Method Collection (page 10)

NFS firefighter rolling out fire hose, WW2
A London Region NFS firefighter in an instructional photograph demonstrating the correct method of rolling out a line of hose

South Africa - Transfer by basket at East London
South Africa - Passengers transferred by basket from the Mail Steamer at East London Date: circa 1910s

To the right hon able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved sic rollers

Platinum mining in the Ural Mountains - the cleaning process. The Urals run north to south through western Russia, from the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan. Date: circa 1903

Maiolica Plate - A Maiolica painter at work. Italian (Caffaggiolo) c.1515. Date: circa 1515

Filtering drinking water - Cairo, Egypt. An egyptian man has collected water from the River Nile in his animal skin container and now transfers this water to a large terracotta pot

Irish Jaunting Cars
Jaunting Cars, still a favourite method of carrying tourists, at Ross Castle, near Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. Date: 1950s

Hand-Feeding a Puppy
A tiny premature or runt puppy is hand reared, by inserting a fine plastic feeding tube into its mouth. The lives of thousands of puppies each year are saved by this method. Date: late 1960s

Japanese Straw Boaters
If we MUST bring back the straw hat, why not copy the Japanese method of popularising it? Three straw boaters, worn with advertising sandwich boards! Date: 1933

Mineral Analyser
The TELSEC portable non- dispersive X-ray mineral analyser offers a fast method of measuring selected elements in ores, soils, slags, etc. Date: November 1970

Djibouti, East Africa - Hairdressers
Djibouti, East Africa - Traditional methods of hairdressing. Date: circa 1910s

Oiling and Coaling on land
Light labour and hard labour: oiling and coaling on land. The new method and the old- a contrast. The top image shows a torpedo boat taking in oil fuel through a hose linking her with a tank in

Oiling and Coaling in mid-ocean
Bunkering at sea: oiling and coaling in mid-ocean. The new method and the old- a contrast. The top drawing show the simple

View of Rome
An imaginary view of Rome in a marginal drawing. In front of the city stand two men, one of whom is wearing armour. There are birds flying over their heads

Bert Ralton and his New York Havana Band, c. 1922
Bert Ralton and his New York Havana Band recording c. 1922, using the acoustic method. Date: c.1922

COACH AND HORSES SIGN
A very fine inn sign illustrating the method of travelling in bygone days - the Coach and Horses, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1950s

Bowls at Country House
A gentleman instructs an elegant lady on the best method of playing her bowl. Date: 1893

Why Captain Scott did not rely wholly on dogs
Page from The Sphere with drawings and photographs of the huskies used in Captain Scotts first polar expedition in 1901-4

Met Police stopwatch -- outer casing
A Metropolitan Police issue stopwatch for the purpose of catching speeding motorists. This method worked on the principle of timing motorists over specific distances to estimate their speed

Cutting cauliflowers near St Michaels Mount, Cornwall
Three men in Cornwall cutting cauliflowers in the traditional manner and loading them onto a tractor, with St Michaels Mount in the background

Moving hay on a pulley system - Hardanger, Western Norway
West Norway - Hardanger. Moving a large bundle of hay up and down a steep slope on an elaborate and rather remarkable string and pulley system

Diagram showing The Detector
Undated diagram showing " The Detector", a method for testing substances in a glass bottle using brass terminals and a cylinder to feel the " etheric reactions". HPG/85/8"

Mendi Expedition. The native method of firing a cannon
The native method of firing a cannon (lighting it and sprinting away) during the Mendi expedition in Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1898

Quick Cricket
A new method of giving both sides a chance of getting in an innings when playing one- day matches Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary

Down to Bed-rock
An intelligent method of overcoming a difficult problem. An ingenious method of taking at shot at a golf ball at the bottom of a pond

The Alexandra Park Horse Show, London, 1875
Engraving showing members of the Four in Hand and Coaching Clubs enjoying their chosen sport/method of transport at the Alexandra Park Horse Show of 1875

Germans - Button Magnets
A new method of German frightfulness as magnets are used to attract buttons away from the braces of British soldiers by a German plane and thus render em incapacitated

A Legal Method of thrashing out grain or forestallers & regr
Profiteers vomit and disgorge products they have monopolised while Lord Chief Justice Kenyon threshes them with a flail enforcing the repealed laws against forestallers and regraters. Date: 1800

Borneo / Dyak Drying Heads
The Dyak method of drying heads. The enemys head is cut off, the brains scooped out before being hung (as shown) on a rod of bamboo

A converted bus for pigeons
A motor bus converted into a home, or cote, for French carrier pigeons. Pigeons, along with dogs, proved to be a vital method of communication during battles

Professor Arthur Korn, with his telegraph photographic machi
Professor Arthur Korn with his tele-photographic apparatus. Korn developed a method of transmitting photographs through telephone wires. In 1907 he produced the first facsimile telegraph

Miming a gesture, the method of registering sunshine, posed
Human speech the result of a variety of movements made by the muscles which control the lungs. A typical deaf-mute gesture, the sign language for sunshine

Dr. Howard Demonstrating Resuscitation, Royal Humane Society
Engraving showing Dr. Howard, Medical Officer of New York Harbour, demonstrating his resusciation technique at the Receiving House of the Royal Humane Society, Hyde Park, London 1878

Wampum Message
Wampum beadwork is not merely a decorative object, but is a method of recording treaties, agreements, historic events and the like, which it is desired to preserve

Transporting patients through busy London streets
Method of transporting patients before the introduction of ambulances. In 1905 a proposal was put forward to Parliament to establish and maintain a street ambulance service

Four bearers and patient (2 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (2 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (1 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (1 of 6)

Two bearers and patient (1 of 2)
Method of lifting a patient onto a stretcher, with two bearers. (1 of 2)

Four bearers and patient (5 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (5 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (6 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (6 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (3 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (3 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (4 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (4 of 6)

First aid, carrying patient using three interlocked hands
First aid, method of carrying a patient using three interlocked hands

Bilz Sanatorium / 1898
Advert. for Bilz Sanatorium, for the natural method of healing

Vet Inoculates
A vet inoculates sheep against carbunce at Agerville, using Pasteurs method

Casting / Firing a Horse
The Newly approved method of casting and fireing. A horse is firmy restrained with ropes before branding with a hot poker

Cooking Christmas Goose
An old lady in overalls cooks her Christmas goose on an open fire. She uses an old method, whereby the goose is suspended by and revolves on twisted worsted. Somerset, England

Temporary Pile Bridge
A temporary bridge is built by French engineers, utilising planks laid on piles embedded in the river bed, a more solid and reliable method than laying them on boats

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