Machines Collection (page 10)

The Screw Em Out golf hole cleaner by Heath Robinson
A typically convoluted contraption from William Heath Robinson, the first in a series entitled, Very Patent Aides to Sport, showing the Screw-Em-Out golf hole cleaner in action on a golf course

The Gentle Art of Excavating - a specially designed skimmer
The beginning of a garden suburb. Excavating a new road with a specially designed skimmer, a typically rickety contraption from the inventive mind of gadget king, William Heath Robinson. Date: c.1938

The Gentle Art of Excavating - Removing top soil
A new type of shovel removing the top soil from a bluff in the Cotswold Hills. A typically elaborate contraption by the gadget king

A Turkey Glide by William Heath Robinson
The latest Christmas family gliders fitted with listening in equipment for hearing Dutch concerts during dinner. One particularly large family flies through the air while using hot water bottles or

Water-powered furnace bellows
A water wheel operates two sets of bellows to keep two furnaces burning hotly. Date: 1588

Walton-On-The Naze
An interesting beach scene at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, England. People look rather over-dressed to the modern eye. Note also the bathing machines next to the sea. Date: circa 1900

Fun on the flying machine at Southport, Merseyside
Fun on Hiram Maxims " Captive Flying Machine" amusement ride at Southport, Merseyside, which opened in 1904. Testament to the design

UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. Industrial Revolution. Children using machines in a textile factory. Engraving

Textile machine. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Instituto Geol󧩣 o y Minero de Espa񡮠

Paston Windmill
Stow Mill on Stow Hill, Paston, near Mundesley, Norfolk. Often known as Paston Mill, it was built with dummy windows to make it look picturesque. Date: built 1827

Bendix washing machine advertisement, c. 1955
Advertisement for the Bendix automatic home washer, which, claims the woman in the advert, really does do everything. I find that hard to believe. c.1955

Heath Robinson and his pea-splitting machine
Photograph of William Heath Robinson (1872 - 1944), pictured with his own model of a pea-splitting machine. A well-loved artist, illustrator and cartoonist

Readers Digest vending machine, Exeter station
A vending machine dispensing copies of the Readers Digest at Exeter St Davids station in Devon. At this date, before decimalisation of the currency

Milk and squash vending machines
Two cold drinks vending machines standing side by side, one for cool refreshing milk, the other for cool refreshing Kia-Ora fruit squash

Bursa - Interior of the silk textile works - Turkey
The interior of the silk textile works of Bay Freres, Bursa, Turkey. The textile manufacturers of Bursa were responsible for making the silk velvet covering for the Ka aba in Mecca

Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies agricultural machinery
An advert for Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Ltd(Orwell Works, Ipswich) portable traction engines and steam powered thrashing machines

WE DAREN T WASTE IT by W. Heath Robinson
A variety of ingenious inventions and machines designed to help people cope and keep cool during an August heatwave. Please note

Turnspit Dog Type
A turnspit dog depicted when not turning a spit : but this engraving shows the type of dog that was employed for this purpose

Perpetual Motion Wheels
Perpetual motion machines of the overbalanced wheel type invented by Bernard Launy and Jeremie Metz; neither will work in practice however

Amusement Arcade
Scene at a Blackpool amusement arcade, with a rather tawdry set of holidaymakers trying their luck on the One-Armed Bandits (slot machines) there

The Torpedo Washer / 1888
THE TORPEDO WASHER - clothes cleaned by compressed air, in half the time of any other washer

Reading Subconscious
In Ray Avery Myers fiction Into the subconscious, future scientists develop machines that read the subconscious mind and project its thoughts as images

Roman Rotary Quern
A Rotary Quern used by the Romans for grinding corn. A number were found intact at the bakery in Pompeii

Scottish Hand Mill
Two women use a handmill to grind flour in a Scottish cabin

Leonardo Wings
LEONARDO DA VINCI Sketches of wings for flying machines

Edmund Cartwright
EDMUND CARTWRIGHT Inventor of the powered loom

The Illustrated London News steam printing machines
Engraving of the steam printing machines used by the weekly periodical, The Illustrated London News. There were two separate machines; one for printing one side of the paper

Umbrellas from a-slot machine 1929
The inventor showing off his A-Slot vending machine Not Schirm, G.M.B.H in Berlin, New York, London and Paris. 1929

Buffalo Bills Wild West Show - Mexican Cavalry - Paris
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show - The Mexican Cavalry - passing The Galerie des machines (officially Palais des machines ) was a pavilion built for the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris

Bathing Machines on the beach at Tenby, Wales Date: circa 1890s

View of City Park, Galveston, Texas, USA. Date: circa 1910

Singer Pavilion, Allahabad Exhibition, Uttar Pradesh, India
Singer (sewing machines) Pavilion, Allahabad Exhibition, Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1910

University Exerciser and Reducer advertisement
Advertisement for the University Exerciser and Reducer to eliminate that tired feeling from your life and step out into a new world of joyful energy

Madeira Road, Brighton, Sussex. circa 1890

Advert for Champion Ice Machine 1889
Pure ice at a moments notice. Date: 1889

Advert for Pulsometer Engineering, luxury iced drinks 1897
Luxury iced drinks, in the hottest climate can be obtained by the use of the Champion hand ice machines. 1897

The Safety of Londons Underground and Tube Railways
Automatic devices for preventing accidents: the safety of Londons Underground and Tube Railways. How the element of danger from human error or illness is eliminated by mechanical means

British Agricultural Manufacturing during WW2 - Tractors
British Agricultural Manufacturing on Parade during WW2 - Tractors rolling off the production line, giving the farmer power for ploughing, sowing, reaping and threshing

Paris Exhibition of 1889 - Machinery Dept - High Glass - roofed hall with machines Exhibits. Part of Box 119 Boswell Collection

Irish Linen Industry, Weaving - an interior of a factory showing weaving machines. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Irish Linen Industry, Winding - an interior of a factory with women operating the winding machines. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Crushing Machines, Belleek Potteries - an interior view of the crushing machines. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Fermanagh: Belleek). Date: circa early 1900s

Broadstairs, Kent - Beach and view of Bleak House (Dickens). Date: circa 1903

Linen Bleaching, Passing Through the Blueing Frame - a barefoot worker is operating between two roller machines in the spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Highbury Truant School, London - Tailoring Class
A tailoring class at the London School Boards Highbury Truant School. Some boys are using sewing machines. Date: early 1900s

Future Prediction - Flying Bus - Humorous Postcard
An older lady, herself flying a lightweight flying machine, with her pet dog held up by a small helium balloon, approaches a flying bus of the General Air Car Company Ltd

Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire - The Beach. Date: 1906

Future Prediction - Flying Machines in the Year 2000
Future Prediction - How flying Machines would transform everyday life in the Year 2000 (as one flies over the Rhine...) - for him, for her and for the whole family! Date: 1900

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