Wire Collection (page 12)

French infantry advancing in Woeuvre
French infantry advancing over shell-torn ground and broken barbed wire during the capture of Les Eparges, formerly in German hands and of strategic importance on the Woeuvre plain

Mine-sweeper
A pair of trawlers sweeping for mines in the North Sea with a weighted wire rope stretched between the craft

Making barbed wire entanglements
French soldiers at work on the Champagne front making barbed wire entanglements for French defences during World War I

Blondins Tightrope
The exact schematics of the tightrope assembled for a performance by the legendary tight-rope walker Charles Blondon (1824-1897) who crossed Niagara Falls in 1859

Balancing Bear / Rountree
A small bear walks precariously along a telegraph wire while balancing a red ball on his nose, thinking, I Wonder What It Is?

Hair transplant
Entitled, If the War Makes you Lose Your Wool - Try This, this illustration shows an early form of hair transplanting, championed by a Dr. Szekely of Budapest

Cartoon - Gas Protection
Every Cloud is Silver Lined The silver lining here is the new gas protection equipment used by British troops to combat the deadly gas attacks from German lines

Cross Country Cartoon
2nd Event - International Sports 1914- CROSS COUNTRY RACE. Which is the crossest country? - a sharp satire depicting a Britsh soldier chasing his German foe

Soldier in Barbed Wire
The Most Unkindest Cut of All - A British Tommy struggling to force his way through an entanglement of barbed wire, comes across the trophy of a German helmet

Manufacture of the Atlantic telegraph cable
Machines covering the Atlantic cable wire with gutta percha at the Gutta Percha Companys works in Wharf Road, London. Before the advent of man-made materials, gutta percha

A flying roundabout; Sir Hiram Maxims latest invention
Illustration of Sir Hiram Maxims latest invention, which may be described as a roundabout in which the revolving bodies are suspended in the air in cars that are attached by steel wire ropes

Registering the finish of a horse race by photograph
A photograph of how the finish of a horse race is photographed. In order to terminate any dispute about the winner in a race, the first horse breaks a tight wire operating the apparatus

Wire-Drawing
Drawing wire

Pictogram receiving apparatus
Three male operators in New York, at the receiving apparatus of a pictogram wire service, the first of its kind, to transmit images over telephone wires on May 19th, 1924, from Cleveland, Ohio

Kensington telephone exchange
The main wire distribution frame at Kensington telephone exchange shortly after it opened in 1902

First Anglo-French telephone
Illustration showing the completion of the first Anglo-French telephone with callers in London speaking to Paris. Insert picture no

A Workman above the average
A telephone operator suspended on a wire outside the Law Courts in London in 1909

Ngo Mon Gate / 1972
Through the barbed wire, a tank belonging to the occupying forces of the South Vietnamese military, is seen in front of the Ngo Mon Gate of the Thai-Hoa Palace

Canada Frazer River
The wire suspension bridge over the Frazer (or Fraser) river, British Columbia

Wwi / 1915 / Wire Cutting
In preparation for a raid on German trenches, a party of the 9th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, despite exposure by searchlights and Very lights, cut wire entaglements

Girl and Terrier
A girl squatting down beside a river, calling a wire-haired fox terrier towards her

Italian Offensive / 1936
A major air and land offensive by the Italians against the Ethiopians

Olympics / 1912 / Baseball
Baseball match between USA and Sweden

Night in a Shell Crater
Four British soldiers at a listening post in a shell crater in No Mans Land near Lagnicourt

German Infantry 1940
German infantry in action - checked by barbed wire

Man Writing in Ledger
A young man making an entry in a ledger with a fountain pen. He sits at a desk with a wire in-tray and stacks of card index drawers behind him

MENs COATS 1943
Two men off to catch a train wear coats in window pane check wool, trilby hats and trousers with turn-ups. One man carries his wire-haired fox terrier in a zip-up bag

DELIA MASONs HAT C1906
Delia Mason wears a hat composed of lace & gauze over a wire frame & trimmed with daisies. The brim is shaped into waves

Fur-Lined Overcoat 1907
Back view of an American fur- line & fur-trimmed overcoat with pocket flaps & back vent. The model poses against some bison who presumably obligingly supplied the fur?

Bain Chemical Telegraph
Bains chemical telegraph, exhibited at the Crystal Palace, London

Panning Alluvial Gold
A New Zealand gold miner in wading boots sifts through the alluvial gold he has panned

Industry / Soap 1830S
Cutting a block of soap into bars Date: 1830s

Aerial Acrobatics
Acrobats will turn into aerobats in the circus of tomorrow - high-wire acts will be more thrilling than ever !

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