Projects Collection

Leonardo Helicopter
LEONARDO DA VINCI Sketch of a flying machine which seems in some respects to anticipate the helicopter, though the technology is not clear

Corbetts Vision
In American planner Harvey Corbetts vision of a future city, fast traffic will be segregated from slow, and people from both Date: 1925

Singapore, bastion in the East, by G. H. Davis
Britains great bastion in the East: Singapore, stubborn obstacle to Japans ambitious projects in Southern Asia during the Second World War

Clarence ?Kelly? Leonard Johnson, CEng, FRAeS, 1910-1990?
Clarence ?Kelly? Leonard Johnson, CEng, FRAeS, 1910-1990, Vice President, Advanced Development Projects, Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin

Future New York will be pre- eminently the city of skyscrapers - and of noise, what with the elevated railway passing your window and the aircraft flying low overhead

Map / Europe / France / Paris
Map showing the growth of Paris from its earliest origins to the latest projects under Napoleon III

Leonardo Sketches
LEONARDO DA VINCI A page of sketches of flying machines

Airship of Uranus
Airships of planet Uranus are powered by taking in air at the nose, compressing it and blasting it out at the rear. Maybe we on Earth could develop some such technology ?

Leonardo Machine
LEONARDO DA VINCI Sketch of a flying machine, driven by a standing man using his arms to flap the wings

Futuristic transport -- the torpedo car
This is how Mr Fletcher Felts suggests we tackle the inner- city traffic problem - monorails whizzing over the jammed cars, whirring smoothly past our windows

Future City Satire
A satirical view of the city of the future

Godwins Project
FRANCIS GODWIN An ingenious method of flying by harnessing trained birds, who would tow the intrepid aviator even so far as the Moon

Motorbike with Skates
Swiss-American inventor Thomas Avoskans motor cycle with skates

Ballybunnion Monorail
Monorail of the Listowel and Ballybunnion Railway, Ireland

An artist?s impression of a Lockheed Martin multi-servi?
An artist?s impression of a Lockheed Martin multi-service strike fighter developed in a contract with the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) for a X-32 demonstration programme, August 1994

A range of DIY ideas for the home, including a vacuum cleaner storage rack, an office area in the kitchen, and a "husband's corner" in a converted larder. Date: 1954

Some ideas and instructions for home knitting projects - a reversible cardigan and a jumper. Date: 1943

Some ideas and instructions for home knitting projects - a twin set, and woollen stockings. Date: 1943

D Napier and Son - Special projects
Helicopter gas generator integral with rotor

Harnessing the atom by G. H. Davis
The force which can move mountains: harnessing the atom to vast projects for the benefit of mankind. Showing how the use of atomic explosives could be used on ambitious engineering works

RAY GUN PROJECT - 1
English inventor Grindell Matthews sets up his death- ray device in his workshop Date: 1924

Ray Gun Project Military Weapons Projects 1924
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RAY GUN PROJECT - 2
English inventor Grindell Matthews demonstrates his death- ray device on a small target Date: 1924

D Napier and Son - Special projects
Breguet scheme for augmented lift

Cartoon, If it comes to that, who are you! (And collaborators, too, once!) Edward Solomon (left) and Henry Pottinger Stephens (right) collaborated on many theatrical projects

Douglas DC-6A N6540C (msn 45368, line number 932), of the United States Department of Commerce, attached to the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), Research Flight Facility (RFF)

TELEVISION SOUND 1930
Making a sound recording for television. Date: 1930

STREET OF THE FUTURE
Traffic in the city street of the future will be monitored and controlled - and if necessary warned and admonished - from control cabins above street level. Date: 1934

HARMONY HALL, 1842
Robert Owens utopian community at Harmony Hall, Hampshire Date: 1842

MORES UTOPIA
The imaginary island of UTOPIA, as described by Sir Thomas More Date: 1518

WATCHING TELECINEMA 1936
Watching a demonstration of the TELECINEMA at the Grammont Studios Date: 1936

WESTERN ELECTRIC TV
Western Electric experiments with television at their research laboratories, Schenectady Date: 1930

LONDON IN 1955
An artist in 1905 shows what the London of 1955 will be like - that is, provided there arent any wars to get in the way of peaceful progress... Date: 1905

GODDARDS MOON PROJECT
Dr Goddards MOON ROCKET project Date: 1922

Futuristic transport -- the torpedo car
A futuristic transport solution for the inner city -- the torpedo car. This Fletcher Felts suggestion runs on a monorail. Date: 1923

Self sufficient village plan 1850
A self-supporting village designed by Mr J Minter Morgan, housing 300 families of the working class. Date: 1850

Taharqa, Pharaoh
TAHARQA, PHARAOH (25th dynasty) initiated extensive building projects in both Egypt and Nubia

Leonardo Wings
LEONARDO DA VINCI Sketches of wings for flying machines

Futuristic space ship of the year 2038
A futuristic space ship of the year 2038, as projected a hundred years earlier

Spurgeons Home, Stockwell
Boys at Spurgeons Home, Stockwell, show off their woodworking projects. Date: June 1926

Sir Charles Fox - 2
SIR CHARLES FOX Engineer, whose projects included the construction of Paxtons Crystal Palace : he lived at Blackheath where our Library is located. Date: 1810 - 1874

Jules F Dupuis-Delcourt
JULES FRANCOIS DUPUIS-DELCOURT French balloon pioneer, with many ambitious projects which only occasionally bore fruit. Date: ACTIVE 1820S-1850S

Dornier Do. X
Seen here on a test flight, the 150-passenger DO.X is the largest aircraft in the world, but as with most grandiose projects, it proves a colossal failure - only 3 are built. Date: July 1929

Cattaneos Rocket Plane
Italian pilot Cattaneo tests his rocket-powered monoplane. Date: 1932

MAXIMs 1894 PROJECT
Hiram Maxims monoplane project, is tested on a track at Baldwyns Park, Kent : its failure to rise more than a few centimetres discourages further experiments Date: 31 July 1894

Danish Sailing Plane
Combining wings and sails, this aircraft - designed by Danish engineer Rohrbach - flies/sails from Denmark to England, where the War ministry takes it seriously Date: 1926

HOFMANNs 1901 PROJECT
J HOFMANNs PROJECT as it will appear, if its inventor ever gets it into the air... Date: 1901

KRESSs 1900 PROJECT
KRESSs PROJECT The flying machine of Wilhelm Kress, prior to testing on an Austrian lake Date: 1900

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