Prediction Collection (page 2)

The ruin of Babylon - Revelation 18. circa 1688

The Last Judgement - Matthew 25. circa 1688

The Heaven Opened - Revelation 4. circa 1688

Tourist attractions around The Szczeliniec Wielki Mountain
A future prediction of the Tourist attractions based on and around The Szczeliniec Wielki (Heuscheuer) - the highest mountain in the Table Mountains in Poland (German card). Date: circa 1910s

Predictions on Jerusalem - 2 Maccabees 5. circa 1690

Cartoon, Prediction of role reversal after the war, WW1
Cartoon, Prediction of role reversal after the war. One young woman says to the other: Can you believe it, my husband wanted to drive the car this morning! But thats not going to happen

Future Prediction - Flying Machines in the Year 2000
Future Prediction - How flying Machines would transform everyday life in the Year 2000 (as one flies over the Rhine...) - for him, for her and for the whole family! Date: 1900

Myanmar - Burmese Fortunetellers. Date: circa 1909

At fortune tellers house. Engraving. Colored
At fortune tellers house. Engraving by Walla. L Illustration, 1885. Colored

The Fortune Teller with two young women. circa 1820

Fortune tellers tent -- enter if you dare! Date: 1970s

Flight / Fantasy / Air Polic
A prediction of a policeman giving chase to a thief using air machines. Date: 1885

Cartoon, When will peace come? WW1
Cartoon, When will peace come? A woman asks a fortune teller. The answer: Why, when the fighting stops! Date: 1916

End of the world
The end of the world is predicted by prophets and sibyls Date: medieval

The Clairvoyante who Foretold her own Marriage by H M Batema
A sequential cartoon by H.M. Bateman showing a woman studying cards to tell her own future. Believing they re predicting she ll meet the man she ll marry imminently

Cartoon, Parrots of Paris, WW1
Cartoon, Parrots of Paris, showing women going about their normal business, with little understanding of the seriousness of war. Date: 1915

The prediction of Elisha. Date: circa late 19th century

Bystander magazine competition, When Will the War End?
Picture 2 of 2 (see 10731631 for 1st). Map of Europe to accompany the Bystander magazines war forecast competition, run in August 1915, with a closing date of 30 September that year

An aerial Kings Cross: a vision of Londons air terminus, 1
A suggested central London air terminus at Kings Cross, combined with a railway, road goods terminus and a large station for motor coaches and omnibuses

Flights into the Future - space age exploration
A futuristic prediction of what it will be like when man finally lands on the moon - astronauts will find themselves in a strange world. Date: 1943

Sperry automatic computing gun sight by G. H. Davis
A mechanical brain: the Sperry automatic computing gun sight, in use during the Second World War. An invention which enabled US bombers to target a large number of enemy fighters. Date: 1944

Japan - Kobe - Meterological Observatory
Japan - Kobe - The Meterological Observatory Date: circa 1920s

The Crystal Gazers
Two girls sit in front of a fire and gaze into a crystal ball, wondering what the future holds. Date: 1911

Fashions of the future as predicted in 1930
An idea of what the girls of the future will look like according to C. B. Cochrans 1930 Revue shown in Manchester and the West End

Cuckoo on the cherry tree, come down and tell me how many years have I got to live. 20th century

A page from the Illustrated London News, 1951, showing a reconstruction of Dr. Merryweather of Whitbys Tempest Prognosticator, and an illustration detailing how the device works

When Will the War End?
Military experts, blindfolded and clueless, decide when the war will end and why in 1915. Nobody looks as if they have a clue

LOOK AHEAD
Tom sees a group of fortune- tellers and prophesiers coming towards him but refuses to be tempted to look at the future

Videophone Prediction
A videophone was used by the Bell Telephone System in a trial between Pittsburgh and New York offices of Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Elevated Railway / London
A Perspective View of the London Railway - a future prediction for an elevated railway running close to current buildings in the capital

Hensons Steam Carriage
William Samuel Henson along with John Stringfellow designed the Aerial Steam Carriage. Prints like this foretold a success that was sadly not forthcoming

Indian Astronomer
An Indian Astronomer studies his charts

Perseus & Danae
The baby Perseus and his mother Danae are abandoned at sea by her father, Acrisus because of a prediction that Acrisus would be murdered by his own grandchild

Party of people picnicking at Henley Regatta
A party of people picnicking at the Henley Royal Regatta, an annual rowing event held on the River Thames near the town of Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire

The Angels of the Euphrates
Scene from The Apocalypse, depicting The Angels of the Euphrates

Aerial Warfare Foreseen
At the outbreak of war, the role of the aeroplane was uncertain : this prediction of bombing ships was premature, given the rudimentary technology then available

Chinese Wen-Wang
A Chinese fortune-teller employs the WEN-WANG method of prediction, in which small coins are used

Shaman of Lapland in a divinatory trance
A Shaman of Lapland lying on the ground with a magical drum on his back, in a divinatory trance, about to foretell the future

Nostradamus, French apothecary and prophet
Michel de Nostredame, French apothecary and prophet

Futuristic cine-phono-telegraph
A futuristic cine-phono-telegraph, which allows people to speak over the telephone and see each other on a screen at the same time

Futuristic firemen putting out a fire
Futuristic airborne firemen putting out a fire

Great fire of London prediction
William Lilly predicts the Great Fire of London 1666

Apocalypse, The Great Beast
Scene from the Apocalypse -- The Great Beast

St Patricks vision of ship
SAINT PATRICK The Saints vision of the ship which would take him home

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