Meters Collection

Hotel chefs relaxing, Central London
Chefs outside a Central London hotel take a break from their labours, in the fresh air. Date: circa 1950s

Edison Incandescent Lamps, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Edison Incandescent Lamps and Meters, United States Section of Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

100 M. 1928 OLYMPICS
The start of the mens 100 meters race. Percy Williams (CAN) won gold, Jack London (GBR) won silver and Georg Lammers (GER) won bronze. Date: 1928

Dunkirk, France - Tower Leughenaer
Dunkirk, France. The Leughenaer Tower is an octagonal tower 30 meters high in the centre of Dunkirk. Built in 1450, this tower is the oldest monument in the city

Japan - the Foreign settlement of Kobe
Lantern slide of the Foreign settlement of Kob鮠 When Kobe port was opened in 1868 after two centuries of isolation policy by the country

Community heating by G. H. Davis
Community heating: a system which keeps an entire town warm and abolishes household drudgery. A central power station provides a day

Bunker Hill monument, Charlestown, Boston
Built to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major conflict between British and Patriot forces in the American revolutionary war

Parachute Jump 1929
1500 meters above Hawaii, a parachutist jumps from a U.S. Navy biplane Date: 1929

Japan - A Peculiar Native Bridge at Sumi-Yoshi
Lantern slide of a Peculiar Native Bridge at Sumi-Yoshi. Bridge has very high arch. Soribashi is one of the representative structures of Sumiyoshi-taisha Shrine

Switzerland - Basel, Old Bridge and Three Kings Hotel
Coloured lantern slide depicting a view of the Three Kings Hotel, Basel. Old Bridge can be seen in the foreground, as can the River Rhine

China - Peking Observatory. The Beijing Ancient Observatory
Lantern slide of Peking (Beijing) Observatory. The Beijing Ancient Observatory - a pretelescopic observatory located in Beijing, China

Switzerland - Lucerne and the Rigi
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Lucerne, Switzerland with Mount Rigi in the background. Rigi is known as the Queen of the Mountains, with the highest point at 1, 797.5 meters

Keeping a check on fuel consumed by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: keeping a weekly check on the fuel consumed in an average household during the Second World War. Electricity and gas meters will tell you if you are keeping to your proper average

MALTA. Rabat. Catacombs of Saint Paul. Saint

Interior of the Central Dome, with a view toward the Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889. Date 1889

Welding equipment
Atlantic Blaugas Co. Painting of three tanks in a cabinet, with meters and tubes; center tank has Atlantic Blaugas Co. logo with a main office address in Manhattan, and a factory a

A German telescopic field-periscope
A photograph of a German army field-periscope captured by the French army in 1916. The device, whose telescopic tube could be extended up to twenty-five meters in height

On board the luxury liner, L Atlantique, the central stree
On board the French luxury liner, L Atlantique. A unusual feature at the time, the central street of shops, over 150 meters long, with the spacious embarkation hall

Creswell colliery, where eighty men perished in a fire. Aeri
Creswell colliery where eighty miners perished in a fire at the junction of two conveyer belts. An aerial view showing ambulances approaching the pithead and anxious families gathered at the offices

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