Turns Collection (page 3)

Midas / Flowers Turn Gold
King Midas turns flowers to gold

King Midas / Turns to Gold
Everything King Midas touches turns to gold

Wood Turning, Tunisia
A carpenter turns wood supported using his feet

Turning a Cam shaft
An engineer turns a cam shaft on a large piece of complex mechanical and elctronic machinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Period musical instrument making
A company specialising in the production of period musical instruments. A man turns a piece of wood on a lathe which will eventually form part of a recorder

Our Costly Arms
A recruiting sergeant is shocked to discover that a volunteer for the Army turns out to have a wife and eleven children and comments that he will cost as much as the Colonel in army pay

Glaucus the Sea-God
Glaucus - fisherman turned into a sea- god by accident - meets the water-nymph Scylla and instantly falls in love with her, but Circe, jealous, turns her into a monster

Herakles & Periclymene
To outwit his enemy Herakles, Periclymene keeps changing shape, but when he turns himself into an eagle, Herakles is able to shoot him down

Boats into Nymphs
Turnus burns the boats of Aeneas, but they are made from wood sacred to the mother- goddess Cybele, so she turns them into sea-nymphs

Asklepios as a Dragon
When ambassadors from Rome come to Epidaurus to solicit his help, Asklepios turns himself into a dragon, and travels thus back to Rome with them

Diomedes Companions
Though he refuses to risk the wrath of Aphrodite, the companions of Diomedes take a chance - so they have only themselves to blame when she turns them all into birds

Julius Caesar as a Comet
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR The murdered statesman is given a new lease of life by Aphrodite, who turns him into a comet who will illuminate the skies as he did the Earth

Wolf Turned to Stone
When an angry Nereid sends a wolf to ravage the cattle of Peleus, he asks Thetis for help, and she turns the wolf into a rock

Fable / the Maiden
THE MAIDEN: A beautiful but proud maid turns down her many suitors for not matching up to her standards; in time her beauty fades and the suitors fade away

Whirling Dervish
Dervish or Turkish monk who turns by devotion - a whirling dervish

Brick Making
Brick making: a wheelbarrow is used to transport moulded bricks while a pony turns a mixer to produce the clay, sand and water mixture

Advertisement for Daimler Double-Six car
Advertisement for the Daimler Double-Six car, the engine that turns like a turbine - supreme among the worlds best cars

Perseus and Phineus
Phineus, wanting Andromeda for himself, attacks the guests at Perseuss wedding, so Perseus fetches the Gorgon Medusas head, tells all to look away, and turns Phineus into stone

Ascalaphius into Owl
A son of Acheron, he reveals to Zeus that Persephone has eaten pomegranate seeds (thus condemning her to stay with Hades) so she turns him into an owl with Phlegethon water

Aglaura into Rock
Aglaura, daughter of Cecrops, is inspired by Athena, who hates her, with jealousy of her sister Herse, beloved by Hermes, who consequently turns her into a rock

Biblis into a Spring
Biblis falls in love with her brother Caunus but he flees her incestuous lust; she, melting into tears, turns into a spring, which doubtless cools her passions

Sailors into Dolphins
He turns some sailors, who deceived him as to their destination, into dolphins

Hyria into a Fountain
When her sulky son throws himself off a cliff, Hyria turns into a spring, while the boy himself becomes a bird in mid-fall

Boy into Lizard
Demeter, desperately seeking her abducted daughter, gets thirsty : the boy Stellio mocks her for drinking so quickly, so of course she turns him into a lizard

Battus into a Rock
Hermes asks peasant Battus to watch over cattle hes stolen from Apollo, then to test him, comes in disguise and asks where they are, he tells him, so he turns him into a rock

Coronation Day 1953
CORONATION OF ELIZABETH II The new Queen (in profile, wearing her crown), turns to Prince Phillip, as they greet the crowds from the balcony of Buckingham Palace

Rosting on Spits
A turnspit turns a spit on which joints of meat and gamebirds are roasting

Bear Turns Wheel / Olaus
A bear is trained to turn a wheel

Elephants / Circus Lorch
During a performance by the Circus Lorch, at Linz (Austria), the elephant, teased by the clowns, turns on them impatiently. Good on you, Jumbo !

Ufos / Books / Tollet
Pierre Tollet MEURTRE EN SOUCOUPE VOLANTE Popular French thriller featuring a flying saucer which turns out to be a secret military device

Guinea-Pig Family
In the Spring a young guinea- pigs fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love

ECHO
The nymph Echo, in love with Narcissus, pines away when it turns out he loves only himself, and she becomes nothing but a voice, echoing from a cave

Persephone & Pluto
Summer turns to Autumn, and to her dismay Persephone (Proserpina) must ride with her husband Pluto (Hades) in his chariot to the underworld until the following Spring

Afrite Turns into a Dog
An Afrite, or evil genie, turns into a dog and rushes at the kings daughter

Becky Refuses a Proposal
A young lady turns down a propsal from an older gentleman. (Becky Sharp and Sir Pitt Crawley in " Vanity Fair" )

CALANDER SAYS NO
The CALANDER (a kind of lark) knows if sick people will recover; held over the sickbed, if it turns towards the patient s/he will recover, if not (as here) s/he won t

Shortest Day 1886
The Shortest Day: Everyone gathers around the fire as twilight turns to night

Houdin and Scarf
The scarf - just an ordinary scarf - but when Houdin gives it a shake, it turns out to have been full of feathers !

Lot Leaves Sodom
Lot and his daughters flee the Cities of the Plain, but his wife turns for one last look and is turned into a pillar of salt

Caesar Becomes a Comet
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR The murdered statesman is given a new lease of life by Aphrodite, who turns him into a comet who will illuminate the skies as he did the Earth

Scylla into Monster
A nymph beloved by the sea-god Glaucus, she arouses the jealousy of the witch Circe who turns her into a monster, her limbs changing into the heads of dogs !

Orpheus Rescues Eurydice
Orpheus tries to rescue his wife Eurydice from the Underworld, but he mustn t look back as they go : at the last minute he turns to check shes still there... alas !

Trench Listening Post
A French " listening post" in " No Mans Land" where soldiers took turns to listen out for surprise enemy attacks

Hamper Hypothesis 4
THE HAMPER HYPOTHESIS - 4 The child, who arrives fully dressed, turns out to be a boy - Gracious heavens ! they exclaim, Its just what we always wanted !

Borodin - Igor - 9
Khan Kontchak, though a Tartar bent on attacking Putivl, turns out to be very decent chap who allows Vladimir to marry his daughter and respects Igors gallantry

Mothieu-Ling Battle 1894
BATTLE OF THE MOTHIEU-LING PASS - Japanese general Yamagata, attacked by the Chinese, turns the tables on them and captures all their positions

Lamplighter (Petherick)
London characters: London is lit by gas lamps now, and every evening the LAMPLIGHTER must switch on every lamp in the metropolis, and every morning switch them off again

Organistrum
A larger form of hurdy-gurdy, sometimes used in churches; the right hand turns a handle which rubs the strings against a resined wheel while the left hand fingers the keys

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