale grey dress with an irregular shaped tunic, machine over-stitching, gauged yoke & white lace under-skirt. Her parasol is also trimmed with a lace flounce

Professor Myers Air Bicycle, 1891
Photograph of Professor Carl Myers Air Bicycle being demonstrated at Congress Springs, Saratoga, 1891. The balloon above the rider was filled with hydrogen gas

Electro-magnetic surgery
A tool to aid surgeons in the operating theatre. A electro-magnetic machine to detect and remove metal particles from wounds

Armstrongs hydro-electric machine
Hydro-electric machine invented by William George Armstrong (1810-1900), later Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, in the 1840 s

A Calculating machine
The control panel of the automatic sequence-controlled calculating machine at Manchester University; showing the monitor cathode-ray tube with Dr. T. Kilburn (left) and Professor F. C

Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition
A series of pictures from The Graphic depicting various exhibits at the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition in 1882. The main picture at the top shows a domestic drawing-room lit by electricity

Grammes dynamo-electrical machine
Engraving by W. Bazzett Murray showing Grammes direct-current dynamo. Zenobe Theophile Gramme (1826-1901) built the first successful dynamo in 1869

Census counting machine
Counting and tabulating machines used in the 1911 census. Punched cards, where different combinations of holes represented a different fact on the census sheet were then fed into the counting

Housewife Using Twin Tub
A young housewife uses wooden pincers to pull her laundry out of the washing half of the Twin Tub washing machine to put it into the spinning half

Lassie Tramples Washing
It is the firm belief of postcard makers that the Scots are too canny to waste money on a washing machine - instead they trample the washing, the way the French do grapes

Advertisement for British Standard car
Advertisement for the British Standard car, entitled Integrity, with illustration of the car and a bullion scale. The advertisement states

Milking by electricity
Illustration to show the process of milking cows with the Lawrence-Kennedy cow milker. The sketch also shows in fig.iv and v, a new hand- milking machine invented by Mr. C.S. Padfield of Bath

Tide predicting machine: front view
Photograph of the front view of the tide-predicting machine, designed by Lord Kelvin in 1876. Constructed by Lege for the Indian government

The Electric Light
Engraving of electric light apparatus, known as the Dynamo-Electrical machine. Made by the Russian engineer M. Jablochkoff

Brabys machine
Engraving of Brabys machine for breaking up roads and scarifying or tilling land

General Election: Scenes at a London club
Series of sketches from the front cover of the ILN, July 17th, 1886 illustrating activity at a London club on the day of a General Election in 1886

Reluctant Bather
A girl hesitates on the steps of her bathing machine, dismayed by the appearance of the sea, alarmingly different from the familiarity of the swimming baths !

Galloways rotary steam engine
Engraving of Galloways rotary steam engine. The machine was extremely powerful for its size

Cranstons wood grass mowing machine
Engraving of Cranstons wood grass mowing machine of 1862

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; An arran
Illustration representing an idea for a piece of machinery that enabled a dog or cat to drive a small machine

Steam washing machinery at St. Pancras workhouse
Engraving of the steam washing machine at St. Pancras workhouse 1857. St. Pancras workhouse was erected as the parish workhouse in 1809

Carpet Embroidering
Two operatives are required for the Embroidering Machine which produces carpets with floral and other designs for the Victorian home

Paper-Making Machine
The paper mix passes through a sequence of operations on the paper-making machine

Grocery Shop Rations
A shopkeeper measures out a weeks rations on his weighing scales. During World War Two, planning a familys meals often depended upon what an individual shop had in stock

Cowpers Writing Telegraph
A diagram of Cowpers writing telegraph. Invented in 1878 by William Cowper (1819-1893), the machine was able to reproduce a message written some distance away by a process of interrupted electrical

Lorimer automatic exchange
Photograph of the Canadian Lorimer automatic telephone exchange, a system which dispensed with the need for telephone girls

First Anglo-French telephone
Illustration showing the completion of the first Anglo-French telephone with callers in London speaking to Paris. Insert picture no

Telharmony
Series of images from 1907 showing a Telharmony machine, invented by Dr. Thaddeus Cahill. A player on the Telharmonium controls vibrating currents from a series of dynamos

Pacific / Sewing Machine
Civilisation comes to the Caroline Islands (West Pacific) - natives learn the wonders of the Singer sewing machine Date: circa 1900

Mineral Water Factory
The Mineral Water Factory of Herbert Dawe Ltd. of Paignton, Devon, England

Weighing Machine 1883
A little girl sits on a weighing machine on the London underground

British Dogs Pull Guns
During World War One the British army copies the Belgians, and uses dogs to haul machine guns. These two muzzled dogs don t seem too happy about the idea

American Washing Machine
A maid operates a primitive- looking washing machine, made in America

Soldiers and Bullets
Revolutionary soldiers load machine-gun belts in case they need to shoot someone

Machine Gun Regiment
Disarmament of the First Machine-gun Regiment

Vending Machine / Massage
A vending machine offering a rejuvenating vibrating foot massage

Girl at Vending Machine
A vending machine in an Exeter Post Office selling postal orders amongst other things

Hatmaking Machine
An interesting and intriguing hatmaking machine which is shown here in the process of flattening a hat brim

Machine Court / Gt Exhib
The machinery court at the Crystal Palace exhibition

Sewing Machine Girl
A gentleman walking down Londons Regent Street is struck by the sight of a pretty girl operating a sewing machine in a shop window

German Bathing Beauty
A young German lady in a one- piece bathing costume with a belt poses with a fully clothed gentleman friend outside a bathing machine

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