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MONTESSORI (1870 - 1952)Doctor MARIA MONTESSORI Italian medical and educator, first woman in Italy to obtain a medical degree; pioneered child education methods
British 25-pounder field gun by G. H. DavisConsidered at the time to be the best field gun in the world: the British 25-pounder. Diagrammatic drawings of a famous British weapon
How Navajo Indian Rugs are made - USA Date: circa 1930s
Scenes of peasant working life, IrelandThese illustrations show women and men engaged in activities such as carding wool, spinning, sowing, threshing, minnowing and scutching
German inventions for war in the air by G. H. DavisThe ingenuity of German scientists applied to the war in the air. Illustrating the methods and machines exploited and used by the Germans during the Second World War. Date: 1945
Sport / Martial Arts / KendoTwo warriors practise Kendo, the way of the sword. Kendo is derived from ancient samurai (warrior class) fighting methods
Remedial GymnasticsDiagram to show methods of curative gentle exercise
Johannes Gutenberg, German goldsmith and printerJohannes Gutenberg (Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg), German goldsmith and printer. He invented mechanical movable type and thereby began a revolution in book printing
Methods of escape from submarine by G. H. DavisThe latest methods of escape from a sunken submarine: the rescue bell, the one-man escape chamber, and escape without the use of breathing apparatus. 1954
New German incendiary bomb by G. H. DavisDetails of the new German explosive incendiary bomb produced during the Second World War. Explanatory drawings showing how the bomb is constructed, and the proper methods of tackling it. Date: 1942
British soldier bears to the firing line WWIDouble page showing a British private soldier, commonly know as a Tommy, showing a diagram of tools and equipment that he would have carried when marching to the trenches in World War One. 1915
Launching of V2 rocket bombs by G. H. DavisThe launching of V2 rocket bombs during the Second World War: an official photograph and its explanation. On the left: a scene at Peenemunde, birthplace of the V2
Japanese ways of chivalry: a display of ancient fighting methods by the Budokwai in London at the Aeolian Hall. Wielding "saucepan lids", sickle and chain
Aerial photography by G. H. DavisAerial photography by the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit of the RAF: details of cameras and methods in use during the Second World War. Date: 1944
Medical / Instruments / 1739Diagram to show the various methods used for opening veins and performing blood transfusions
Lesson in AgricultureA group of farmworkers receive instruction in agricultural methods
Primitive Stone Age people, Kazakhstan areaPrimitive Stone Age people using ancient fire lighting methods. In the background are foragers harvesting. 8700-2000 BCE
Smelting Furnace - Sierra Leone, West AfricaSmelting in a bloomery-type furnace in Sierra Leone, West Africa. circa 1910s
Helena Rubinstein advertisementAdvertisement for Helena Rubinstein of Grafton Street, London, specifically hormone creams claiming to recreate vital glandular elements of " first youth". Date: 1932
Rural English Soft Cheesemaker - preparing formed rounds of local cheese. Date: 1900s
Attempt to divert river PeihoThe attempts of diverting the river Peiho and flood the surround country. The picture shows the camp at Hoshiwu, which is half way between Tientsin and Pekin
Photographs of methods of escape and rescue from fire, indoor and outdoor scenes. Captioned Help for the unconscious and the conscious: Fire ??Escapes??. Date: 1911
FEDERAL SENTINELA Federal sentry is shot by a Secessionist sniper : such methods of fighting were considered most ungentlemanly and contrary to accepted standards of military conduct. Date: 1861
Golden Soil: French methods of Market Gardening for England, showing scenes from the Market Garden at Thatcham, Berkshire. Date: 1908
Colonel Ashley with Chelsea Pensioners, WW1Colonel Ashley explaining modern signal methods to Chelsea Pensioners during the First World War. 1914-1918
United States Air Force - Boeing RB-50F Superfortress 47-159 (msn 15843), built as a B-50B-60-BO, 47-159 was modified for reconnaissance with navigational radar, cameras and ElINT equipment
Pulled-Sugar Flowers Date: 1935
Piped Flower Samples Date: 1935
Arab Women carrying large Amphorae - Cairo, EgyptArab Women carrying large water Amphorae - Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1904
