Science And Technology Collection (#6)

Kinematograph Camera
July 1912: The Kinematograph Camera, capable of filming in colour, seen on a roof top. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flying Failure
19th September 1911: An armoured plane with cantilever wings and a Leon Levavasseur designed Antoinette engine which proved too heavy to fly more than a few yards

High Power Pumps
15th March 1913: Four of the huge pumps at a new reservoir in Chingford, Essex, which was opened by King Edward VII. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Signal Failure
1950: A short-lived device for signalling with electricity, used briefly in the early days of the railways in Britain. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bellamy Plane
18th June 1908: Bellamys aeroplane at trials in Petersham Meadows showing a front view of the propellers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands Plane
20th September 1910: McFie bi-plane at Brooklands Aviation meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Antoinette XIII
1st September 1909: Lathams Antoinette Mark XIII in flight in September 1909 during the unsuccessful cross Channel attempt. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fallen Poles
circa 1926: Telegraph poles which were ripped down during a tornado. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wireless Telegraphy
December 1910: Wire attached to the Tower of the Law Courts, to demonstrate wireless telegraphy during the case of Marconi versus Bush Radio Telegraph Company

Tin Man
September 1928: A tin man robot which speaks, answers questions and shares hands when told to. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Coupling Device
July 1910: The vacuum break coupling device on a LNWR (London and North Western Railways) slip coach. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cultivator
6th October 1932: The Cultivator, an invention by Mr Fishleigh, demonstrates its ability to remove weeds and prepare the soil for sowing at the Duke of Connaughts Estate at Bagshot, Surrey

Farman Biplane
October 1909: Louis Paulman flying a Farman biplane at Blackpool. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Timer
January 1909: A British police constable inspecting an electric timing device for motor cars. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

RAC Dust Trials
1st July 1908: A racing car with anti-dust devices at the RAC Dust Trials at Brooklands race-track. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hemispherical
Circa 1580, A Hemispherical, made by Hyeroimus Vulperica, in 1580, part of a complete collection of 16th century astronomical

Hemispherical
Circa 1580, A Hemispherical, made by Hyeroimus Vulperica, in 1580, part of a complete collection of 16th century astronomical

Telegraphy Worker
A man in Britain receives a telegraph message from India, January 1909. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Canal Crisis
Workers on the Panama Canal project deal with a landslide. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mind Machine
A woman whose head is attached to a machine which resembles a large hairdryer, but is in fact a Lavery Electric Automatic Phrenometer, for measuring brain activity

Alexander Bell
Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell ( 1847 - 1922 ) who invented the telephone. Bell, born in Edinburgh, worked with his father, Scottish educator Alexander Melville Bell

Snow Vehicle
A vehicle invented by George McLaughlin which was designed to travel on ice and snow. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hello Girls
Female operators at the switchboard of the Magneto Exchange of the National Telephone Company, USA. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A Steam Shovel
A steam shovel at work in the Bas Obispo Cut of the Panama Canal. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Head For Heights
May 1919: Mr Post repairing the 450ft mast at Marconis transmitting station in Chelmsford.Marconi Wireless Telegraph Works, Chelmsford, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Burney
15th September 1930: The Burney, a new streamlined car designed by Sir Denniston Burney who was responsible for the design of the R 100 (R100) airship. The engine is in the rear

Monorail
May 1907: A demonstration of a model of the Brennan Mono Rail. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Replica Of Rocket
21st April 1913: A replica of the steam locomotive Stephensons Rocket, designed by English railway engineer Robert Stephenson, on display at Crewe for a visit by King George V and Queen Mary

Graham Bell
circa 1910: Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) a Scots-born American inventor who established the Bell Telephone Company

Edinburgh
September 1952: Edinburgh looking north west from the Nelson Monument with the Royal Observatory in the foreground on Calton Hill

Hoover Tunes In
circa 1928: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964), Republican Party candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America, listening to a one valve radio set

Telegraph Cable
1926: A team of eight horses pulling the telegraph cable which arrived at Lands End, Cornwall, after being laid 4, 000 miles across the Atlantic. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Elettra At Sea
1920: The Marconi ship Elettra at sea. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Frank Whittle
10th January 1944: English engineer and inventor of the jet plane Sir Frank Whittle (1907 - 1996). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ernest Rutherford
1925: British physicist and 1st Baron, Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), at the time he was President of the British Association. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Early Aircraft
1910: A crowd gathered around an aircraft at Claude Grahame-Whites passenger flights event at Ranleagh. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Electrical Exhibition
7th October 1908: An electric iron, kettle, curling tongs and shaving pot on display at The Electrical Exhibition, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Barton Airship
1906: Doctor Bartons airship tethered in Alexandra Park, north London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wrights Biplane
29th March 1910: Alex Ogilvies Wright biplane at Camber Sands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Telescopic Gangway
31st July 1950: The Worlds first powered telescopic gangway connected to the Queen Elizabeth ocean liner at Southampton Docks. (Photo by Harrison /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Phone Box
15th March 1928: A telephone box outside 67A Farringdon Street, London. (Photo by King/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Single Or Double
November 1915: A van with a collapsible top section which converts the vehicle into a double decker. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Checking Pollution
19th February 1980: Two men in protective clothing check for oil and gas pollution on the beach at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. (Photo by Mike Lawn/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Arsenic Test
Two scientists, testing for arsenic and chemical pollution during their routine pollution patrol, Ventnor beach, Isle of Wight

Electronic Brain
A woman examines the readout from an electronic brain

Sashalite System
circa 1930: A hand operating the Sashalite system, an early type of flashbulb invented by British photographer Alex Sasha Stewart. A reflector spreads the light produced by the bulb

Artificial Sun
17th April 1942: Civil Defence Workers in Finsbury are beating the winter pallor with free sun lamp treatments. They call it Mixray at the Finsbury Health Centre

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