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Trevithick & Vivians steam carriage 1801Richard Trevithick and Andrew Vivians steam car driving on ordinary roads. 1801
Walter Hancocks steam-powered road vehicle 1833Walter Hancocks Autopsy, high pressure steam vehicle with passengers in London. Date: 1833
De Dion-Bouton Tr鰡rdoux steam Phaeton 1885De Dion-Bouton was a French automobile manufacturer, here is one of thier inventions in August 1884. Date: August 1884
Children playing on London streets 1900sEdwardian children playing on the empty streets with nothing more than some chalk, rope and wheel and hoop. 1900s
Harold Lloyd in SpeedyHarold Lloyd (1893-1971) - American comic film actor, producer and director - seen here as Harold Speedy Swift in Speedy (1928). Date: 1928
An Ancient British warrior and his chariotAn Ancient Briton with his war chariot. Note the sold form of the wheels and the addition of scythe blades to cause additional damage when engaging enemy forces. Date: Circa 100BC
Steam-washing machinery at St. Pancras WorkhouseThe steam-washing machinery at St. Pancras workhouse was a combination of Macalpines Washing machines and Manloves dash wheel and hydro-extractor, all driven by steam-power. Date: 1857
BUGATTI 57.s MODEL 1930SThe Bugatti 57.S competition model racing car. Date: 1930s
Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, Sussex, the site of many deaths and rescues. Seen here are members of the rescue team at the top of the cliff, transporting a piece of lifting equipment
Cartoon, The good trader. A salesman of food and other items offers a French soldier some Camembert cheese for a much lower price if he will say where the 20th Corps is
It took two men several hours three times a week to wind up the Clock Tower (Elizabeth Tower), so Londoners could get an accurate time. Date: 1900
The village farrier (blacksmith) sharpening a pair of garden shears at his wheel, Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. Date: 1950s
Sailor at the wheel of a German naval vessel during World War One. Date: 1915
The Great Wheel - Earls Court, Londoncirca 1910s
Grape Press Date: 1880
Crushing Device Date: 1880
Farmer Irrigates Land Date: 1948
Engine Trouble Date: 1954
Blonde in Drivers Seat Date: 1950
Captain Steers Boat Date: 1950
Early Model Automobile Date: 1950
Duke and Duchess of York - Ashtead Potteries, SurreyDuke and Duchess of York visiting the Ashtead Potteries, Surrey - founded to train disabled ex-servicemen in pottery. Date: 1928
Roquefort - Cheese Manufacture - Aveyon - France - The Caves. Date: circa 1910s
Mechanism of the Great Cloak 1857In 1851, Edmund Beckett Denison designed the mechanism for the clock of the Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament in London), responsible for the chimes of Big Ben. Date: 1857
Hansom cab 1875Two-wheeled Hanson cab, waiting for a fare. Date: 1875
Hansom cab 1868Two-wheeled Hanson cab, taking passengers to their destination from Tunbridge railway station. Date: 1868
Kaolin manufacture of ceramicsKaolin manufacture, near St. Austell in Cornwall, clay works with working water wheel. Date: 19th century
Corn hand-mill. Date: circa early 13th century
SPINNING WHEEL AND REELTHE GREAT SPINNING-WHEEL AND THE REEL Date: circa 1730
VASES MADEVases and jugs being manufactured- one lady looks intent on smashing them Date: 1930s
Draisienne 1819Draisienne or Dandy Horse. Date: 1819
TEA - CUP THAT CHEERSA thirsty sailor enjoys a cuppa whilst steering his boat. Date: 1894
Lady Changes WheelA lady driver changes a wheel, dismayed at what it may do to her dress and hoping some chivalrous gent may come along... Date: 1930
SHAVING OLD & NEW C1830 SHAVING OLD & NEW C1830The old way and the new way of shaving: take your pick! Date: circa 1830
WATER MILL / PYNETwo men by the side of a grand watermill wheel Date: 1805
DONKEY-POWERED MILLA Roman donkey-driven Asinus or Jumentarioe Mill. Date: Ancient Rome
THRESHING WITH HORSESHorses turn the wheel of a simple threshing machine Date: 1882
USING POTTERS WHEELUsing the potters wheel - the beginnings of a tall pot. Date: 1965
PEDOMETER / PERAMBULATORA Perambulator or pedometer. Date: 1797
WATER WHEEL MECHANISMSDiagrams to show how different designs of water wheel work Date: 1819
MILL WHEEL AT DUNSTERThe wheel of the water mill at Dunster, Somerset Date: 1954
KIDS PULLING ORANGE BOXA boy and his sister wheel their younger siblings about the streets in a wheelbarrow-like contraption they have made from an orange box and some pram wheels. Date: late 19th century
American one-wheel carriage 1886In this curious which was invented for trotting matches in the United States, in the single wheel runs within an oblong frame to which the axle-boxes are fixed
CONCEPTS / LIFEThe Egyptian ram-god Khnum is the creator of life, which he forms from clay on his potters wheel, while Thoth measures the span of the persons life
RELIGION / EGYPT / KHNUMThe ram-god KHNUM is the creator of life, which he does on his potters wheel, while Thoth measures the span of the persons life
ABBEVILLE STREET SCENEThe rue du Puit-a-la-Chaine at Abbeville, France, where the uneven pave seem to have caused a coach to lose a wheel outside one of the shops that line the street Date: 1821
FRANCE / ABBEVILLERue du Puit-a-la-Chaine, where a coach seems to have suffered an accident, losing a wheel on the rough paving Date: 1821
ANTISS SPINNING WHEELAntisss improved spinning wheel Date: 1797