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Young boy with his dog cart - Bruges, Belgium
A young boy with his milk dog cart - Bruges, Belgium Date: circa 1910s

Israel - Local millers of Corn
Local millers of Corn working with hand-powered rotary querns in Jerusalem, Israel - at this period under Ottoman control Date: circa 1903

The Orkney Express
A slightly mocking postcard entitled: The Orkney Express, depicting an ox-drawn cart carrying peat and a local farmer Date: 1910s

Flemish Milk cart - Belgium
Flemish Milk cart pulled by a labrador - Belgium. The milkmaid is pouring out a windmill owners daily jug of the white stuff. Date: circa 1910s

Port Said, Egypt - Street Scene with mule-pulled tram and a watchmakers shop. Date: 1909

Testing a Maxim machine gun
Men in top hats (and one in a bowler hat) testing a Maxim machine gun. The Maxim gun was the first self-powered machine gun, invented by Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884

One seated Bullock Ekka (Taxi)
A one-seated Bullock ekka in India - a ype of carriage used in India, usually pulled by horses. Ekkas (the word is Hindi in origin) were commonly used as cabs, or private hire vehicles

19th Century Dive Bell
A diving bell in use, collecting materials from the sea-bed : note the lights, powered from the boat anchored overhead. Date: late 19th century

Evanss Harmonium
Evanss new English harmonium, for home and church use : like all such instruments, it is powered by foot-operated bellows. Date: 1859

Sedan Chair / King Graphic
Toil and Pleasure a lady is carried through the snow by servants in a sedan chair Date: circa 1800

Two women in cycle-drawn carriage
Two women enjoy a ride in an open cycle-drawn carriage. Date: 1899

Steam powered vehicle, South Wales
A steam powered vehicle made by the Patent Steam Car and Wagon Company of Leeds, being driven along a road somewhere in South Wales

Steam powered winding engine, South Wales
A steam powered winding engine, possibly at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales. The mine closed in 1932, but continued as a pumping station into the 1960s

Summerleaze Sands, Bude. A workman collects sand in a small wagon on a rudimentary railway running across the beach, pulled by a horse

Calcutta, India - Indian Palanquin
Calcutta (Kolkata), India - Indian Palanquin

Picardie, France - children in traditional costume. A dog takes breather from pulling a small milk cart, filled with metal pales

Horse-drawn road sweeping machine
A marvellous photograph of a horse-drawn road sweeper, made by J. T Whittomb of Tavistock

St Marys - The Atlantic Hotel - Donkey Cart
St Marys Island, Isles of Scilly - The Atlantic Hotel - Donkey Cart used to transport your baggage from the harbour up to the hotel

Ice-cutting Machine
A late 19th century Steam-powered Ice-cutting Machine operating on the frozen exoanse of the St Lawrence River, Canada. Possibly one of historys more risky undertakings for an apparatus of this

An Ancient British War Chariot
An Ancient British Tribal War Chariot

Italy - Ox Wagon
An Ox wagon heading along a steeply-descending lane through an Italian village, transporting a large load of wood

Chinese carriage
A superb photograph postcard depicting a Chinese carriage, pulled by a white mule, carrying a couple of finely dressed Chinese ladies

Horse-drawn omnibus, London, 1945
Horse-drawn omnibus. Taken outside the Westminster Bank in the City. This is the Camberwell and Clapham service operated by The Star Omnibus Company

English Gent in Egypt in rickshaw
English gentleman in his rickshaw - Egypt. He has descended the steps leading down from his front door to meet his servant and transportation for the day

Preliminary preparation for a road surface
A mechanical steam-powered digger by the M.M Barrat brothers is used to break the ground in preparation for a road to be constructed

Alberta, Canada - The Edmonton to Strathcona Ferry
Alberta, Canada - The Edmonton to Strathcona Cable Ferry - bearing a horse and cart and a large amount of cut timber

Transporting wood - India
Wooden ox-pulled carts filled with wood pause at the roadside in the Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Cutting the Corn
A young boy stands in a field watching a horse-drawn harvesting machine cutting the corn

Traditional Egyptian water wheel
A traditional ox-powered Egyptain water wheel, used to draw up water from the Nile for irrigation

Kazimain Tramway - Iraq
A fabulous photographic postcard depicting an Iraqi horse tram. The tram is FAR earlier than the date of the card!

Aden - Yemen - Native Camel Cart

Mexican farmer with his ox-pulled plough

Mexico - Transport of Yucatecan sisal pads
A farmer carrying Yucatecan sisal pads on two small platforms that move on a rail pulled by two mules toward the scraper machine

Coal gas Motorcycle
Motorcycle and side car with children passengers, driven by coal gas during World War I

Constantinople - Team of firemen with their hand-powered pump

Great Well - Carisbrooke Castle
The Great Well at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, powered by a donkey in a wheel!

Horse-powered Four Wheel Vehicle, 1921
Illustration showing an invention, patented in 1921, that used a horse to push a four wheel vehicle

Rickshaw in Japan
Two well-dressed Japanese ladies take a ride in a rickshaw powered by two rickshaw drivers

American oli powered diesel electric locomotive
The Streamline Union Pacific Train for high speed passenger service. This oil powered diesel electric locomotive is fitted with a 900 H.P twelve cylinder diesel engine

The patent Impoulsoria, horse powered engine
An ingenious means of applying animal power to the working of railways, to supersede the costly locomotive engine. The engine, called Impulsoria

The Marquis of Salisbury opening the Liverpool Docks Overhea
Engraving showing the Marquis of Salisbury (1830-1903) turning on the current at the generating station, Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool, 4th February 1893

A French soldiers douche
An improvised shower for French soldiers in the style of Heath Robinson, powered by a water-wheel in a small stream near the firing-line

Venus Airship
The innovative people of Venus develop this birdlike man- powered airship which moves by flapping its wings. Date: 1942

Radium Airship
Other worlds will surely develop their own technologies for space travel : this radium-powered airship of Saturn uses the planets natural resources

Ship of Europa
Though driven by oars, this vessel on Europa, one of Jupiters moons, is powered not manually but by the energy taken from the ether which forms the moons atmosphere

Airliner of 1988
Predicted for 1988, powered by gasoline or hydrogen, this air liner will travel in the stratosphere; its amenities include a television theatre and a cocktail lounge

Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition
A series of pictures from The Graphic depicting various exhibits at the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition in 1882. The main picture at the top shows a domestic drawing-room lit by electricity

Pilgrim in Sedan Chair
Pilgrims en route to the Baths of Panticosa in Spain; a woman with a fan is carried in a sedan chair, while other men and women ride on donkeys

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