Technology Collection (page 10)

Telephone on a wall. 1889

125 years of Progress in Art Deco style
125 years of Progress (1810-1935) in Art Deco style. 1936

Pre-Columbian art. Pre-Incan. Moche culture. Northern Peru. 100 AD-800 AD. Regional Development Epoch. Anthropomorphic vessel.18 x 18 x 11 cm. From Peru.Private collection

Egypt, Africa - A Sakia, used for irrigation. Date: 1910s

Reichspost staff in Berlin, postwar Germany. The Reichspost (German Empire postal service) was taken over by the Allied Control Council with the Berlin Declaration of June 1945. Date: circa 1946

WW2 radio set from a captured Heinkel III plane
A man examines a radio set from a captured Heinkel III aircraft. It can be used either with kite or rod aerial, and flashes an automatic S.O.S on certain wavelengths. Date: 1940

Defence against the deadly long-range missiles 1958
Illustration by George Horace Davis, showing some ideas for missile interception, based on radar, computers, satellite and missile rockets in the future, and the continuing need for manned aircraft

Cartoon, Radio versus Television, by Rich. circa 1930s

Poster, Man with telephone and aeroplanes
Poster, Man on the telephone, apparently booking to fly on an aeroplane, published in Rotterdam, Netherlands. 20th century

Poster, The Speaking Clock
Poster, The Correct Time by the Speaking Clock. 20th century

Poster, Come on the Telephone, designed by E McKnight Kauffer. 1934

Poster, The Way to the Complete Home, advertising the need for a telephone. (2 of 2) 20th century

Poster, Night Telegraph Letters. 20th century

Poster, Use the Transatlantic Telephone, Europe Welcomes You, designed by Eric C Owen. 1937

Poster, Telegrams to Europe at Half Rates. 20th century

Poster, The Telephone in Business, showing a female telephone operator and a map of England. 20th century

Poster, Telegrams, in black, grey and beige. 20th century

Splitting the Atom by G. H. Davis
A possible source of unlinited power. Tapping a source of power that may drive all the machinery in the World: Experiments designed to release the forces imprisoned in the atom. Date: 1924

Atoms of which things are made
Sir William Braggs experiments in his opening lecture, concerning the Nature of Things delivered at the Royal Institution. Date: 1924

General view, Herstmonceux Observatory, Sussex. Date: 1963

Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, USA
Interior, Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: 1936

MIT and Harvard Bridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Bridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1915

Ken Achurch with spying equipment -- a fly bug in a glass tube, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Date: 1970s

Nipple radio transmitter for use in spying. Date: 1970s

Model fly for use in spying
Model fly invented by Ken Achurch for use in spying and other undercover activities. Date: 1970s

Security expert with latest spy kit
Security expert demonstrating the latest spy kit, including a book and a telephone directory with equipment concealed inside them. Date: 1970s

Biomedical centre, London -- a woman attaches sensors to a patient. Date: 1972

Underwater house telephone equipment, Malta
Telephone equipment connected with an underwater, inflatable house, being used on a beach in Malta. The house was anchored to the seabed, some 50 feet deep, in Paradise Bay, off the coast of Malta

Students with underwater house equipment, Malta
Students and equipment connected with an underwater, inflatable house on a beach in Malta. One student is being fitted with diving gear

Underwater house floating in the sea, Malta
An underwater, inflatable house floating in the sea, about to be lowered to the seabed by students on the coast of Malta. The house was anchored to the seabed, some 50 feet deep, in Paradise Bay

Underwater house equipment under construction, Malta
Young man assembling electronic equipment connected with an underwater, inflatable house under construction on a beach in Malta

Underwater house being carried, Malta
An underwater, inflatable house being carried towards the sea by students on a beach in Malta. The house was then anchored to the seabed, some 50 feet deep, in Paradise Bay, off the coast of Malta

Underwater house on the seashore, Malta
An underwater, inflatable house on the seashore, about to be lowered into the sea by students on a beach in Malta. The house was then anchored to the seabed, some 50 feet deep, in Paradise Bay

Astronomer and telescope, Herstmonceux Observatory, Sussex. 1963

Anti-snoring machine
The inventor of an anti-snoring machine attaches it to a woman for testing. Date: 1960s

Horse doping tests in a laboratory, Newmarket
Horse doping tests -- a laboratory technician in a white coat pours a sample from a large glass jar into a smaller container as part of the testing process at the Horse Doping Test Centre in

Underwater house under construction, Malta
An underwater, inflatable house under construction by students on a beach in Malta. The house was then anchored to the seabed, some 50 feet deep, in Paradise Bay, off the coast of Malta

Prehistory. Metal Age. Bronze Age. Bronze spear head. From Castelltercol, Catalonia. Episcopal Museum. Vic. Spain

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