Equipment Collection (page 20)

Flu Epidemic
A man sprays the inside of a bus of the London General Omnibus Co with anti-flu preparation during the flu epidemic which followed the First World War, London, 2nd March 1920. (Photo by H. F)

Mending Saddles
circa 1901: British soldiers make good cavalry equipment during a lull in the South African campaign during the second Boer War. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Coaling Station
29th August 1907: Setting up the new belting system at the coaling station at Grimbsy docks. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Soldier Height
July 1907: Measuring new recruits at St Georges Barracks, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Zeppelin Skeleton
February 1919: The framework of a Zeppelin airship, being built at the Short Brothers Works. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bowling Dog
22nd August 1938: Hector, Wimbledon Bowling Clubs mascot, gets involved during the Women Bowlers National Championships at Wimbledon Park, London

Inflating A Football
May 1923: Inflating a football with a pump. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Revelling Pups
4th February 1926: Music lovers partner up for their favourite dance programme on the wireless. (Photo by M. Fresco/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Signal School
The interior of a signal box at the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) signal school at Wimbledon, July 1921. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Winning Post
22nd March 1920: A man painting the winning post for the Grand National at Aintree race course. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Artists At Work
Two artists painting on the beach. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Fire At Flixborough
1st June 1974: A view of the Nypro plant at Flixborough after the fire on 1st June 1974 where explosions within the plant killed several workers. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

London Bridge Station
8th November 1971: An employee in a control room at London Bridge Station, London. (Photo by John Minihan/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Olympic Gymnastics
circa 1908: Gymnasts performing on the rings at the 1908 London Olympics. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Power shovel
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Power shovel with jaws open, view from below. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

The American National Game of Baseball
Photograph of a Currier & Ives lithograph titled The American National Game of Baseball shows an early baseball game watched by a crowd of well-dressed people, 1866. (Photo by R. Gates/Getty Images)

Hell Gate Bridge In Queens Under Construction
The Hell Gate Bridge over a part of the East River called Hell Gate, which separates Astoria, Queens, from Wards Island, is seen under construction, New York, mid 1910s

Good Wood Madam
8th July 1939: A lawn bowler raises her hands in satisfaction at a throw. Original Publication: Picture Post - 175 - Good Wood, Madam - pub. 1939 (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Goal Scoring Machine
1st December 1951: Arthur Milton of Arsenal aims a shot at a novel goal-scoring machine during a training session. Milton also plays cricket for Gloucestershire

No Lift
February 1955: Two skiers make their way up a marked trail on the ski slopes at Klosters in Switzerland. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7524 - Trials Of A Photographer - pub. 1955 (Photo by H)

Transit Circle
circa 1885: Observing the sun with the transit circle at Greenwich Observatory. Original Publication: The Graphic 1885 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wooden Switchboard
A man in overalls sits in front of a tall wood-panelled switchboard, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Roman Medicine
An array of ancient Roman surgical instruments, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Alchemist At Work
A woodcut, depicting an alchemist at work, from The Books of Alchemy of the Most Ingenious Arabian Philosopher, Geber, published in Berne, 1545. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Raising The Liberty Pole In New York
Artists depiction of several incidents of the American Revolutionary period in New York City, late 18th Century. In the center foreground the Sons of Liberty anti-tax guerillas raise a Liberty Pole

Woman At A Typewriter
Portrait of a young woman typing on an early typewriter, circa 1872. The keyboard layout had been invented a few years earlier by Christopher Scholes. The caption reads (undeciphered) Scholes 1872

Telegraph Operator
A trainee wireless telegraph operator at Marconi House, London, 18th March 1913. The 5 kilowatt apparatus is similar to that used on ocean-going liners

Roman Medicine
An array of ancient Roman surgical instruments discovered at Pompeii, on display at Naples Museum, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Roman Medicine
An array of ancient Roman surgical instruments at the British Museum, circa 1910. Originating from all over the Roman Empire, the collection includes a surgical saw, artery forceps

Trepanation
The illustrated process of a trepanning operation, circa 1600. A flap of scalp is cut away and a trephine is used to drill a hole in the patients skull. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Trepanation
A medieval surgeon performs a trepanning operation on a patients skull, circa 1350. An illustration from Social England Vol II, p.119. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hollerith Sorting Machine
A Hollerith sorting machine invented by German inventor Dr Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) who devised a mechanical system for recording, circa 1930

Dynamometers, wood engravings, published in 1880
Historical Dynamometers from the 19th century by Rieger and Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (French Inventor and engineer, 1816 - 1889)

Beach Belles
Two fashionable ladies and a young girl playing croquet on a beach. Original Artwork: A engraving from the Journal des Demoiselles. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Phosphoroscope (1857) by Becquerel, wood engraving, published in 1880
Phosphoroscope by Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (French physicist, 1820 - 1891). A phosphoroscope is piece of experimental equipment

A Little Nuisance
A young passer-by disturbs a courting couple. The caption reads The fat boy awoke on this occasion only. Original Artwork

Steam heating boiler, wood engraving, published in 1880
Steam heating boiler for a heating system in home with two boiling tubes, cross section: A) floater with alarm whistle; B) boiling tube; C) hull of the boiler; E) water supply pipe; F

Lining Up A Shot
circa 1850: Two gentlemen and two ladies play a friendly game of billiards in William Duftons private drawing room. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Teeing-Off
1862: A couple of golfers teeing-off whilst their caddy boys wait behind. Original Artwork: Engraving by C A Doyle London Society Vol IV (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pistol
illustration was published in 1895 catalogue of different goods

Artificial Lightning
19th January 1951: An artificial lightning generator at Queen Mary College, London. (Photo by Norman Vigars/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Portable Turntable
21st May 1958: The Philips portable record player for 45 rpm single records. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Suffragette Art Kensington, March 1913
7th March 1913: A suffragette adding to messages written by others on a pavement in Kensington. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

US Landing
14th September 1943: LST boats are loaded with troops and equipment as the US prepares to invade the docks of Palermo, Sicily, Italy

FA Cup Fans
28th April 1923: A massive crowd is forced onto the pitch by sheer weight of numbers at the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United

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