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Machinery Collection (#10)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Bi-Plane Parts

Bi-Plane Parts
March 1916: The mechanical workings and propeller of a bi-plane at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Plane Parts

Plane Parts
March 1916: The mechanical workings of a bi-plane at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Mind Machine

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

Background imageMachinery Collection: Flapping Machine

Flapping Machine
The Bartlett flapping machine on display at Olympia. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Rail Cleaning Van

Rail Cleaning Van
The interior of a London South Western Railway cleaning carriage, with an industrial vacuum cleaner. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: A Steam Shovel

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

Background imageMachinery Collection: Threshing Machine

Threshing Machine
September 1907: Farm workers grinding and threshing by motor at the Dennis Brothers Farm in Kirton, Lincolnshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Clothes Mill

Clothes Mill
1909: Interior of the sewing department of Frankenburys Factory in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Manchester Mill

Manchester Mill
1909: Joness Mill in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Ice Manufacturing

Ice Manufacturing
26th March 1907: The compressor inside the engine room of an ice factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Heavy Work

Heavy Work
May 1918: A steamroller at work outside a church. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Factory Fodder

Factory Fodder
1st July 1909: Two youths operate the factory machines involved in the blowing process, at the High Grade Hatters Sutton & Torkington Ltd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Road Spraying

Road Spraying
May 1908: A tar spraying machine surfacing a road. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Channel Tunnel

Channel Tunnel
February 1907: The site in Dover, beneath the chalk cliffs, where the shaft was sunk for the original Channel Tunnel scheme, which received renewed interest in 1907

Background imageMachinery Collection: Signal Box Scene

Signal Box Scene
26th October 1907: A signalman operating a signal. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Jones Mill

Jones Mill
circa 1909: The interior of Jones Cotton Mill in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Cotton Mill

Cotton Mill
circa 1909: The harnessing process at Jones Cotton Mill, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: St Mihiel

St Mihiel
13th September 1918: American soldiers, of the 18th Infantry Machine Gun Battalion, advance through the ruins of St Baussant, France, on their way to the St. Mihiel Front

Background imageMachinery Collection: Welsh Coal Mine

Welsh Coal Mine
December 1910: Steam billowing out of the coal mine at Bargoed near Cardiff. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Gold Chain Making

Gold Chain Making
circa 1909: Girls working in a section of the polishing room, making gold chain at Goods & Sons Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Bathing Hut Attendant

Bathing Hut Attendant
August 1909: The bathing machine attendant returns from the sea with a pail full of water to wash the sand from the bathers feet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Camber Sands Launch

Camber Sands Launch
29th March 1910: Alex Ogilvies Wright flying machine perched on a slope ready for the launch at Camber Sands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Harvest By Motor

Harvest By Motor
1st September 1907: Workers using a motorized tractor take a load back to the rick during the harvest. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Motorized Plough

Motorized Plough
1st September 1907: Workers using a plough pulled by motor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Harvest Machine

Harvest Machine
1st September 1907: A motorized reaper turning a corner during the harvest. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Reaping Machine

Reaping Machine
1926: The latest sugar cane reaping machine, built in Germany. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Cotton

Cotton
circa 1909: Jones Cotton Mill, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Dockside

Dockside
September 1907: Construction work under way on the new docks at Avonmouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Coaling Station

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)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Power Wheel

Power Wheel
circa 1900: Actual power wheel used by railways engineer George Stephenson to drive a lathe at Killingworth Colliery, Northumberland. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Boiler Shop

Boiler Shop
24th February 1907: The boiler manufacturing area of Yarrow torpedo factory, Poplar, East London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Making Buttons

Making Buttons
circa 1909: Workers in a Birmingham button factory packaging the finished product. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Button Factory

Button Factory
circa 1909: Hundreds of workers punching buttons out of sheet metal in a Birmingham factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Ice Lifting

Ice Lifting
25th June 1907: Slabs of ice being winched through a trap door in an ice manufacturing plant. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Kingsway Construction

Kingsway Construction
circa 1906: Construction workers laying the foundations of Kingsway, central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Torpedo Works

Torpedo Works
24th February 1907: The fitting shop of Yarrow torpedo works, Poplar, East London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Engineering Works

Engineering Works
circa 1909: Men at work in busy factory shop-floor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Linophone Operators

Linophone Operators
1907: Workers setting up type with Linophones which are a combination of phonograph and linotype machinery. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Production Line

Production Line
1909: Workers cutting buttons in a factory in Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Fighter Factory

Fighter Factory
9th January 1930: Factory at Filton, Gloucester where Bristol Bulldog all-steel fighting machines are being constructed for Australia. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Bulldog Jupiter

Bulldog Jupiter
9th January 1930: Mechanics at the Bristol Aeroplane Company works in Filton, Gloucester, adjusting a Bristol Jupiter engine during the manufacture of a Bristol Bulldog aircraft. (Photo by Edward G)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Woman Driver

Woman Driver
8th March 1917: A woman driving a steam plough at Cambridge University Farm in WW I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Using Wasteland

Using Wasteland
5th January 1917: Wasteland at Harrow which is to be used by the Food From Waste Ground movement. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageMachinery Collection: Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

Background imageMachinery Collection: Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

Background imageMachinery Collection: Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

Background imageMachinery Collection: Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

Background imageMachinery Collection: Water cistern in pergamon

Water cistern in pergamon
Cylindrical water cistern in the ancient city of pergamon, a unesco World heritage sight.the stone coloumn in the middle is a base for a mechanism to rotate water



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