Machines Collection (page 5)

Ladies undressing in a bathing machine. Date: circa 1910

REVOLUTION POSTER/1936-9
A poster from the anarchist groups, CNT & AIT, proclaims Peasants! The revolution, apart from giving you land, will give you machines to work it Date: 1936 - 1939

ADVENTURE MACHINES
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (L Manning and Fletcher Pratt) people who have given up their consciousness to live the false life of the Adventure Machines... Date: 1930

The New Shaving-Machine (suggested by a recent invention). Emperor of Russia, Nicholas I, sits in the shaving-machine chair in John Bull and Louis Nap(olean)s Easy Shaving Shop

Ray-Lamp Treatments 1928
Strange metal Blinkers to achieve beauty: A client taking a Ray-Lamp treatment, exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition. Date: 1928

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - The Home Front
The Caption is The Home Front. WW2 was the first war in which all the people back at home were directly involved. Bombing raids brought death and destruction

The Visit of King George V to the Royal Show, Norwich in 1911. Here, the King is examining the Stand of H. Bamford and Sons. Date: 1911

Brochure cover for Rolls Twin Tub washing machines, featuring the smiling face of a happy early 1960s housewife... Date: 1961

Cover design, W J Harris & Co Ltd Sewing Machines Cover design
Cover design, W J Harris & Co Ltd, Sewing Machines brochure. 1920s

London Underground station booking hall, with automatic ticket machines at different prices. Date: circa 1930

London Underground ticket and change giving machine, issuing twopenny tickets. Date: 1928

Public laundries, Marshall Street, London 1900
Interior of a public wash-house with women wringing out wet clothes on mangles and folding them. 1900

St. Pancras Baths and Washhouses
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the St. Pancras Baths and Washhouses, with illustrations of both the inferior and superior bathing facilities and the washing

Machine in a bookbinding workshop, City of London
Cloth embossing machine in a bookbinding workshop, Westley and Clark, Shoemaker Row, City of London. Date: 1842

Board cutting in a bookbinding workshop, City of London
Board cutting machine in a bookbinding workshop, Westley and Clark, Shoemaker Row, City of London. Date: 1842

Singer sewing machine. 1897

Adverts, John Marshall & Co, The Eclipse Tool Mfg Co
Adverts for John Marshall & Co, Clyde Boiler Works, Motherwell, and The Eclipse Tool Manufacturing Co, Linwood, near Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Advert, Pfaff Sewing Machines. 1897

Advert for The Adder Adding Machine. 1909

Listening to the phonograph
Men in top hats listening to the recently invented phonograph. 1893

Part of Scarborough, drawn by John Leech 1857
Victorian mainly women and children having a ride on carriage around the beach. 1857

Bathing at Brighton, Sussex 1901
Bathing at Brighton, Sussex. Date: 1901

Tatler Cover, Summer Number 1954
Front cover of The Tatler Summer Number with a stylised illustration of a seaside resort in the Edwardian era with bathing beauties being surprised by a lusty looking Neptune in the water. Date: 1954

Pictures on the wireless! New wonder for B. B. C audience 1928
Diagram showing the new way in which the B.B.C will broadcast photographs and drawings. 1928

Film bought from a slot-machine 1928
The wide use of mechanical salesmen : A purchaser getting a film from a slot-machine in Copenhagen, this was used outside a merchants shop to maintain the sale of their wares when the shop is closed

Fruit bought from a slot-machine 1928
Shopping by a slot-machine in Copenhagen after closing. This slot-machine selling fruit was situated outside a merchants shop to maintain the sale of food when the shop was closed. 1928

Start of a Brooklands Double-Twelve Race with drivers and mechanics running to their machines. 20th century

Augustus Applegath and Edward Cowpers printing machine 1833
The invention of a steam powered rotary printing machine revolutionised the western world and opened large opportunities of mass distribution of books and news publications. 1833

Advert, Thomas Bradford, Steam Power Laundry Machinery
Advertisement, Thomas Bradford & Co, Steam Power Laundry and Dairy Machinery. circa 1900

Advert, Richard Garrett & Son, Agricultural Engineers
Advertisement, Richard Garrett & Son, Agricultural Engineers and Machinists, Leiston, Suffolk. 1862

Lyalls patent postive motion loom
James Lyall from New York, showing his new and patent power loom. Date: 1869

An early sewing machine. 1856

Textile Industry - Weaving - Mr Austins Engine Loom
British Textile Industry Machinery - Weaving - Mr Austins Engine Loom. Date: 1814

Woollen Manufacturing - Slubbing Machine or Billy. Date: 1811

Authropoglossos St. Jamess Hall, Piccadilly
Authropoglossos or mechanical large vocalist dummy head, made of wax and ornamented with that profusion of hair and beard, in the month he wears a large tin funnel

Automata newsboy and flower girl 1887
Aut-omata aut nullus, erected by the anti-street Brawling association, to replace newsboys and flower girls. Date: 1887

Hardy Patent Pick Co. bone grinder 1890s
The Devil, Disintegrator, bone grinder and mixer. This machine will grind to powder, granulate or shed any material, animal and vegetable, wet or dry at one operation. Date: 1890s

Westwood Works in Peterborough, WW1
Westwood Works in Peterborough in production during the First World War. Lithographic print by Rudolph Ihlee. 1918

At the Laundrette - People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1960s

Advert for W. & T Avery, Duplex Coffee Mill. 1888
Patent Duplex Coffee Mill grind twice as fast. Date: 1888

Church Street, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Date: circa 1900s

Tompkins yarn spooler 1875
Floor standing yarn spooler, simple construction for winding skein yarn upon spools for sewing machines, intended principally for hosiery manufactures. 1875

Barrel leveling, trussing and hooping machine 1875
Two separate devices, the first by a machine which compresses the barrel end wise between two disks and other by iron hooks

Machine for bending the barrel hoops 1875
This operator bending the barrel hoops. Date: 1875

Robot Godfrey at Health of the People exhibition 1948
Front cover of the Illustrated London News, 15th May 1948 showing Godfrey, the mechanical man at the Health of the People exhibition at Marble Arch in 1948

A scouting squadron drawn up in line with pilots & mechanics
Eighteen aircraft, all of the same pattern, drawn up in line with pilots and mechanics posing next to them. Large distinguishing letters appear on the upper planes

Advert for Thornhills portable weighing machine 1895
Portable polished oak and carpet platform personal weighing machine. 1895

Advert for Rudge Whitworth Cycles 1895
Advertisement of Rudge Whitworth Cycles, manufacture of bicycle for leisure, race and business. 1895

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