Technology Collection (page 14)

Harpoons. 6500-4000 BC. Denmark
Harpoons of deer antler for hunting small whales and seals. 6500-4000 BC. From Zealand coasts and fjords of Eastern Jutland. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

De Architectura by Vitruvius. Detail
Labourers working on the foundations of a building. De Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius (88-26 BC). Book IX, page 83 v. Venice. 1511

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931). American Inventor. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Siemens, Werner von (1816-1892). Engraving
Siemens, Werner von (Lenthe, 1816-Charlottenburg, 1892). German engineer. Nineteenth-century engraving

Heinr Hirzel machine to produce gas for lighting. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1886

Little girl on the telephone on a Valentine card -- Hello! Yes I ll be your Valentine. Date: early 20th century

Police officers at work in communications room
Police officers, male and female, at work in a Met Police communications room. Date: circa early 1970s

Woman police officer at work in communications room
Woman police officer at work in front of a computer screen in a Met Police communications room. Date: circa late 1970s

Male and female police officers in Westminster, London
Male and female police officers (Sue Maudsley on the left) in Westminster, central London, with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in the background

Scouts / Telegraphy 20C
Two boy scouts using wireless telegraphy in a rural setting. Date: early 20th century

Telephone Exchange 1883
Five women working on a telephone exchange. Date: 1883

British Michelin Prize
Some of the ingenious devices in the cockpit area of Mr Codys aeroplane, which won the British Michelin Prize for the longest flight over a marked course (189.3 miles) Date: 31 December 1910

Paper Printing Machine
A machine for printing the lines on paper for accountants ledgers. Date: mid 19th century

Electrical gold finder
Experiments with an electrical device to find gold underground. Date: 1892

A large circular saw. Date: 1898

Robot shocks a group of men
A robot strides across a room, shocking a group of men. They were hideous things, without brains, without feelings, without souls

Futuristic machine for reading human thought waves
A futuristic machine which registers and translates human thought waves, even if the subject is unconscious or unable to speak. Date: 1928

Early model of a Remington typewriter
An early model of a Remington typewriter, sitting on a table. Date: 1877

Underground construction work, Westminster, London 1867
Underground railway construction work at Westminster, Central London, 1867 Date: 1867

The Kings Christmas Speech, 1933
A page from The Sphere December 1933, entitled, The Kings Christmas Speech - how it will be broadcast to the world". Pictured are engineers

Seismograph on display, Selfridges, Oxford Street, London
Seismograph on display in the Information Bureau, on the third floor of Selfridges department store, Oxford Street, London, used for recording earthquakes. Date: circa 1932

The Armstrong Trophy at the Great Exhibition of 1862. 1862

Advertisement, IBM Corporation
Advertisement, IBM (International Business Machines) Corporation -- speeding business through electronics. 1950

Cover of Der Eisenbahner - Volume 1
Striking embossed Cover of Der Eisenbahner - Volume 1, featuring a train cum dragon speeding out of the cover in a shower of sparks and plumes of smoke and team.. Date: 1902

Telegraph lines crossing the American Great Plains
Telegraph lines running alongside a railway line, crossing the American Great Plains. Date: circa 1880

Verona, Italy - the main scene shows the Castel Vecchio Bridge (Scaliger Bridge) and the inset shows the unique floating boat mills of Verona, the last one of which stopped working in 1929

Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California, USA
Wireless telegraph station on Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California, USA. circa 1910

Lighthouse keeper, Pendeen Lighthouse, Cornwall
Lighthouse keeper, Pendeen Lighthouse, West Cornwall. Date: 20th century

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall

Department store by night, Rochester, New York State, USA
The Duffy McInnerney department store (opened 1907) lit up at night in Main Street, Rochester, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1910

Electricity bill for resident of Lima, New York State, USA
Electricity bill for Mrs William Vary, a resident of Lima, New York State, USA. The power supplier is the Lima Honeoye Electric Light & Railroad Company, six kilowatts were consumed in May 1918

Machinery Hall - International Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland. Date: 1907

Falls Street at night, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA
Falls Street at night, lit by electric lights, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1910

Niagara Falls at night, with lighting, New York State, USA
Niagara Falls at night, with multicoloured electric lighting using one billion lights, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1915

Beacon on Tuscarora Mountain, Pennsylvania, USA
Beacon on the summit of Tuscarora Mountain, Lincoln Highway, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1930s

Illustration, A Song of the English, Deep Sea Cables
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Single microscope mechanisms and parts.. Single microscope mechanisms and parts. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr

John Smeatons water pressure engine.. John Smeatons water pressure engine, elevations and sections of valve, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after an illustration by J

The Stanhope or iron printing press, 18th century.. The Stanhope or iron printing press, invented by Earl Charles Stanhope, 18th century

Steam engines by Savery, Blakey, Kier and Papin.. Steam engines by Thomas Savery, William Blakey, Mr Kier, and Denis Papin, 17th and 18th centuries

John Smeatons steam engine, 19th century.. Steam engine, on the principle of Thomas Newcomen, as constructed by John Smeaton, 19th century

Overshot and undershot waterwheels, 19th century.. Overshot and undershot waterwheels, 19th century, including examples designed by John Smeaton and Peter Nouaille. Copperplate engraving by W

Water works, machines for raising water, 19th century.. Water works, machines for raising water, water bellows, Chremnitz fountain, and Mr John Whitehursts device. Copperplate engraving by W

Waterwheels, water power of the 19th century.. Waterwheels, 19th century, including breast wheel with two shuttles, overshot breast wheel, and overshot wheel. Copperplate engraving by W

Voltaism, chemical equipment to generate electricity, 19th century.. Voltaism, chemical equipment to generate electricity, 19th century. Copperplate engraving by W

Satellite at Goonhilly Earth Station, Cornwall
The worlds first parabolic satellite communications antenna, nicknamed Arthur, at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, Goonhilly Downs, near Helston, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Worsted manufacture- breaking, spinning and roving frame.. Equipment used in worsted manufacture: breaking frame, spinning frame and roving frame, 18th century

Wool manufacturing machine from the 18th century.. Wool manufacturing machine from the 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary

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