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Steam and Red Flag 1865
A steam-powered vehicle is preceded by a man with a red flag, to warn everyone of the on-coming monster

Steam Carriages Galore
The widespread activity, seeking to harness steam power to road transport, is satirised in this view of the Whitechapel Road where horse drawn vehicles are no more

Steam Tricycle Project
A far-seeing English project for a steam-powered tricycle amazes the man in the street

Two Palanquins Meet
A European gentleman in a palanquin meets a European lady in a palanquin and they exchange greetings while their bearers - four to each palanquin - stagger on

Sedan Chair 1804
A sedan chairman waits outside a theatre with his vehicle while his client enjoys the spectacle within

Indian Hand Carriage
A team of hauliers pull a wagon through the Indian night (when its cooler)

Gent in Bath Chair
A very small boy pulls a very large relative along the esplanade of a seaside resort

Rickshaw Sri Lanka
A European gentleman in a solar topee is about to be taken in a rickshaw in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Rickshaw Japan
A Japanese lady travels by rickshaw in a country setting

Rickshaw Indo-China
A lady travels in a pousse- pousse (= push-push) from Indo-China (Vietnam)

Entering Jap Rickshaw
A Japanese lady prepares to enter a rickshaw

Staffordshire Mine
A steam engine drawing coal in the Staffordshire collieries

MOOREs STEAM MAN 1893
Two illustrations of Canadian inventor George Moores Steam Man, a fully mobile robot automaton powered by an internal steam engine

Evans Oruktor Amphibolis
An early steam-powered amphibian craft, Evans Oruktor Amphibolis

Industry / Power / Solar
Mouchots solar-powered device draws energy from the suns heat and utilises it to power machines

Kimball Biplane
American designer Kimballs biplane is notable for using eight propellers, though they are powered by a single motor. The plane flies, kind of, but there are problems

Electric Dog-Cart 1888
Electric dog-cart : battery- powered. For a while, car designers will look to electricity for their motive power, but sadly, combustion will triumph

Rick-Making Machine
Rick-making machine by Clayton & Shuttleworth of Lincoln, powered by an elegant steam engine

Papa Pulls the Pram
Papa proudly pulls a pram, hand-cart style, filled with his progeny

Steam Thresher 1930S
Overview of a 19th century steam powered threshing machine, still very much in use on farms in the early 20th century. Date: 1930s

Indonesian Palanquin
Four bearers carry a gentleman in a palanquin, in the East Indies (Indonesia)

17th Century Smithy
A blacksmith at work in his smithy, powered by a water wheel; logging and other activities are also taking place

Steam Powered Motorbike
An American steam-powered motor-cycle

Man-Powered Tram, Japan
Whereas most trams are powered, these at Yokohama, Japan, are man-powered, two men to pull and two to push

Ricksha Boy Label
Ricksha Boy - in traditional plumed headdress - on a product label

Ferry at Norwich
Ferry on the Wensum river, at the Watergate, Norwich

Brumate Funicular
The Brumate funicular, carrying visitors to Como into the mountains, was originally powered by steam, but soon converted to electricity. It is operated by cable

Swedish Frigate
The frigate - steam- powered but sail-assisted - sails past one of the defensive forts on the Swedish coast, passing a paddle steamer and some fishing vessels

Vietnam Woodworker
Vietnam (Tonkin), - A woodworker at his foot-powered lathe

Sedan Chair
An early sedan chair, perhaps in the Netherlands

Japanese Push-Rickshaw
A variation on the standard rickshaw, which is pulled, this one is pushed from behind, which is probably much harder

Japanese Rickshaw
A lady of Nagasaki is drawn along Temple street, while a servant walks beside her carrying her shoes

Man-Powered Carriage
Ingenious British project for a man-powered carriage, somewhat similar to that proposed by Richard

Powered Pram
Prams are usually man- (or women-) powered, but really theres no reason why they shouldn t be powered like automobiles

Builders Barrow
Builders use a brouette (wheelbarrow) as they work on a French gatehouse

Chateau Wheelbarrow
A brouette (wheelbarrow) is employed in this French chateau to move stuff from here to there or vice versa

Hospital Wheelbarrow
A hospital patient is wheeled in a brouette

C13 Wheelbarrow
A lady is wheeled in a brouette

Girls in Pram
Two little girls share a pram

Cartwrights Loom
CARTWRIGHTs POWER LOOM Edmund Cartwrights steam- powered loom of 1785 enabled weaving to be carried out at vastly greater speed

Ferries at Liverpool
Two ferry steamers leave Liverpool quayside to carry passengers across the Mersey

Hornsbys Thresher
Hornsbys Steam powered thresher

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