Machinery Collection (page 18)

Strimping Machine at Battersbys hatworks, another solid piece of machinery bearing the makers name Date: 1902

Hat factory machinery after fire at Battersbys of Stockport in June 1906. The machinery shown is a crown finishing machine, and in the top left of the picture the drive system is visible

Sugar mill machinery
Diagrams showing part of the elevation and plan of an improved sugar refinery by Edward Woollery Esq of Jamaica. Date: 18th century

Miners at work, Victor, Colorado, USA
Miners at work, drilling one thousand feet underground in a gold mine at Victor, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1910

Farm scene near Mineral Wells, Texas, USA
Farm scene with horses and threshing machine near Mineral Wells, Texas, USA. circa 1910

Brim making machine at Battersbys hat factory in Stockport, 1906. This is believed to be new machinery bought to replace equipment destroyed in the fire a few weeks earlier Date: 1906

Four men in hat factory finishing room at Battersbys in Stockport, June 1906. Note the massive exposed machinery behind them and the driveshaft for it which comes through the wall. Date: 1906

MORSE, Samuel (1791-1872). North American painter and physicist, telegraphs inventor. Morse telegraph receiving station using punched tape Movilleron, early 20th c

Queen Mary Ocean Liner work begins
Full Steam Ahead. John Brown & Company in Clydebank in Scotland, begin the major task of constructing Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534

Crew of HMS Astraea, British second-class cruiser
Group photo, crew of HMS Astraea, British second-class cruiser, at Hong Kong, including telegraphist with machine. Date: circa 1908

First Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, with snow on the ground. circa 1905

Visitors to the Channel Tunnel works at Dover in 1882. 1. Going down in the Cage. 2. Arrival at the bottom of the shaft. 3. Swindon Junction (visitors enjoying a restorative glass of champagne!) 4

A woman tractor driver during WW1
A woman tractor driver at Wye in Kent oiling a government tractor during the First World War, one of the numerous traditionally male roles taken on by women during the conflict. Date: 1918

Soldiers as munitions workers
Having enlisted early in the war, and been sent back from the front, many British soldiers found work in factories producing war munitions. Date: 1915

Trade card, Keystone Wringer, Best in the World, manufactured by F F Adams & Co, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

The town hall carillon of Levallois-Perret, 1898
The town hall carillon of Levallois-Perret, Paris. Date: 1898

Warner and sons patent chiming machine
Messers J. Warner and sons patent chiming machine, by which a lad entirely unaccustomed to music may chime a whole peal.See picture 10837677 for a close up of a similar chiming machine

Incident in Charlotte Street, London W1
LFB Special Services attending an incident in Charlotte Street, London W1, 6 February 1956. A boy is being supported by a member of the ambulance crew

Engraving of Davies fire escape, Blackfriars Road, London
Engraving of Davies portable fire escape belonging to the Royal Society for Protection of Life from Fire, at the Obelisk in Blackfriars Road, London. Date: 1849

Shand Mason fire appliance in a steam museum
Shand Mason fire appliance (marked First Grand Prize) on display in a steam museum, August 1938

Horse-drawn steamer taking part in special drill
A horse-drawn steamer and crew taking part in a special drill display given at Lambeth HQ for chief officers of provincial fire brigades on 13 October 1937. Seen here are hosepipes in action

Horse-drawn fire engine with crew, Willesden, London
A horse-drawn fire engine with crew, High Road, Willesden Green, NW London, with Willesden Chapel in the background

Horse-drawn steamer taking part in display
Horse-drawn steamer taking part in a display, with crew in traditional uniform, including brass helmets

Steam pump fire appliance in a steam museum
Steam pump fire appliance on display in a steam museum, August 1938

Engraving of worm-driven fire squirt
Engraving of people operating a large worm-driven fire squirt mounted on two wheels, to put out a fire in a burning building, reproduced from Besoni, Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum, 1568

Metropolitan Fire Brigade horse-drawn steamer
A Metropolitan Fire Brigade horse-drawn steamer with driver-operator

Engraving of a steamer in action during a fire, with panic on the street

Engraving of a Rowntree fire engine, showing various sections. Date: 1812

Women wanted for War Work, WW1
Advertisement by the Motor Drivers Licensed Employment Bureau calling for women to train as engineers during the First World War. Full training in machinery and car repairs offered. Date: 1918

Poster design, Moteur Ceres, J de Bucy, manufacturers of farming equipment. Date: circa 1910

Poster design, Osborne, Maillols, Perpignan, France
Poster design, Osborne, Maillols, Perpignan -- manufacturers of farming equipment. Date: circa 1910

French shells used on Land and Sea WWI
In Toulon arsenal: Finished projectiles after " passing the doctor" ; the necessary wash. Upper photograph: showing big-gun shells

A Trouser Stretch of the Imagination by Heath Robinson
Are you taking care of your summer flannels? A suggestion for preserving the shape of your nether garments in view of the summer holidays

Food factory(?), China
Scene in what appears to be some kind of food factory, China. Date: circa 1890

Saw Mills, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the saw mills at Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, with tree trunks about to be cut into planks. Date: circa 1905

Soldier waiting by old farm machinery, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier waiting by some old farm machinery on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Harvesting scene with soldiers, Western Front, WW1
A harvesting scene with soldiers on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Sectional view of gun-house and decks by G. H. Davis
From the Fleet: naval notes of the week. Showing a sectional view through a gun-house of a ship and the decks below. Date: 1914

Stereoscopic television pictures by G. H. Davis
Stereoscopic television pictures: a notable British achievement. Three-dimensional pictures across the ether: the latest triumph of the inventor of television. Date: 1942

Secrets of German aircraft revealed by G. H. Davis
Secrets of German aircraft revealed: the Messerschmitt ME109 and ME110, the Heinkel 111K and the Junkers 88-A1. Date: 1940

A Robot to Teach Physiology by G. H. Davis
One of the novel exhibits on display at the Schoolboys Exhibition at the New Horticultural Hall, London in the Winter of 1928-9; a metal robot which explained the workings of the heart, lungs

The Holiday Monighan Dragline by Heath Robinson
A dragline machine usually used in excavation, converted into a pleasant holiday home with room for a swing, a washing line and a diving board

The Corner Grab Crane by Heath Robinson
The Corner Grab Crane for working round corners - a valuable suggestion by Mr W. Heath Robinson now under consideration by Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd

The Multiplex Dragline by Heath Robinson
The multiplex dragline for dragging winding streams - another suggestion by Mr W. Heath Robinson. A complicated excavation machine enabling the operator to drag in curving lines. Date: c.1938

The Cow and Plate Polecat Trapper
Another ingenious idea from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson, the gadget king, for a cow and plate pole-cat trapper on the Catskill Mountains

The Ice Hole Clam Spearer by Heath Robinson
An ingenious, though perhaps rather complicated device to catch clams through ice in the frozen north, part of a series of drawings in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News entitled

The Leap to Tin Salmon Blower by Heath Robinson
Another convoluted contraption from the gadget king William Heath Robinson, showing how salmon are tinned in Scotland, part of a series in the Illustrated Sporting

Polygraph for brain and body monitoring in ESP testing
A multi-pen polygraph for the monitoring of brain and body functions during ESP testing. Date: 20th century

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