Motion Collection

The Horse in motion. Sallie Gardner, owned by Leland Stanford; running at a 1:40 gait over the Palo Alto track, 19th June 1878. Photograph with twelve frames showing motion of a race horse

Monaco Grand Prix Poster - 1931
Poster for the 3rd Monaco Grand Prix - held on the 19th April 1931. The race was won by Louis Chiron in a Bugatti. 1931

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - still from the Radio Picture Ltd production Shall We Dance?

Caterpillar track steam engine by R. Hornsby & Sons
The first and original Caterpillar or walking engine made by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham. R. Hornsby & Sons grew into a major manufacturer of agricultural machinery, at their Spittle Gate Works

Orffyreus Wheel & Man
The perpetual motion wheel of Orffyreus, real name Johann Ernst Elias Bessler, is set in motion by a man

Tandem bicycle. 19th century engraving

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament photographed in motion. 1959

Coal-mine in the Midlands in the 1790s featuring a Newcomen engine adapted for rotary motion motion and used a whimsey for winding up coal. Date: 1790s

Athletics. Race. Early twentieth century. Engraving

Completion of the new Earls Court station, London
Completion of the new Earls Court underground station, London. Top: an illuminated train indicator which shows trains in motion. Middle: the new flyover junction

Alarm Buoy, 1858
Engraving showing an alarm, or marker, buoy designed by Brown, Lenox and Company of Millwall, 1858. This buoy featured a water-wheel in its centre which, through the motion of the water

Perpetual Motion Machine
The supposed perpetual motion machine of Solomon Reisel

Three runaway schoolboys are very seasick
Three runaway schoolboys suffer greatly from seasickness on an ocean voyage. Date: 1898

Edisons Vitascope
This was one of Edisons several ingenious but ultimately impracticable attempts to invent the motion picture

Antoine Lumiere
Charles Antoine Lumiere (1840-1911). One of the greatest scientific innovators who explored the possibilities of light in motion photography

QSS Lusitania - souvenir of launch, commemorative 18 carat gold handled scissors, with stainless steel blades, the crossover engraved with John Brown and Co

Medieval war machine. Catapult. Parabolic motion machine, used to launch long-distance projectiles. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

Isaac Newton (1642-1726/1727). English mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Chromolithography, 1876. Date: 2014

Duckweed
Watercolour paintings of three American Pekin ducks swimming in a circular motion on duckweed covered water. Date: circa 1930

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 - 1904), English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion

Sequence of crawling child. Date: 1887

Sequence of a small child climbing steps. Date: 1887

Women in short or long dresses emptying bowls, lifting a basket. Date: 1887

Woman in a long dress surmounting an obstacle. Date: 1880s

Woman in a long dress turning, etc. second of two Date: 1887

Woman in a long dress turning, etc. first of two Date: 1887

Muybridge - Carrying
Woman in a short dress carrying a basket of flowers or a vase. Date: 1887

Woman in a long dress carrying a cup and saucer Date: 1887

Muybridge - Walking
Woman in a long dress walking, stooping etc. Date: 1887

Woman in a long dress with a fan, or making other movements. Date: 1887

Sequences of a man carrying - first a 20 kg dumb-bell, second a full bucket. Date: 1887

Various shots of blacksmiths and athletes. Date: 1887

Two sequences of an athlete running. Date: 1887

Muybridge - Jumping
One or two men running or jumping Date: 1887

Sequences of man walking carrying a 30 kg stone on his shoulder. Date: 1880s

Muybridge - Blacksmiths
Four scenes of blacksmiths at work Date: 1880s

A man walking - some carrying a load on his head, some not. Date: 1880s

Muybridge - Shovel
Three sequences of a man using a shovel. Date: 1887

Batting at baseball Date: 1887

EDISON'S KINETOSCOPE Reproducing to the eye the effect of human motion by means of a swift and graded succession of pictures'. Date: 1894

A woman taking a shower and having tea. Date: 1887

A woman carrying a vase. Date: 1887

CHILD CLIMBING STEPS ON HANDS AND KNEES (sequence of four) Date: 1887

CHILD PICKING UP A DOLL (sequence of four) Date: 1887

CHILD CRAWLING (sequence of six). Date: 1887

Motor racing along a country lane - ParisMadrid race 1903
The notorious ParisMadrid race of May 1903 was an early experiment in auto racing, organized by the Automobile Club de France and the Spanish Automobile Club, Automovil Club Espanol

Poster, Selig Films, now showing
Poster, Selig Films, Now Showing, Roman Centurion. An American motion picture company founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago. circa 1912

Image of movable stage for capturing scenes with a Mutograph
Herman Casler (1867 - 1939) developed the Mutoscope/Mutograph circa 1890s, as a potential answer to the development of motion picture

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