Technique Collection (page 7)

Fishing Boats on the River Erdre, Nantes, France. These bateau-style boats have a small flat bottom with straight sides and were used as early as 1671 on the Saint Lawrence River, French Quebec

Same woman in five different poses in the one shot
A rather unusual, almost surreal composite photographic postcard featuring the same woman in five seperate poses, combined together into one image by the clever use of mirrors. Date: circa 1912

Oiling and Coaling in mid-ocean
Bunkering at sea: oiling and coaling in mid-ocean. The new method and the old- a contrast. The top drawing show the simple

Sierra Leone - Making a Seine net
Sierra Leone - Fishermen making a Seine net. A seine is a large fishing net that hangs in the water due to weights along the bottom edge and floats along the top

A tourist before an elaborate Turkish carved alcove, showing fine technique in relief work and beautiful sculpted patternation

Two thatchers at work
Two thatchers repair the thatch on the roofs of two traditional country cottages. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Gill, Andre 1840 - 1885
Andre Gill (real name, Gosset de Guines) French caricaturist, credited with inventing the enlarged head technique used here

Steel Frame Building construction - London
The building of the Film House - 142 Wardour Street - an early photographic example of the technique of steel frame construction - still the favoured method of putting up a building seen everywhere

Dr. Howard Demonstrating Resuscitation, Royal Humane Society
Engraving showing Dr. Howard, Medical Officer of New York Harbour, demonstrating his resusciation technique at the Receiving House of the Royal Humane Society, Hyde Park, London 1878

W. G. Grace batting in the Nets at Lords, 1895
Engraving of Dr. William Gilbert Grace (1848-1915), practising his batting in the nets at Lords Cricket Ground, 1895. As can be seen, a large crowd has gathered to watch the Doctors technique

Royal Humane Society
A sketch of the receiving house of the Royal Humane Society. The society was founded in 1774 by Dr William Hawes and Dr Thomas Cogan, to save people from drowning by using resuscitation

Making Frilling
Photograph depicting a woman making a frill, perhaps to trim a hat

Hair transplant
Entitled, If the War Makes you Lose Your Wool - Try This, this illustration shows an early form of hair transplanting, championed by a Dr. Szekely of Budapest

Massage & Gymnastics
Various diagrams depicting massage technique

How Bombs are Dropped
At the start of the war, the technique of dropping bombs was primitive, and even flying at low level, precision was out of the question

Baseball Technique 1886
An illustration demonstrating how a baseball pitcher applies rotary motion to the ball

Roman Testudo / Sieges
The TESTUDO (tortoise), a Roman siege technique using overlapping shields, giving protection from arrows and boiling oil, and serving as a platform to raise attackers

Liszt / Pianist / Vie Parisi
A humorous comment on the Hungarian composers dramatic keyboard technique

Ridinger Haute Ecole 28
Haute Ecole : Training in riding technique, turning the horse

Ploughing, China
CHINA Chinese ploughing technique

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