Monitoring Collection

Birth of a baby, Rochford General Hospital, Essex
Birth of a baby at Rochford General Hospital, Essex. When Janet Gisby was admitted, the chances were high that, after two miscarriages, she would lose her baby

The Motor Picture Book, Traffic Control from the Air Date: 1930

How to Make Roof-Spotting a Pleasure
William Heath Robinson invention for keeping watch from attack. A warden perched up high above the streets with an umbrella for protection, tea-cup-holder and an easy chair. Date: 1941

Monitoring radio stations for news to rush to editors Date: 1941

Man at work in an oil rig control room
Man at work in the control room of an oil rig drilling platform off the coast of Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Watchroom at Fire Brigade HQ, Southwark
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

Oscilloscope for EEG monitoring in ESP testing
A Hewlett Packard four-beam oscilloscope for EEG (electroencephalogram) monitoring during ESP testing. Date: 20th century

GLC-LFB Fire Investigation Unit
Fire investigation teams were introduced to enhance the fire investigation capability of the Brigade. These units were watch related and placed strategically across London

Edward J Ruppelt
Ruppelt took over the U.S.Air Force monitoring of flying saucer reports, under the code-name Blue Book. He died in 1960

Futuristic machine for reading human thought waves
A futuristic machine which registers and translates human thought waves, even if the subject is unconscious or unable to speak. Date: 1928

Il Colosso di Rodi. Allegory of the British Empire as the Colossus of Rhodes monitoring and controlling the passage of the Bosphorus

Taking a snow depth measurement - boreal forest after a heavy snowfall. Wildlife reserve Denezhkin Kamen - North Ural Mountains - Russia

RESEARCHER of CNR (Italian National Council of Research) monitoring a Dolphin using its sonar

Researchers - monitoring sonar sounds of a dolphin echolocating a metal ball

Keeping track of German raiders by G. H. Davis
Keeping track of German raiders during the Second World War: the method pictorially explained, from the moment their approach is noted until the sounding of the alert in the threatened areas

Polygraph for brain and body monitoring in ESP testing
A multi-pen polygraph for the monitoring of brain and body functions during ESP testing. Date: 20th century

LCC-LFB fire, Talwin Street, Bow, East London
London Fire Brigade crews at the scene of a serious blaze, now under control, in an East London commercial premises at Talwin Street, Bow

LCC-MFB Firemen in switchboard & control room
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

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