Machine Collection (page 60)

Machine Gun Section
A machine-gun section of the Grenadier Guards, wearing their field service kit. Eight men to man a single machine gun ?

German Surrendering
At bayonet point, a German machine gunner surrenders to two British soldiers at Croiselles

Holmes / Solitary Cyclist
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST " I slowed down my machine."

Watsons Experiment
Watson demonstrates that the human body is an electrical machine by extracting an electric spark from the body of a youth

Guerickes Machine
Otto von Guericke demonstrates his electric machine, producing static electricity from a globe when rubbed

Bathers at Ostend
A bather demonstrates her dexterity and displays her derriere on the step of a bathing machine at Ostend, Belgium

Machines / Steam Navvy
STEAM NAVVY Excavation machine used in making a new dock in Swansea

Galvani Frog Exp. 5
Luigi Galvani, professor at Bologna university, observes contractions in a frogs legs when brought into contact with an electrical machine

Plate Glass Polishing
Machine for polishing plate-glass

Invisibility Machine
According to inventor/ publisher Hugo Gernsback, making people invisible is possible, using radiation similar to X-rays, based on the research of Steans

German Air Gunner 1940
German machine-gunner in the cockpit of a bomber - probably a Heinkel HE-111

German Machine Gunners
German machine-gun crew ready and waiting

Maxim Gun - Royal Navy
THE MAXIM GUN used by Petty Officers of the Royal Navys HMS Excellent

Machine for Tight Lacing
Satire on the fashion for tight corsets - A correct view of the new machine for winding up the ladies

Arkwrights Spinning
ARKWRIGHTs SPINNING MACHINE The first machine to enable spinning to be done by machine

Samuel Crompton
SAMUEL CROMPTON The Inventor of the Spinning Machine called the Mule

Family / All Together
A German family in their living-room, each member of the household industriously occupied

Langleys Failure
Samuel Pierpont Langleys full-size flying machine fails over the Potomac, Washington, though trials with models had been successful

Communications / Printing /
Hoes ten feeder printer machine, used to print the Daily Telegraph newspaper, London

Automatic Bridge Playing machine
An Automatic Bridge Playing machine. The (human) player inserts a coin, is shown his own hand and the dummy s, and plays by inserting plugs in holes representing the cards

Kempelins Automaton Chess Player
Wolfgang von Kempelins Automaton Chess Player. It was created in Germany, was widely exhibited, and eventually reappeared in New York in 1845

Futuristic poultry farming
An example of futuristic poultry farming, using a machine with various controls, and smoke coming out of a little chimney

Futuristic farming
An example of futuristic farming, the automated way. The farmer sits on a chair and operates the controls, while machinery does the harvesting

Futuristic teaching machine in a classroom
A futuristic teaching machine in a classroom. The teacher loads the books into a hopper and the knowledge percolates into the boys heads through wires leading to headphones

Futuristic floor polishing machine
A maid operates a futuristic automated electric floor polishing machine -- housework made easy

Futuristic automated tailoring establishment
A futuristic automated tailoring establishment, where the equipment does all (or most of) the work

Futuristic mechanised barbers shop
A futuristic mechanised barbers shop, where all the barber has to do is press a few buttons on a machine

Cent Mille Lieues
CENT MILLE LIEUES DANS LES AIRS (comte Henry de la Vaulx) : a French flying machine attacks a troop of hostile African natives on camels

Hornsbys Thresher
Hornsbys Steam powered thresher

Priestmanns Gas Engine Date: circa 1909

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