Technology Collection (page 17)

Acoustic torpedoes by G. H. Davis
Off the secret list: torpedoes which hunt their prey by ear, and leave no telltale bubble track. Explanatory drawings showing how electric

Atom bombers view of Bikini Atoll by G. H. Davis
Target for annihilation: an atom bombers view of Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific Ocean, with the fleet of warship victims assembled in the lagoon. Date: 1946

The Planetarium by G. H. Davis
A device for the teaching of astronomy: the planetarium. How the courses of stars and planets are projected onto an artificial sky : a planetarium in diagram. Date: 1927

Submarine mines, WW1
How submarine mines look when laid on the seabed. Each one contains a charge of gun cotton, and explodes on contact. Date: 1914

Early British dirigible, front view
Early British dirigible, seen from the front, on the ground with crew. Date: early 20th century

Early British dirigible on the ground
Early British dirigible, seen here on the ground, with crew. Date: early 20th century

Early British dirigible on the ground with crew
Early British dirigible, seen here on the ground, with crew. Date: early 20th century

Early British dirigible in flight. Date: early 20th century

Business card design, man with gramophone
Business card design, depicting a man sitting in a green armchair with a gramophone with an enormous horn at his side. Date: 20th century

Man and woman with radio equipment
A man and a woman sit with radio equipment, including earphones, clearly enjoying what they are hearing

Training in taking telephone messages
Men of the London Fire Brigade being trained in taking telephone messages. Date: 1930

Men working at watchroom telephone switchboard
Firefighters working on the watchroom telephone switchboard at Southwark Fire Station. Date: circa 1909

Fernand Forest - French Inventor
Fernand Forest (1851-1914) French inventor and specialist in propulsion technologies. Played a key role in the history and development of the automobile. Date: 1888

Montgolfier balloon, built in the garden of Jean-Baptiste Reveillon, Rue de Montreuil, Faubourg St Antoine, Paris, funded by the Academie Royale des Sciences. Depicted here being filled by gas

Balloon being filled with gas
Balloon in a yard, being filled with gas from a barrel in preparation for flight. Date: late 18th century

Amateur wireless hobbyists
Two amateur wireless hobbyists listening on their headphones

Sir Richard Tangye
Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye, civil engineer and industrialist, manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. Seen here in the late 1850s with the Great Eastern steamship before its launch to

Pluto Pipe-Lines across the Channel by G. H. Davis
Series of illustrations showing the workings of the Pluto ( Pipe Line Under The Ocean ) pipes across the English Channel which pumped millions of gallons of petrol from Great Britain to France during

Louis Daguerr
LOUIS JACQUES MANDE DAGUERRE, French artist and pioneer of photography : inventor of the daguerrotype which was for a time the cutting edge of photographic technology. Date: 1789 - 1851

Jacob Perkins
JACOB PERKINS American inventor of printing technology, boilers, engines and other machinery for ships depicted for some reason in classical dress ! Date: 1766 - 1849

Palissy Honoured
BERNARD PALISSY pioneer of ceramic technology is honoured with a statue in his native town of Saintes. Date: 1510 - 1589

Palissy at Work - 2
BERNARD PALISSY at work on his breakthrough in ceramic technology. Date: 1510 - 1589

Chr. Phil. Oberkampf - 4
CHRISTOPHE-PHILIPPE OBERKAMPF German-born manufacturer who introduced important technology into the French cotton industry. Date: 1738 - 1815

Chr. Phil. Oberkampf - 3
CHRISTOPHE-PHILIPPE OBERKAMPF German-born manufacturer who introduced important technology into the French cotton industry. Date: 1738 - 1815

Giant German Glider
A group of men admire a giant glider plane in Germany. Date: early 1930s

China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Village Community
China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Rural village Community Date: circa 1910s

New phone line at the number 27 Post Office, Japan
The opening of the new telephone line at the number 27 Post Office, Japan. Inset portraits of two postal officials. Date: 1911

Rotary hand quern for grinding corn - Palestine, Middle East. Date: circa 1920s

Drying Fish - Kamchatka Peninsula - Far Eastern Russia
The Method the people of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far Eastern Russia dry fish (on racks) and melt down the grease and oils for other uses. Date: circa 1800

Mapuche Girl grinding toasted wheat - Southern Chile
Mapuche Girl grinding toasted wheat on a quern stone - Southern Chile. Date: circa 1910s

Persian Waterwheel on the Indus, Pakistan - irrigation technology. Date: circa 1910s

Fun Seaside Transport - Bubble Boating. This postcard was presented as an award for correct dictation in 1931! Date: late 1920s

Communication - Far easier for the younger generation, even in 1903! The little girl: " Grandmother, Dad said he did not want to kiss you, by phone" - the response is a miserable Granny

Ploughing with Buffalo - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

Worlds Largest Single Bascule Lift Bridge - Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA Date: 1911

Spinning wool - Tangiers, Morocco Date: circa 1910s

Using a Singer Sewing Machine on the Caroline Islands - a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Date: 1894

Cuzco, Peru - Incan Ruins, adorned by some intrepid tourists! Date: circa 1910s

Mechanical fogging device published in Natures Connections: An Exploration of Natural History (2000) by Nicola McGirr

Brewster Angle Meter
Placing a gem inside a Brewster Angle Meter. This instrument was introduced in 1999. This instrument can be used to find the refractive index (RI) of gems, which can help with identification

Revophone Crystal Set

New York. Brooklyn Bridge in 1883. Engraving

Saint Louis Brigantine. Painting by J. Bastida, 1903

SPAIN. Segovia. Roman aqueduct. Roman art. Early empire, 1st c. Roman art. Early Empire

LEO XIII (1810-1903). Pope (1878-1903). His Holiness the Pope sending a Jubilee phonographic message to the American people. Engraving

Moscow. Tsars Palace in the Kremlin, 19th c. Engraving

Astrolabium owned by the king Alfonso X el Sabio. SPAIN. Madrid. Navy Museum

Phoenician and Assyrian battle ships. SPAIN. Madrid. Navy Museum

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