Tube Collection (page 9)

Thomas Edison / French
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor speaking into his perfected Phonograph

Thomas Edison / Tube Speak
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor speaking through his Perfected Phonograph in America

Egyptian Frocks 1924
Egyptian influence. Green tube dress with gold fabric draped diagonally from one shoulder & fastened at the hip; black print dress with handkerchief drapery at the hips

Piccadilly Circus Tube
Piccadilly Circus station, on the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway : the American financier C T Yerkes master-minded this much-needed extension to the system

X-Ray Tube / Vickers / 1936
Million volt X-ray tube; developed by Metropolitan Vickers; installed in St. Bartholomews Hospital

Ignitron Device C1936
The Westinghouse " Ignitron" tube was designed to register fast-moving objects

Natural Horn on its Own
The NATURAL HORN - a conical tube of brass, some four metres in length but coiled for convenience

Removal of Fluid
Fluid removed from a patients abdomen using a stomach drain

Marie Curie in 1921
MARIE CURIE in her laboratory

Self-Adjusting Clepsydra
The SELF-ADJUSTING CLEPSYDRA is attributed to Ctesibius, a mechanical engineer of Alexandria, Egypt: the technology involves a dual action of tube and reservoir Date: circa 200 BC

Menai Tubular Bridge
Construction of the main tube on the staging of Stephensons Britannia tubular bridge across the Menai Strait

Advert. Bells Phone
Baxendales specialitites: Blacks patent Bell signalling speaking tube apparatus

Fire Escape Shute / 1884
Merryweathers fire-escape ladder and canvas chute, enabling persons to descend rapidly from a burning building

HANCKWITZ ? -1756
AMBROSE GODFREY HANCKWITZ An apothecary from Hamburg who came to England to assist Robert Boyle and manufacture chemicals, including the first phosphorous

Lifting Water 1690
Device for raising water : the lower end of the tube is submerged, so when the string of discs is pulled through it by turning the handle, they bring water with them

Sheltering at Aldwych
Aldwych tube station used as a shelter during the London Blitz

Elixir of Hate
Illustration for The elixir of hate by George Allan England (first published in 1911)

About to Clean Teeth
This lady is about to clean her teeth with Dubarrys Tooth Paste which is supplied in a Collapsible Tube

Building underground railway near Kings Cross, London
Construction work in progress on the worlds first underground railway near Kings Cross, Central London

Underground railway works, Thames Embankment, London
Underground railway works on the Thames Embankment, Central London

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