Wheel Collection (page 12)

MV Britannic - chrome mantel clock in stylised shape of a ship's wheel, engraved MV Britannic. 3.5 inches. Date: 1930s

Edwardian 1900s Two Couple Sitting Passenger
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Christmas card in the shape of a car wheel. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1900s

Country farming scene on a Christmas card with an ornate gold border. Date: circa 1900s

Driver and passengers in a car on a cutout Valentine card
Driver in a car on a cutout Valentine card, with two passengers at the back. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1900s

Driver in a car on a cutout Valentine card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1900s

Bicycle covered in flowers on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Wheelbarrow and tools on a cutout greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Japanese geisha in rickshaw on a greetings card
Japanese geisha with parasol, riding in a rickshaw on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Handmade Christmas card with mill wheel
Handmade Christmas and New Year card with a mill wheel which turns to reveal a seasonal greeting. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Kazakh yurt on a wheeled platform. 20th century

Drawing by Harold Auerbach, waterwheel and stream
Pen and ink drawing by Harold Auerbach, waterwheel and stream. Date: circa 1910

Old English Sheepdog turned into wool, Cornwall
An Old English Sheepdog with its enterprising owners, who spin its longhaired coat into balls of wool for knitting, at home in Mullion, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Carpet Weavers at work. Date: 1911

Norias at Orontes River in Hama, Syria
Two norias on opposite banks of the Orontes River in Hama, a city in west Syria. Norias are devices similar to water wheels which were used to lift water to a higher elevation

Noria at Orontes River in Hama, Syria
One of the Norias of Hama, a city in west Syria, as seen through a stone arch at the bank of the Orontes River. Norias are

Street next to one of the Norias of Hama, Syria
Man walking on a street in Hama, a city in west Syria. On the left one of the Norias of Hama along the Orontes River can be seen

Yangtzepoo Road, Shanghai, China
Yangtzepoo (Yang-shu-p u, Yangpu) Road, Shanghai, China - note the one-wheeled Chinese wheelbarrows and rickshaw. Date: circa 1910s

John Moore & Sons Clock Factory -- Chiming Machine (above) and Plan of the Turret Clock proposed for the Royal Exchange. 1852

Hama, Syria, Bridge over Orontes River and Giant Waterwheels
Hama, 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

Man& woman on a 1920 New Gerrard motorcycle & sidecar
Young man and young lady on a 1920 New Gerrard motorcycle & sidecar combination at the seaside circa 1920

Block Wheel Car - a side view of a man and horse and block wheel cart on a road. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Horse-drawn tram on a Victorian scrap, advertising Raphael Tuck & Sons Artistic Cards. Date: circa 1890s

Wheel of Fortune. Miniature, 15th century. France
Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortuane. Concept in medieval and anceint philosophy referring to the capricious nature of Fate. Miniature, 15th century. France

Roman mosaic of the Circus of Barcelona depicting a quadriga with the name of the horses and charioteers. Probably 4th century AD. Archaeological Museum of Catalonia. Spain

Travelling Steam Lokomobile Maschinenfabrik Rudolf Wolf, Magdeburg-Buckau, 1862. This first locomobile of the Wolf company was used to drive threshing machines

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

Lions hunt relief. Sakcegozu Palace. Hitite. 750 BC
Relief depicting a lions hunt. 750 BC. Basalt. Detail. From the Palace of Sakcegozu, Anatolia. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Syria. Hama. Noria in the Orontes river next to the aqueduct
Syrian. The Norias of Bechriyyat in Hama. The waterwheels at Hama, known as Norias, are up to 20m high and have been standing since the 13th century. Middle East

Mycenaean art. Greece. Funerary stele in stone. Relief depicting a lion chasing a deer. From the tomb V of Circle A at Mycenae. Dated in 16th century B.C. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Greek art. Greece. Terracotta neck amphora. 7th century BC. Proto-Attic Period. It represents Herakles grabbing the hair of the centaur Nessus. Behind Herakles, a four-horse chariot and a driver

Luxor Temple. Battle of Kadesh. Relief. Detail. Egypt
Relief depicting egyptian war chariots at the Battle of Kadesh. 13th century B.C. New Kingdom. First Pylon of the Temple of Luxor. Thebes. Egypt

Ceramic tondo. Hospital of the Innocents. Florence
Ceramic tondo by Andrea della Robbia, depicting a baby with swaddling clothes. Hospital of the Innocents, built by Brunelleschi. 15th century. Florence. Italy

Cartoon, Disraeli and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, Opening Parliament. Benjamin Disraeli wheels Queen Victoria to Westminster in her bathchair. 1880

London & North Western Railway engine, Charles Dickens
London & North Western Railway passenger engine, Charles Dickens (LNWR 955), built in 1882. It covered more than two million miles over twenty years on the London-Manchester service

The Wiener Riesenrad - Big Wheel in Vienna, Austria
A rara epostcard view of the Wiener Riesenrad (German for Viennese Giant Wheel), or Riesenrad is a Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt

17th Century Crane
A 17th century crane, timber construction : the wheel enables it to be turned, for instance when loading a vessel from a dock. Date: 1690

Advert for Oetzmann & Co. Victorian furniture 1880s
Victorian furniture, available from Oetzmann & Co, Hampstead, London. Circa 1880s

Gyroscopic Wheel Unicycle of E J Christie
A New Terror of the Road - the quite remarkable invention of Professor E. J. Christie of marion Ohio - a huge Gyroscopic Wheel Unicycle

Camel-powered water wheel in Morocco. Date: circa 1930

Advertisement for Poulton & Noel Ltd of London, luxury foods. Date: early 20th century

Vienna, Austria
A sharp-as-you-like photographic postcard of Vienna, Austria - the Donaukanal (" Danube Canal" ) and The Urania, a public educational institute and observatory

Testing teeth, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Testing artificial teeth in a modern tooth works, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C. Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library Date: 1947

Card shuffler, illustration by William Heath Robinson
The new card shuffler and mechanical dealer for bridge parties, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

King George V as a yachtsman at Cowes, Isle of Wight. Date: 1924

Eurasian Ruffe and Millers Thumb
Eurasian Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua, also known as Ruff, Jack Ruff, Ruffe and Pope), and Millers Thumb (Cottus gobio, also known as Freshwater Sculpin, European Bullhead)

Cottus gobio, or European Bullhead, a freshwater fish also known as Millers Thumb, Freshwater Sculpin, River Bullhead and Common Bullhead. Date: 1863

Theodor Osterkamp, German pilot and fighter ace
Theodor " Theo" Osterkamp (1892-1975), German pilot and highest scoring fighter ace with the Imperial Naval Air Service. Seen here sitting on the portside wheel of his Fokker EV 156/18

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