Wheel Collection (page 8)

Model B-2 Pole Trailer Construction Features -- rack body, eccentric pole binder, drop forged upset axle, chain tightener. Date: early 1920s

Model B-2 Pole Trailer, adaptable for Fords and Chevrolets, can be used for hauling one or more poles. Date: early 1920s

Model M or H Pole Trailers and accessories -- when the entire load is to be carried on the trailer. Designed by American Telephone & Telegraph Companys engineers. Date: early 1920s

Model S-2 Pole Trailer and accessories -- when one half of the load is to be carried on the motor truck. Date: early 1920s

Three Type D Cable Reel Trailers, designed by American Telephone and Telegraph Companys engineers. Loading reel onto trailer, pulling loaded trailer with motor truck

Highway Pole Trailers move long loads, quickest and cheapest. For poles, girders, timber, and cargo of long dimensions. Capacity one ton to five tons. Date: early 1920s

Combination Pole and Cable Reel Trailer, two trailers for the price of one, equipped for hauling cable reels, equipped for hauling poles. With specifications below. Date: early 1920s

Five Type D Cable Reel Trailers in actual service. Date: early 1920s

James Watt, Scottish engineer, at work on the steam engine. Date: circa 1760s

Detail of St Catherine, by Pellegrino Tibaldi
Detail of St Catherine, from a painting by Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527-1596), Italian Mannerist artist, sculptor and architect. Date: 16th century

Combing wheel in a Glasgow carpet factory, operated by a woman and two children. Date: 1843

Scene at Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester
Scene at the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester -- a potters wheel, with a thrower, ball maker and wheel turner at work. 1843

View inside a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
View inside the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London -- a workman operates a strand-registering machine. Date: 1842

Chinese potters making and firing porcelain cups and plates
Chinese potter making a porcelain cup on a potters wheel driven by a laborer, while another worker arranges cups on a tray 1, and a potter firing porcelain plates in an open oven 2

Sporting brooches mounted in diamonds: pug dog, frog, wheel, polo pony, locust, etc. Chromolithograph from Edwin Streeters Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895

Balancing acts, 14th century
Girl balancing swords while held on a board by two men, 14th century (top), man balancing a lance on his nose, a sword on his finger, a wheel on his shoulder

Plans and views of lock gates in operation on canals, 18th century, England. Copperplate engraving by Mutlow from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813

Blade mill with grindstones designed by John Smeaton
View, plan and elevation of a blade mill with grindstones designed by John Smeaton. Copperplate engraving by Mutlow from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813

German cup made out of a nautilus shell decorated with gilded silver nautical ornaments, mid 16th century. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

Lapp in a sleigh pulled by a reindeer on a frozen river. In the background, a man rides a strange contraption with skis and rudder with wheel

Chinese games and acrobatics performed in Yuanmingyuang Park, Peking. Eight costumed women ride Ferris wheels perpedicularly, while male acrobats spin on rope wheels

Types of hydraulics systems and pumps: Persian wheel or sakia, Tantalus or Pythagorean cup, Ctesibiuss ancient pump, and sucking, forcing, lifting and chain pumps

Thirty-hour clock with a larum and count wheel striking work. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

Cotton spinner and mantua maker, Qing Dynasty China. Woman spinning thread on a spinning wheel, and itinerant clothes maker with her tools in a basket

Chinese potter throwing a porcelain cup on a potters wheel, powered by an assistant. Another worker arranges cups on a board for the oven

Potter making a clay vessel on a wheel driven by a labourer turning a crank. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Wheelwright hammering a metal cover onto a wooden wheel in a yard. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Woman spinning yarn on a spinning wheel in front of a cottage. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Rope maker twisting rope yarns together on a rope walk while an apprentice turns a wheel to revolve the hook. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

A metal worker using a wire-drawing machine to make thin wire. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Wheel cutting at a clock factory, Moore and Co, London 1842
Wheel cutting at a clock factory, Moore and Co, Clerkenwell Close, London. 1842

The Evolution of the Cycle -- tricycle and two bicycles
The Evolution of the Cycle -- the first crank-driven tricycle, Dalzells Machine (circa 1840), Landiss Machine (1861). (4 of 8) Date: 1892

The Evolution of the Cycle -- three cycling machines
The Evolution of the Cycle -- Bramley and Parkers Machine (1830), Juliens Machine (1830), Cochranes Machine (1831). (3 of 8) Date: 1892

The Evolution of the Cycle -- Dandy-Horse
The Evolution of the Cycle -- Duke of Marlboroughs Dandy-Horse, Johnsons Dandy-Horse, Cruikshank drawing At Full Speed ( all early 1800s). (2 of 8) Date: 1892

The Evolution of the Cycle -- Ovenden and Bolton
The Evolution of the Cycle -- Ovendens Machine (1761) and Boltons Machine (1804). (1 of 8) Date: 1892

Unicyclist at start of a cycle ride, Lands End, Cornwall
A unicyclist (left) at the start of a cycle ride from Lands End in Cornwall to John o Groats in Scotland. Date: circa 1980s

Pleasure Fair, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire

Driver and two passengers in an Ekka, Delhi, India
Driver and two passengers in an Ekka (small horse-drawn carriage), Delhi, India. Date: circa 1910

Experiences on an Ordinary Penny Farthing Cycle. 1892

New steam carriage by Montais and L Heritier 1887
New steam carriage by Montais and L Heritier. Date: 1887

Steam carriage, Palmer system 1886
Steam carriage, Palmer system. Date: 1886

Aboard the Morning Star yacht at Cowes, Isle of Wight - the Pageant of the Century. 1911

The Finishing Room, Black & White magazine. 1893

Military artillery. 1868

Cries of Paris - scissor sharpener

Bob Burnam in Ohio Racer
Bob Burnam, crowned Speed King of the World, in his Ohio Racer. 1912

People with Wheel of Fortune, Nevada, USA
People with a Wheel of Fortune at a gambling club in Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Matchbook, Hotel El Rancho, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- stop at the sign of the windmill. Date: early 1940s

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