New methods with the deaf and dumb 1906Interesting photographs of the method used in the early 1900s to help children learn to communicate. Date: 1906
NEW FARMING METHODSWorkers on a communal farm are given instruction in new farming methods Date: 1951
Temporary Treatment of Bone Fractures, including rifle used as a splint, cricket bat used as a splint, slings, triangular bandages, shawl caps, huntsmans whips used as splint
Methods of Arresting Bleeding with various tourniquets, clamps, manual pressure, forceps, knotted handkerchiefs and bandages. Date: circa 1880s
Syrian Women making Bread Date: circa 1907
Kitagawa Utamaro print - Watching Divers for ShellfishReproduction of a woodcut by Kitagawa Utamaro (1750-1806) entitled: Watching Divers for Shellfish. Date: circa late 18th century
Diagram of a torpedo by G. H. DavisThe most destructive naval weapon of the Second World War: the torpedo. Its working and methods of firing diagrammatically explained. Date: 1939
South Korea - Joseon Province - Weaving and SpinningSouth Korea - Joseon (Chosen, Choson) Province - Women Weaving and Spinning. Date: circa 1920s
Malaysia - tapping rubber trees Date: circa 1920s
Tibet - A Moment of Suspence - transporting animals on trailTibet - A Moment of Suspence - transporting animals on a narrow Himalayan Mountain trail by means of suspending two poles on ropes and man-handling the animal across. Date: 1907
Disabled Dance ClassDisabled children are taught to dance by teacher Miss Betsy Adlard, using the special methods invented by Miss Margaret Morris. It is difficult for them, but fun. Date: 1930s
Return of the hot water bottles 1946Production of the rubber synthetic hot water bottle in Streatham factory, London, post Second World War. During the War, rubber was reserved for making tires for military trucks
Baling out of a stricken aeroplane by G. H. DavisThe gentle art of baling out: escape technique. How airmen dive and drift to safety through space. The use of the parachute during the Second World War: methods of escape from stricken aeroplanes
Japan - Japanese tea ceremony Date: circa 1905
Tapping a rubber tree in Sri Lanka Date: circa 1910s
Olivier De SerresOLIVIER DE SERRES French agronomist who created a medel farm at Pradel, introduced new plants from other countries, and pioneered new farming methods
Drying Fish on wooden racks - Nordland, Northern Norway. Date: circa 1910s
Lobster Fishing on Sark - lay lines hanging from ringsLobster Fishing on Sark, Channel Islands - lay lines hanging from rings and ladder Date: circa 1906
Hvanneyri model farm, IcelandHvanneyri, one of the model farms, represents the most modern methods of construction in its buildings and the latest methods of cultivation and animal breeding in 1939. Date: 1939
Japan - Winnowing the rice by hand and by machine. Date: circa 1910s
Fishing with cormorants - China. Date: circa 1910s
Faked Spirit photographsFrom: Report of an Investigation into Spirit Photography, Fred Barlow and Major -Rose, Society for Psychical Research, 1933: Faked Spirit photographs showing methods used
How Betty can make a Christmas hankie for mother, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s
Dainty frock of opal hues, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s
Jolly play clothes from daddys shirts, baby creeper and sisters apron, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s
A smart note is added to the sports blouse, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s
A rainbow frockHow to create a rainbow frock using Dy-o-la Dyes, page of instructions in a brochure. Date: 1920s
A chic little turban made from an old scarfPage of instructions in a brochure showing how to dye an old scarf with Dy-o-la Dyes and turn it into a turban -- the craft of Art Dyeing. Also how to make a dolly bag out of an old scarf. Date: 1920s
Simple designs with many usesPage of instructions in a brochure showing how to dye different designs with Dy-o-la Dyes -- the craft of Art Dyeing. Date: 1920s
Delightful shaded scarfs of lovely tintsPage of instructions in a brochure showing how to dye scarves with Dy-o-la Dyes -- the craft of Art Dyeing. Date: 1920s
How Dy-o-la can bring beauty to your homePage in a brochure introducing the craft of Art Dyeing. Date: 1920s
The Feeding of our Expeditionary Army, WW1The Feeding of our Expeditionary Army, showing the methods of transporting food to troops on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914
