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Deep sea diver in diving bell, off The Lizard, CornwallDeep sea diver in a diving bell, preparing to descend to examine oil drilling equipment below the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s
Oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles off The Lizard, CornwallOil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s
Telefunken Wireless Co Station, Apia, German Samoa, PacificTelefunken Wireless Company Station, Apia, capital of German Samoa, Upolu, Pacific Ocean. Date: 1914
Hama, Syria, Bridge over Orontes River and Giant WaterwheelsHama, Syria - Great Bridge over the El-Assi (Orontes) River and the Giant waterwheels. The city is renowned for these seventeen norias, which locals claim date back to 1100 BC
Tessina spy cameraClose-up of the Tessina camera, small enough for spying activities and other undercover work. Date: 1970s
China - Using high-pressure water jet in mining operation. Date: circa 1930s
Bessemer process. First inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron to the open hearth furnace. Deutsches Museum. Munich. Germany
Industrial Revolution. London. Interior of an English factory. Late 18th century. Nineteenth-century
Prehistoric Art. Neolithic. Portugal. Stone tool. From Anta Grande da Comenda. High Neolithic. Archaeology Museum. Montemor-o-Novo. Portugal
Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches MuseHistory. Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology). Munich. Germany
Diorama. Extraction of salt. Wieliczka Salt Mine, PolandMining history. Diorama. Extraction of salt. Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland. In use since the 18th century. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany
Section of an underground mine. Model of a team in the second half of the nineteenth century. Scale 1:25. Manufactured in 1906. By R. Brown. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology)
Travelling Steam Lokomobile Maschinenfabrik Rudolf Wolf, Magdeburg-Buckau, 1862. This first locomobile of the Wolf company was used to drive threshing machines
Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Goldforging Hammer. Codex AtlantStudy of Leonardo da Vinci. Goldforging Hammer. Hammer for beating precious metals into very thin foils that can be turned into coins, medals or embossed foils
Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Printing Press. Codex Atlanticus, sheet 995 recto, 1497. Model by Mario Alberto and Vittorio Somenzi, 1952-1957. The Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci
Paddle boat. Study by Leonardo da Vinci, 15th century. ModePaddle boat. Study by Leonardo da Vinci for a paddle propulsion boat. Windsor, Royal Library, sheet 12650, about 1490. Model by Louis Tursini, 1952
The double catapult. Designed by Leonardo da Vinci. 15th cenRenaissance. Military Engineering. Drawn in the Atlantic Codex (folio 152 1485-1490) of Leonardo Da Vinci. The double catapult, with bucket and sling. Model
Nervous system Leonardo da Vincis drawing. 15 th century. Leonardo studies the central nervous system in the ox brain an ingenious technique allows him to reproduce the shape of the brain ventricles
Muscle structure Leonardo da Vincis drawing. 15th centuryMuscle structure. Leonardo da Vinci believed the study of the human body and of its proportions and muscles to be useful in artistic representation
Cardiovascular system Leonardo da vincis drawingCardiovascular systems drawing. In 1513 Leonardo da Vinci to study the heart and the circulatory system through animal dissections. Windsor, Royal Library 19073, 1510-1513
Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Mechanical loom. 15th centuryRenaissance. Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Weaving machines. Mechanical loom. 15th century. Model. The Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. Italy
Thermo-electric battery Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-189Thermo-electric battery, invented in 1866 by French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891). Colored engraving
Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891). Pantelegraph. Colored engravinGiovanni Caselli (1815-1891). Pantelegraph patented in 1861 for sending and receiving images over long distances through the telegraph. Colored engraving
The Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi (1318-1388). Used to determine the position of planets according to he Ptolemaic theory of the Universe. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci
Two-valve radio-receiver. 1917. Officine Marconi, Genova. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy
Computer. MAC model. Early 80 s. 20th century. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy
Flint tools from Gjera, Vendsyssel. Early Bronze Age. 1700-1Flint tools. From Gjera. Vendsyssel. Early Bronze Age. 1700-1500 BC. National Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark
Flint daggers. Dagger Period. 2000-1500 BCFlint daggers. Middle Dagger Period to Early Bronze Age. 2000-1500 BC. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark
Tools of flint and animal bones. Performed by Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon). Upper Paleolithic. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark
Newcomen steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. It consisted of a pump designed to reduce water steam in the galleries of mines. Engraving
Phonoplex telegraph invented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). Engraving
Woman police officer on the phone in a police stationWoman police officer (Maggie Coombs) on the telephone in a police station. Date: circa late 1970s
Woman police officer with car and radio, Egham, SurreyWoman police officer (mobile officer) on duty in Egham, Surrey, standing by a police car and speaking on a handheld radio
Marconi monument, Poldhu, southern CornwallClose-up of plaque on the Marconi memorial monument, Poldhu, southern Cornwall. The monument marks the location of Poldhu Wireless Station
Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? WW1Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? A German couple and their daughter go for an innocent country walk, but gradually metamorphose into a concrete platform, a camera and a telephone! Date: 1915
Stocking frame, knitting machine, 18th century.. Stocking frame, knitting machine, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after an Illustration by J
Vertical windmill, Captain Stephen Hooper sVertical windmill, Captain Stephen Hoopers horizontal windmill.. Windmills: common vertical windmill and Captain Stephen Hoopers horizontal windmill in Margate, 18th century
The Morse Cotton Baling Press. Cotton Hydraulic Press, New Morse system. Installed in New York. 1881. Xylography
MEUCCI, Antonio (1808 - 1889). Italian inventor of the telephone. Meuccis telephone. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci
Watchroom at Fire Brigade HQ, SouthwarkWatchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received
British soldier in trench with periscope, WW1A British soldier in a trench, observing the enemy through a periscope on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
Floating landing strips for aircraft by G. H. DavisSurface tension seadromes: floating landing strips for aircraft. A revolutionary British invention: a floating aerodrome tested by the Admiralty. 1945
Anti-tank mines by G. H. DavisAnti-tank mines: a deadly defensive weapon in mechanised warfare during the Second World War. Types of British and German land mines -- a desert minefield being laid, and in operation. Date: 1942
Diagram of a torpedo by G. H. DavisThe most destructive naval weapon of the Second World War: the torpedo. Its working and methods of firing diagrammatically explained. Date: 1939
German infra-red equipment by G. H. DavisBlack light: the cats eye effect of the German infra-red telescopes and searchlights in darkness. How to see in the dark -- a German military secret paralleled by Allied inventions
New anti-submarine torpedo by G. H. DavisAn acoustic torpedo which seeks out its prey: the new anti-submarine weapon which alters course and depth in pursuit of its target, diagrammatically explained. Date: 1950
Whale hunting vessel and factory by G. H. DavisFloating whale factories: ships which reduce their prey to oil and by-products on the spot. A whale-hunting factory and its catcher vessels at work in the Antarctic
Cartoon, His Masters Voice, WW1Cartoon, His Masters Voice, showing Kaiser Wilhelm as a German dachshund looking back at a British bulldog inside the amplifier of a wind-up gramophone