Machines Collection (page 11)

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

Biomedical centre, London -- a woman attaches sensors to a patient. Date: 1972

View of factory, Our Boys Clothing Company, Holborn
View of the factory in Our Boys Clothing Company, 26 Holborn Viaduct. Date: c.1895

View of work room in Our Boys Clothing Company, Oxford St
View of the work room in Our Boys Clothing Company, Oxford Street, London. Image depicts a room full of women using sewing machines. Date: c.1895

Eisleben Water Raising Machine. William Richards, Hettstedt, 1813. This engine was used until 1885 in Eisleben for pumping water out of a copper mine

Float. Leonardos drawing. Codex Atlanticus, sheet 656, 1485
Water and Land Machines. Float. Its function is that troops can cross the river. Leonardos drawing. Codex Atlanticus, sheet 656, 1485-1490. Model by Luigui Tursini, 1952

Parabolic bridge. Model by Ermenegildo Menighetti, 1952-1953. Leonardos drawing (Codex Atlanticus, sheet 855, 1480-90). The science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Leonardesque model. Work machines. Winch. Codex Atlanticus
Leonardesque model. Work machines. Winch. Leonardo describes a winch that can transform the alternated motion of a lever in the continuous circular motion of a shaft. Codex Atlanticus, shett 30v

Flower Market in Hong Kong, China
Flower Market on a sloping street in Hong Kong, China. Adverts are for the new Nohorn Machines (record player) and Graca & Co postcard and stamp dealer. Date: circa 1910

Singer Sewing Machines - workers leaving factory
Singer Sewing Machine - workers leaving factory. 1932

Bathing at Brighton during the holidays - young women emerge from a bathing machine. circa 1900s

Future New York - The City of Skyscrapers - with high-level roads and railways and numerous flying craft. Date: 1916

London Tube Station
Passengers queueing for tickets at an London Underground tube station leading to the Victoria Line. Note the old ticket vending machines in old money! Date: 1960s

16th Century Windmill
Cross section of a 16th Century windmill Date: 1588

Harley Davidson Cig Card
Harley Davidson with sidecar. Date: 1923

Trevithicks Waterwheel
Richard Trevithick seniors water wheel at Cooks Kitchen mine, Cornwall 1778

Stephenson Beam Engine
Beam engine designed by George Stephenson, started at the Stephenson works in 1823 Date: 1823

Paper Printing Machine
A machine for printing the lines on paper for accountants ledgers. Date: mid 19th century

Hocquarts Escalator
Hocquarts escalator system Date: 1906

Escalator in Action
An escalator in action and a detail of its mechanism as seen in New York Date: 1893

Advert for J. W Rowe & Co. electrical massage apparatus 1902
Heath in every home! by using Rogers consoidated electrical massage and medical apparatus. Claims to cures lots of alliaments. 1902

Mechanical Power 1827
A machinist demonstrates the scale of the new industrial machinery as he operates a huge vice. Date: 1827

Dutch Windmill 1960S
A windmill in Holland. Date: 1966

Hensons Aerial Carriage
HENSONs AERIAL STEAM CARRIAGE the most practicable of the early projects : though it never flew, it was a remarkable prevision of the flying machines to come. Date: 1843

Industry / Machines / Steam
Pumping engine at Buffalo USA Date: 1880

Flight / Fantasy / Air Polic
A prediction of a policeman giving chase to a thief using air machines. Date: 1885

Alien Spacecraft
With monstrous aerial machines the inhabitants of other planets will reach our Earth and make it one of their colonies - an alien spacecraft attacks Earth Date: 1933

AUTOMATION
By the year 2000, factory workers will be no more than machine minders, controlling automated machines Date: 1911

Advert for Marshalls patent freezer 1899
Mrs. A. B Marshalls patent freezer, showing a fan inside which remains still while the pan revolves and scrapes up the film of ice as it forms on the bottom of the pan. Date: 1899

A large circular saw. Date: 1898

French steam thresher
A French steam thresher, constructed by Renaud, Nantes Date: 1862

Cigar makers demonstraion in Havana
In Havana, Cuba, the cigar- makers demonstrate in protest against the mechanisation of their trade Date: 1928

Ice-making machine 1883
Latest novelty machine that freezed the crystals that made ice and ices, ice creams and ice puddings, ready moulded for the table in six minutes with ice and salt. Date: 1883

Advertisement, IBM Corporation
Advertisement, IBM (International Business Machines) Corporation -- speeding business through electronics. 1950

Advert for Mullers tea & coffee dipensers
Selection of tea or coffee Counter Muller machines

Advert for H. W Garrard & Son domestic equipment 1889
Domestic machinery including a rotary knife - cleaning machine and a mincer machine. 1889

Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - Farm School Tailors Shop
Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - boys sit cross legged or at sewing machines in the Farm School tailors shop. Date: 1890s

Locomotive manufacture - Great Western Railway, Swindon
Steam locomotive manufacturing processes in the works of the Great Western Railway (GWR), Swindon Date: 1854

Monks in Franciscan Mission, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Monks at work in the Sewing Room of the Franciscan Mission, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Date: 1899

Newspaper rotary printing machine 1908
Newspaper rotary printing machine, by Walter Scott & Co, Plainfield Date: 1908

Paignton, photograph taken from the pier, of Sands beach, portable bathing lined up ready for the onslaught of travers. 1895

Thor 30, folding elecrtic ironer 1929
Thor 30, folding elecrtic ironer, the operator (a woman) has merely to sit in a comfortable chair, turn a switch and guide the pieces through, electrically operated

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