Tapping a Rubber Tree Date: circa 1920s
Suffragette W. S. P. U Membership CardSuffragette W.S.P.U Membership Card. Womens Social & Political Union membership card showing Objects & Methods with membership pledge. Date: circa 1907
Suffragette W. S. P. U Militant MethodsSuffragette W.S.P.U Militant Methods. Issued by the National Womens Social & Political Union with speech by the Earl of Lytton on the Militant Methods of the W.S.P.U given on June 15th 1909
Suffragette Emily Wilding Davidson Funeral 1913. Funeral procession of Emily Wilding Davidson (1872-1913) in Central London, Saturday, 14th June 1913
Winter rations for British troops in the trenches 1917British commissariat methods: Army ration corps supplying hot food to the men in the trenches at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France; serving hot stew in bad weather often added very
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914 -1917The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: how and whence the expedition proposes to start. Showing the proposed methods of transport from the Weddell Sea Base to the South Pole. Date: 1914
Fighter bombers v. dive bombers by G. H. DavisFighter bombers versus dive bombers during the Second World War: operational methods defined. The dive bomber is vulnerable to fighter attack -- the fighter bomber is a more versatile weapon
Rommels Panzers by G. H. DavisRommels Panzers: details of the PZ Mark IV, and German methods of tank transportation and refuelling during the Second World War. Date: 1942
Defence of British aerodromes by G. H. DavisThe defence of British aerodromes: methods of defence above and under the ground during the Second World War. Date: 1942
Measures for foiling troop carriers by G. H. DavisMeeting the threat of airborne invasion in Britain during the Second World War: suggested measures for foiling German troop carriers
RAF photographic reconnaissance work by G. H. DavisSpying out the enemys secrets from the air: photographic reconnaissance work in the RAF. How the RAF has obtained its great collection of photographs of vital areas in Germany
Fighting oil fires by G. H. DavisFighting oil fires: smothering flames with a blanket of foam. Precautions against fire at oil reservoirs, and methods of extinguishing. Date: 1929
Mending Atlantic cables by G. H. DavisMending earthquake-torn Atlantic cables: methods and tools. How the Atlantic cables broken by the submarine earthquake (18 November) are repaired: perilous work in winter. Date: 1929
Loading ships guns in 1805 and 1935 by G. H. DavisFrom Nelson to Nelson : feeding a ships guns today and in 1805. Loading methods in a modern battleship and at Trafalgar: contrasts after 130 years of naval gunnery. Date: 1935
Air attack and defence at sea by G. H. DavisMethods of air attack and defence at sea explained: showing how the Navy has countered the bomber. The main forms of air attack on warships: height-bombing and dive-bombing
The Leap to Tin Salmon Blower by Heath RobinsonAnother convoluted contraption from the gadget king William Heath Robinson, showing how salmon are tinned in Scotland, part of a series in the Illustrated Sporting
British night fighters by G. H. DavisMethods of Britains night fighters during the Second World War: the element of surprise. Clear, dark nights are ideal for hunting enemy raiders
Menace of the U-boat by G. H. DavisThe deadly menace of the U-boat: the power and possibilities of Germanys underwater wolves. Some details of the operational methods of enemy submarines working in the Atlantic shipping lanes during
Modern methods of sea rescue by G. H. DavisModern methods of sea rescue during the Second World War: day and night detection devices. Date: 1941
Luftwaffe raids on Britain by G. H. DavisHow the Luftwaffe plans raids on Britain. German bombs, methods of release, and technique of attack. Details of the latest types of bombs used by the Germans during the Second World War. Date: 1940
Magnetic mine by G. H. DavisThe German magnetic mine: the first diagrams of its working and the methods by which it is laid. Diagrams showing the delicate electrical mechanism which reacts to the weak magnetic field set up by a
Hypnosis - St PetersburgHypnosis given as treatment in St Petersburg, Russia in 1905. Date: 1905
Transport methods used by soldiers, WW1Methods used by soldiers for transporting their equipment during the First World War. Showing a French cyclist scout aiming his rifle with his cycle on his back
