Polytechnic Collection

Balloon and parachute lecture, Charles Green

Quintin Hogg, English merchant and philanthropist
Quintin Hogg (1845-1903), English merchant and philanthropist. Statue erected by the Royal Polytechnic Institution to the memory of their founder, Regent Street, London

Poland / Warsaw Institute
Warsaw: the Polytechnic Institute

Poster, Polytechnic Swiss Tours, A week in lovely Lucerne. Date: circa 1913

Woodwork classroom for boys who continued their education at Acland County Council School, Kentish Town, London. Date: 1906

Woman examining her hat in a mirror
Woman photographed as she examines her hat in the mirror in the Northern Polytechnic. The Northern Polytechnic offered classes to enable women to learn how to convert old clothing

Four views of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Four views of the Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA -- Alden Memorial Auditorium, Sanford Riley Hall, Higgins Mechanical Engineering Laboratories

Pasadena New Polytechnic High School, California, America

British Caribbean photographic technician at Trent Polytechnic Nottingham 1980s. Standing by a printing machine, wearing white overall Date: 1980s

Women munition-makers 1916
Women needed by the hundred thousands to work in munitions factories, while the men were at War fighting. Showing women been trained at Battersea Polytechnic, London. Date: 1916

Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, London
View of the Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, London, later known as the Regent Street Polytechnic, and now part of the University of Westminster. Dated in handwriting 16 November 1904

Polytechnic School, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
California Polytechnic School, San Luis Obispo, California, USA. Date: circa 1910

Schoolboys help in shell making
Boys of the Acton and Chiswick Polytechnic School spending a holiday making shell caps at an engineering works at Willesden during the First World War. Date: 1915

School for Chauffeurs, 1904
The only class of instruction for chauffeurs at Battersea Polytechnic, a class suggested by Colonel Mark Mayhew and patronised by Sir George Newnes, who presented a 20 h.p. Darracq car

The Limmatquay, with Polytechnic, Zurich, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Castle and polytechnic, Hanover, Hanover, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The Polytechnic Chalet, Seeburg, (i. e. Seeberg), Lucerne, Sw
The Polytechnic Chalet, Seeburg, (i.e. Seeberg), Lucerne, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The Polytechnic, Riga, Russia, (i. e. Latvia)
The Polytechnic, Riga, Russia, (i.e. Latvia). Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena. Date between 1898 and 1905

Chelsea Polytechnic, Manresa Road, London
The Chelsea College of Art and Design was originally an integral school of the South-Western Polytechnic, which opened at Manresa Road, Chelsea

Filming of the Golden Eagle, Polytechnic Theatre, London
Postcard advertisement for Captain Knights The Filming of the Golden Eagle, at the Polytechnic Theatre, Regent Street, London W1, with screenings three times daily

Group of people on Mount Pilatus, Switzerland
A group of people described as a Polytechnic Party, enjoying a day out on Mount Pilatus, Switzerland. Date: August 1908

Old Polytechnic Building, Regent Street, London
View of the Old Polytechnic Building in Regent Street, leading up to Langham Place, London. The spire of All Souls Church, Langham Place, can be seen in the distance on the right. Date: circa 1910s

Gymnasium Drill for Little Girls, London, 1888
Illustration showing three lines of girls undertaking a gym drill at the Polytechnic Christian Institute, London, 1888

Bar-bell exercise at a Gymnasium, London, 1888
Illustration showing a woman undertaking a bar-bell exercise at the gymnasium of the Polytechnic Christian Institute, London, 1888

Great Electric Induction Coil
Demonstration of the Great Electric Induction Coil at the Polytechnic Institution in London in 1869 by Professor Pepper. Viewed by a large number of visitors to the Polytechnic

Foucault Demo London
Foucaults demonstration of the rotation of the Earth, by a pendulum, is explained to a London audience at the Polytechnic Institution, Regent St. by Dr Bachhoffner

Construction of a voltaic battery in Paris
Construction of a large voltaic battery at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, covering 54 square metres, on the orders of Napoleon

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