Projects Collection (page 4)

Leonardo Flying Machine
LEONARDO DA VINCI Sketch of a design for a flying machine

Ideal City of 1552
Plan for an Ideal City, prefiguring the city of the Sun proposed by Campanella

London / Projects / Wren
A Plan of the City of London for rebuilding after the fire of 1666 according to Sir Christopher Wren

Baird Demonstration
An early demonstration of Bairds television system

Ives Colour TV Project
H E Ives, of New York, invents a television system using natural colour

Watching Bairds Device
Watching a demonstration of BAIRDs apparatus

Dussauds Teleoscope - 2
Dussauds TELEOSCOPE 2 - receiving

Dussauds Teleoscope - 1
Dussauds TELEOSCOPE 1 - transmitting

Steam Powered Motorbike
An American steam-powered motor-cycle

BAIRDs TELEVISION 1927
John Logie Baird demonstrates his television, transmitted from London to Glasgow, using telephone lines

Franklin as a Boy
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN As a boy, he works in a candle-makers factory but already his mind is busy with future projects

Pyramid Flats, Paris
A model of a series of blocks of flats in the shape of the Egyptian pyramids, Paris, France

Aerial Steam Carriage
THE AERIAL STEAM CARRIAGE Flying above an excited crowd who have flocked to one of Londons bridges to see the spectacle

Future Air Liner
Tomorrows air liner, though it still has propellors, is very advanced in design, with wingtip fins rather than tailfin and rudder, Baggage is stowed beneath passengers

Bus of the Future
A bus of the future races along an autobahn carrying two decks of passengers : a modern train crosses overhead

Bewick / Skunk
(Mephitis mephitis) This mustelid inhabits north and south America, and is famed for the awful-smelling liquid it projects at predators from ducts at its rear end

Patinhas Project
The aerostatic fish of Jose Patinha who flew it from Plazentia in Spain to Coria, on the Aragon river, a distance of 12 leagues

Air Liner Project 1932
Thinking big, and way beyond the giant flying-boats of the 1930s is this massive flying liner which carries vehicles in its wings, freight and passengers in its twin hulls

Marriott Project 1869
Marriotts aerial steam carriage, Avitor, was successfully tested in model form, but alas, no full-size version was constructed, this is an imaginary scene

Maykemper Road-Air Idea
German designer Maykemper proposes this handy plane which can be driven on roads, or this automobile which can take to the air

London, Future
Mansion House Corner, in the City of the London, as it will be a hundred years from now, with roof-top aeroplane stations, the sky loud with the sound of flying machines

City of the Future
The city of the future... an enormous complex structure, combining beauty with utility... gardens will occupy the roof of the city, also the aeroplane stations

Fourier Community
A phalanstery, or ideal community, on the pattern proposed by the French idealist, Charles Fourier, but never effectively put into practice Date: 1847

Gravity-Free Conditions
Space travellers will have to learn to live in a gravity- free environment

Space Suit Foreseen
Space suit as foreseen in 1939

Interplanetary Rocket
In some such vehicle as this, Man will embark on the conquest of space

Langleys Failure
Samuel Pierpont Langleys full-size flying machine fails over the Potomac, Washington, though trials with models had been successful

Valier rocket taking off from the moon
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes using a lunar base for rockets travelling to distant planets. (3 of 3)

Valier rocket lunar base
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes a lunar base using solar power, from which travel to more distant destinations will be easier than from Earth. (2 of 3)

Valier rocket launch from water
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes rocket launch from water for space travel. (1 of 3)

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