Machines Collection (page 7)

DUMONTS TURBINE
Dumonts atmospheric turbine Date: 1884

WINDMILL AT CHESTERTON
The windmill at Chesterton, Warwickshire, built in 1632 to a design attributed to Inigo Jones Date: 19th century

BOYS AND VENDING MACHINE
A group of boys in their school uniform (shorts) gather round a vending machine to wait for their cold drink. Date: 1960s

VENDING MACHINE / LABELS
A vending machine allows you to print out your own labels. A leather gloved hand reaches out for the finished item. Date: 1960s

TURNING A WINDLASS
Six men turning a windlass, a mechanical device with a horizontal axis for hauling or hoisting Date: 1803

FURNACE OF STEAM ENGINE
The furnace, boilers and temperature gauge of a fully operating steam engine Date: early 19th century

OSTEND / BATHING MACHINES
Ostend: bathing machines Date: circa 1905

DONKEY-POWERED MILL
A Roman donkey-driven Asinus or Jumentarioe Mill. Date: Ancient Rome

VENDING MACHINE / CHOCOLAT
A woman putting money into a vending machine selling chocolate and confectionery. Date: 1960s

PHOTOCOPY / VENDING / 1960S
A vending machine offering a photocopying service Docustat which will cost 2 shillings and take 30 seconds. Date: 1960s

Hyde Park Steamed Up
HYDE PARK AS IT WILL BE Londons Park is invaded by steam-powered vehicles Date: 1846

LIFT ASSISTANT
A lift girl opens the lift doors and waits outside the lift in her uniform. Date: 1930s

SCOTTISH HAND-MILL C18
A Scottish handmill (2-part Quern) used for grinding up small quantities of corn. Date: 1769

TURBINES AT NIAGARA FALL
A view of the turbines installed at Niagara Falls Date: circa 1895

Rocking-chair with fan 1893
Woman relaxing in the summer sun with a mechanical rocking-chair connected to a fan. Date: 1893

PAPINS HYDRAULIC MACHINE
Papins Hydraulic machine. Date: 1686

MACHINES ALLEGORISED
LA MECANIQUE allegorical design depicting the angel of mechanics, fire in one hand, a locomotive in the other, against a background of machinery Date: circa 1890

BOYS IN LAUNDRETTE
Three teenage boys using a laundrette as a place in which to meet and socialise Date: 1960s

WATER WHEEL MECHANISMS
Diagrams to show how different designs of water wheel work Date: 1819

MILL WHEEL AT DUNSTER
The wheel of the water mill at Dunster, Somerset Date: 1954

ADVENTURE MACHINES
In time to come, some will give up consciousness to live the false life of the Adventure Machines, anticipating our virtual reality machines Date: 1930

SYDNEY STREET / PHOTO
A street scene in Sydney showing shop signs, pedestrians and horse carriages. Date: circa 1900

RAMSGATE WINDMILL 1817
A windmill near Ramsgate (towards Pegwell) Date: 1817

NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE
The worlds greatest sewing machine is the New Home made by Gonyea and Alba of Rutland, Vermont, enabling repairs to be carried out in situ Date: circa 1905

DE DION BOUTON ADVERT
DE DION BOUTON powered tricycle available with steel or wooden rims and with thicker tyres as an option Date: circa 1894

PUMP AND WINDMILL
Pumping water with power from a windmill Date: circa 1760

INDUSTRY / MACHINES / STEAM
Gwynnes steam pumping engine Date: Late 19th Century

WATER RAM 1821
WATER RAM Date: 1821

Great Exhibition, cotton machines 1851
A perspective view, looking West, of Messrs. Hibbert and Platts cotton machines and Messrs. Hick and Sons high- pressure steam-engine and driving gear. Date: 1851

Cotton machines at the Great Exhibition 1851
A perspective view, looking East, of Messrs. Hibbert and Platts cotton machines amd Messrs. Hick and Sons high- pressure steam-engine and driving gear. Date: 1851

HOUSEHOLD / LAUNDRY / MANGLE
Mangles and washing machines Date: 1884

VIEW OF DAWLISH
General view of the beach at Dawlish in Devon. Along the beach there are several bathing machines. Date: 1892

EDOUX LIFT 1887
He sits, she stands, as they make their vertical journey together in the EDOUX ascenseur Date: 1887

ELECTRIC LIFTS
Electric, and hydro-electric, lifts Date: 1895

TEAGLE
A teagle used in the cotton mills of Lancashire to facilitate passage from one level to another Date: circa 1850

MACHINES / EXCAVATOR
EXCAVATOR Date: 1901

International Electric Exhibition 1882
Interior of International Electric Exhibition at Crystal Palace, showing Edison Exhibit and Siemens chandeliers. Date: 1882

Boring machine used in the Hoosac tunnel 1869
Workers using a primitive boring machine to make the tunnel, lying between Switzerland and Italy, being thirty-six miles long and about twenty-five feet broad

CRIMEA / RUSSIAN MINES
British ships Merlin and Firefly struck by Russian infernal machines (mines) Date: 1854

Bathing Machine - Boulogne
Bathing machines at Boulogne Date: circa 1903

NASMYTH STEAM HAMMER
STEAM HAMMER - Original drawings for Nasmyths Steam Hammer

Hastings Beach
On the beach, Carlisle Parade, Hastings, Sussex : note the rows of bathing machines, and the fishing boats beyond drying their sails. Date: circa 1905

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - First Publication
The Martian Fighting- Machines wreck the railways. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Sheffield Steel manufactures 1866
Sheffield : scythe-grinders. Date: 1866

Hoes ten feeder printing machine 1871
Richard Hoes printing machine with ten feeds. Date: 1871

Family Group pose for a photograph at Margate
Family Group posing for a photograph on the sandy beach at Margate. Note the bathing machines out in the water beyond them. circa 1910s

London Trades: Locksmiths - The City Farrier - Gold-Beaters
Traditional London trades: (top left) Locksmiths cutting key-barrels on a machine which is 140 years old at the works of the Bramah Lock Company (top right)

Hartleys Jam Works, Aintree, Merseyside - Box-making Dept
Hartleys Jam Works, Aintree, Merseyside - The Box-making Department, capable of making 3000 boxes daily! The boxes being manufactured here are for exporting to America where they term the jars as

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