Mechanical Collection (page 6)

Statue of James Watt, Westminster Abbey, London
Statue of James Watt (1736-1819), Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer in Westminster Abbey, London. Date: 1903

Mechanical Pieces, Plate 186, showing a range of items including a bird tree with clock, a monkey conjuror or magician, a sleeping beauty, a woman at a sewing machine, a bird in a cage

Internal Combustion Engines. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

Steam engines. Room inside. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

Hydraulic saw. Codex Atlanticus, sheet 1078, 1478-1480. Desi
Hydraulic saw. Mechanical saw works with hydraulic energy. Leonardo da Vinci drawing. Codex Atlanticus, sheet 1078, 1478-1480

Ramon Batlle Ribas (1837-1906). Photography
Ramon Batlle Ribas (1837-1906). Spanish technical and textile teacher. Founder of the first school for teaching mechanical tissue

Woman police officer checking under a car, London
Woman police officer (Deirdre O Donoghue) checking under a car, probably during driving training. Date: circa 1960s

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

Elegant Bakery Furnaces
The elegant furnaces of the mechanical bakery in the Avenue de l Opera, Paris Date: 1885

Dathis Mechanical Knead
Dathiss petrin mechanique (mechanical kneader) Date: 1885

Greyhound racing - canine actors in the limelight
Sketches at White City greyhound racing stadium when the sport was enjoying a meteoric rise in popularity. A stadium was established in Manchester in 1926

Washing / Equip / Soap Disp
A mechanical soap dispenser from Germany Date: 1900

Variety of brooms and carpet sweepers 1929
A page from a 1929 catalogue showing a variety of brooms and lightweight carpet sweepers. Date: 1929

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Crackers dog show inventions (with the authors apologies to Heath Robinson). Smoothing the Scotch Collie, Pampering the Pom, and Improving the Kerry Blues Beard

World War One NCOs, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire
World War One NCOs, Chipping Sodbury, near Yate, Gloucestershire, England. Showing NCOs Mechanical Transport Company 494 of the Army Service Corps Date: 1910s

BABBAGE, Charles (1792-1871). English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for originating the concept of a programmable computer. Engraving

Albert Fileux, engineer, passenger of John Moisant
Albert Fileux, mechanical engineer, passenger of John Moisant on many of his pioneering flights, including a cross-Channel trip from France to Britain on 17 August 1910. Date: circa 1910

Chimes
An automated musical instrument that chimes, somewhat similar to those used in miniature in musical boxes. See picture 10809687 for a similar chiming machine in action

Suffragette Toy Votes for Women. A suffragette with votes for women flag is pushed along by a policeman in this ingenious mechanical toy

Firefighters operating a Dennis breakdown lorry (commissioned at HQ on 3 April 1936)

Dennis breakdown lorry, demonstrating wrong method
Firefighters operating a Dennis breakdown lorry (commissioned at HQ on 3 April 1936), demonstrating the wrong method of lifting and towing the front axle

Sir Vincent Raven
Sir Vincent Litchfield Raven KBE (3 December 1859 14 February 1934), chief mechanical engineer of the North Eastern Railway from 1910 to 1922

Sperry automatic computing gun sight by G. H. Davis
A mechanical brain: the Sperry automatic computing gun sight, in use during the Second World War. An invention which enabled US bombers to target a large number of enemy fighters. Date: 1944

Types of German tank by G. H. Davis
The four principal types of German tank during the Second World War: heavy and light mechanical cavalry. Top left: light tank (short type). Bottom left: light tank (long type)

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

Toasting the tank, Christmas 1916
Secondary front cover of The War Illustrated magazine featuring an illustration of British soldiers toasting a tank, comparatively a new-comer into the arean of battle

Tracked machine guns and in fights by G. H. Davis
Mechanical supports for the infantry of the British Army as depicted by ILN special diagrammatic artist, G. H. Davis, showing tankettes with trailer wagons for transporting machine-guns together with

Canals, construction technique
A detailed engraving of a 16th century canal construction technique that somewhat resembles a conveyor belt. Date: 1588

Windmill, 16th century
A technical engraving of a 16th century windmill. Date: 1588

Complex 16th Century Pulley System
A complex and technical design of a 16th century pulley system. Date: 1588

Industrial Machine - Pulley system
Illustration of a 1588 Industrial Machine made up of a pulley system designed for heavy lifting. Date: 1588

The Gentle Art of Excavating - Latest Type of Grab Crane
The latest type of grab crane clearing out a small pond on Hampstead Heath. A typically rickety and convoluted crane goes through the ridiculous process of clearing out a tiny pond on Hampstead

Two women working in a garage, repairing vehicles

Mechanical water raising device
1588 complex mechanical water raising device that uses the current to lift large quantities of water. Date: 1588

Frederic Sauvage
FREDERIC SAUVAGE French mechanical engineer known for his work on the marine propeller. Date: 1785 - 1857

Alexis Sauvage
ALEXIS SAUVAGE French mechanical engineer whose fame has not outlived him, unlike others of his name.. Date: CIRCA 1860

Mechanical Milking
A dairy farmer in Lincolnshire, England, putting a mechanical milking device on a Fresian cows udders. Date: 1960s

Henry Hele-Shaw
HENRYs HELE-SHAW Professor of mechanical engineering at Liverpool U. known for work in fluid dynamics and especially the Hele-Shaw Cell. Date: 1854 - 1941

A model of the Nord Griffon at the 12th Louis Blriot Le?
A model of the Nord Griffon at the 12th Louis Blriot Lecture on 12 March 1959 at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage walk, London

General Nol Daum, Technical Director, Nord Aviation, de?
General Nol Daum, Technical Director, Nord Aviation, delivers the 12th Louis Blriot Lecture on 12 March 1959 at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage walk, London

Prior to the 12th Louis Blriot Lecture on 12 March 1959?
Prior to the 12th Louis Blriot Lecture on 12 March 1959 at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage walk, London, Sir Arnold Hall, RAeS President 1958-1959

The 12th Louis Blriot Lecture on 12 March 1959 at the I?
The 12th Louis Blriot Lecture on 12 March 1959 at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage walk, London. The lecture was given by General Nol Daum, Technical Director, Nord Aviation

Algiers, Algeria - Harvesting by Mechanical & handheld means Date: 1910

Guinness Clock at Battersea Festival Pleasure Garden
The Guinness Clock at Battersea Festival Pleasure Gardens - one of the famous attractions of the Festival of Britain, London, England. Date: 1951

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 5000 Dinar
The Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 5000 Dinar, bearing the portrait of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer

Mechanical Engineering Building, Wisconsin University
Mechanical Engineering Building - University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Date: circa 1930s

Soviet Armenia - Cheese Factory
Soviet Armenia - Kalinin Mechanical Steam Cheese Plant No.1 - Foreman Akushev inspects the pressed round cheeses. Date: circa 1930s

Using a Singer Sewing Machine on the Caroline Islands - a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Date: 1894

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