System Collection (page 2)

Penny Post Jubilee card - Sir Rowland Hill - 1890
A Penny Post Jubilee card, issued in 1890 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee (50 years, 1840 - 1890) of the Penny Post. The card features a postman from 1840 and one from 1890

Boeing 314 Clipper
Pan American Airways System Paa, Boeing 314 Clipper Fleet Number 18 Flying Date: 1939

Balmoral Industrial School, Belfast
A view of the Balmoral Industrial School for Protestant Boys, Belfast Date: 1899

Gloster Meteor F4 RA490
Gloster Meteor F4, RA490, following use as a Beryl engine testbed, the aircraft was heavily modified to take two Rolls-Royce Nene turbojets for trials with a jet deflection system

Geocentric System
The pre-Copernican system of the Planets - Earth at the centre orbited by the other planets including the sun, and surrounded by the stars

Anatomy of the nervous system in the heart, neck and arm. Lithograph by C. Schach from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart, 1839

Blue lotus of the Nile, Nymphaea caerulea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Poster, Pan American World Airways to the Caribbean -- the System of the Flying Clippers, designed by Mark von Arenburg. circa 1950s

Are you nervous? If so, find the nerve! Photograph of Dr. Rufus Weaver showing the nervous system of a man. Date: 1906

Wheel worked by dog - turning roasting spit, Carmarthenshire
Wheel worked by a dog for turning the roasting spit - used until the end of the first quarter of the 19th century. This example was the property of the late Sir John Williams, Bart

BAE Sea Harrier FRS-1
Royal-Navy Rn Bae Sea Harriers Parked on the Flight-Deck with Hms Broadsword Sailing Behind Date: 1982

Escape System for British Submarines, 1933
Illustration showing the air-lock system, built into British submarines of the 1930 s, that was designed to allow submariners to escape if their submarine failed

Self portrait photograph with multiple mirrors system
Catalan artist and architect, Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), photographed with a system of multiple mirrors in order to capture different angles of the sitter

Nervous System 18th C
The nervous system of the spine and the front body according to Vieuffens Date: Circa 1760

Indoor filming
Televising a Spanish scene at the Crystal Palace, filmed on cine-film at the studios of the Baird Television Company. On the 2nd February 1935 the Baird system transmitted indoor

Magic Carpet Airborne
The Magic Carpet, favoured transport system of the Arabian Nights

Abandoned rural branch line signal box, Worcestershire, England. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Rocket Mail to I O Wight
Gerard Zucker demonstrates his rocket system for a postal service between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight, but his rocket travels only three kilometres

HANSENs TYPEWRITER / 1880
The remarkable typewriter invented by Rasmus Hans Malling Johan Hansen (1835 - 1890) in 1865, using a completely novel writing ball system

CLAUDE CHAPPE 1763-1805
CLAUDE CHAPPE French Engineer. Invented a telegraph system employing visual semaphore signals. With his brother, he erected signals between Paris & Lille

Anti-Communist Card
DEIN LOS UNTER DEM SOVIET SYSTERN - your fate under the Soviet system - you and your family will be driven from your burning home to Siberia

Internal anatomy
the nervous system of the spine

Twinflower or two-flowered linnaea, Linnaea borealis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany

Thrift, Armeria maritima (Statice armeria). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

SS Lucania - Cunard
SS Lucania. This Cunarder is the first ship to be equipped with Signor Marconis wireless system : for a while she holds the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing. Date: circa 1920s

Wolverine or Gulo gulo.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Walrus and manati, Odobenus rosmarus and Trichechus manatus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Tour de la Fournache - Saint Jean-de-Maurienne
Tour de la Fournache on the road to Arves, just above St Jean de Maurienne - part of the old system of defense of the valley in the environs of Saint Jean-de-Maurienne, France. Date: circa 1910s

Sir Isaac Pitman
SIR ISaC PITMAN Inventor of a system of shorthand Date: 1813 - 1897

RAF personnel completing Thor missile training course
RAF personnel, completing a 13-week training course on the Thor propulsion system at Rocketdyne. From left: Chief Technician Sidney Allen, Junior Technician Graham R.J

Hulluch underground system 1918
Hulluch underground system known as Charing Cross near Loos. The 3rd Australian Tunnel Company engaged in defensive work on the Western Front in France during World War I in January 1918

The world of tomorrow- some dreams of invention run riot; th
Illustration of an aerial mono rail (note date, 1st April 1905) as a vision of the future for railways. The caption states The scientific prophet looks forward to electric traction on this system

Key figures behind tariff reform from Birmingham area
The key figures behind tariff reform from the Birmingham area. Tariff Reform introduced by Joseph and Austen Chamberlain in 1903

Cover design, Pan American Airways timetable
Cover design, Pan American Airways System Atlantic Service timetable, serving Bermuda, America and Europe. July 1939

Traffic lights in Oxford Street
The new traffic light system in operation in Oxford Street, London in 1931 with uncertain pedestrians still warily looking for oncoming traffic

Metropolitan Police Telephone Box System instruction book
A Metropolitan Police instruction book: Telephone Box System, published by Peckham Sub-Division

Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1832 - 1900). British statesman and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Fox Meet in Street Aldin
All involved in the fox hunt make their way along the street, while a mongrel dog and lesser folk are passed by

Comparative Orbits
A diagram of the relative orbit distances of planets in the Solar System and the variable light hitting the Earth during different seasons

Dining in the Moonlight : In the Garden Grill-Room
The Garden Grill-Room at the May Fair Hotel in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London showing diners in black tie and evening dress, attending to by numerous waiters

New dial operated telephone system
Series of three photographs showing a new automatic system of telephoning introduced in Britain in 1911. The movement of a dial operated electrical switches and magnets in the telephone exchange

San Fansisco - Oakland Bay Bridge
Illustration of San Francisco - Oakland Bay bridge, at the time the largest bridge system in the world at 8.25 miles long

Frobels Infant Garden
The concept of KINDERGARTENS originated with Frobels system, which spread from Germany to Britain and throughout the world

Mayhew / Wandsworth Prison
Built in 1851 and originally called the Surrey House of Correction. This picture shows the adult school in the chapel on the separate system

Copernicuss System (2)
The universe with our Sun as its centre, circled by our Earth and the other planets, and by the signs of the Zodiac : Jupiter is shown with its satellites

Samuel Montagu
SAMUEL MONTAGU (born Montagu Samuel) first baron Swaythling Jewish merchant banker in London, statesman (MP for Whitechapel) philanthropist, promoted metric system etc

Berkhampstead Station
A train pulls into the station with passengers waiting on the tracks! With both the railway & a canal system a seemingly rural area appears on the verge of change. Date: 1852

Zermatt Mountain Rly
The Brig-Visp-Zermatt mountain railway operates on the rack and pinion system of Roman Abt

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