Device Collection (page 18)

S. F. Cody and War Kite
Samuel Franklin Cody, British- American aviator and inventor of the famous war kite, an early type of aeroplane and communication device

Very Hot! by William Heath Robinson
The wonderful Heath Robinson New Patent Thawing Machine. This stupendous invention has been specially designed to enable the pedestrian to walk with confidence on the most slippery roads

A Marker of Mark on The Market
A new labour saving lawn marker which is the sensation of the lawn tennis world. Requiring only two people to operate it, there is no doubt that it will soon be found in every up to date

Lumiere Cinematograph
LUMIEREs CINEMATOGRAPH : a contemporary depiction of the French device which has the best claim to be the worlds first practical film projector

Football Blocks Ad
Football Blocks A device to protect a footballers shins. Supplied in five sizes

Perpetual motion: A garden fountain worked by water from upper cistern which is filled with water from an Archimedian screw

Divers building a pier or jetty wearing John Bethells patent diving dresses. Day & Haghe Lithographers to the Queen. S. Bendixen Lith. 1838

Divers boring and blasting rocks wearing John Bethells patent diving dresses. Day & Haghe Lithographers to the Queen. S. Bendixen Lith. Date: 1838

Bethells driving dress
Men working on a Wreck wearing John Bethells Patent Diving Dress Patent. Day & Haghe Lithographers to the Queen. S. Bendixen Lith. Date: 1838

Kicking the bucket to keep alive and well! 1914
Interestingly this artical was published on April fools day in The Sketch, 1914, you can come to your own conclusions! Latest primitive life-saving device invented by a German engineer

A Cats-Eye, device for helping drivers at night. Date: 1970s

Shadoof (Chadouf) at the Nile river, Egypt. The shadoof is a traditional irrigation tool to easily lift water by hand from a water source to a higher level

University Exerciser and Reducer advertisement
Advertisement for the University Exerciser and Reducer to eliminate that tired feeling from your life and step out into a new world of joyful energy

Device for catching salmon, Sognefjord, Norway
Device for catching salmon at Balhomen, Sognefjord, Norway. Nets are spread in the water in a horseshoe shape; when a salmon enters, the man waiting at the top pulls a rope and closes the opening

Advert for D. H Wilsons deafness 1902
Wilsons common-sense ear-drums, deafness and head noises relieved. 1902

The Safety of Londons Underground and Tube Railways
Automatic devices for preventing accidents: the safety of Londons Underground and Tube Railways. How the element of danger from human error or illness is eliminated by mechanical means

Egypt, Africa - A Sakia, used for irrigation. Date: 1910s

Fantastic Adventures - War of the Giant Apes by Alexander Blade. A giant ape uses a boulder to attack a truck with a scared man in it

Startling Stories - Speak of the Devil by Norman A. Daniels. A figure of Satan looms over a man and a woman. The satanic creature possesses the man by holding a device over his head

Ancient radio receiver. Brand Invicta

Ancient Lightning Rod. Colored engraving
Ancient Lightning Rod with a long iron rod. It was invented in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Colored engraving

Magnetoelectric Machine by E. M. Clarke. 19th century. Color
Magnetoelectric Machine by E. M. Clarke. 19th century. Induction machine that amplifies induction currents. These devices are called electrovoltaicos induction apparatus. Colored engraving

Quadrant telegraph by Breguet
Quadrant telegraph by Louis Francois Clement Breguet (1804-1883). Nineteenth century colored engraving

Catapult and ammunition. Castel Sant Angelo. Rome
Italy. Rome. Catapult and ammunition. Castel Sant Angelo

Medieval History. 15th century. Study of a flying machine used in sieges. Chantilly Castle. France

Astrolabe of 1566. Netherlands

Eighteenth century. Farmer with a seed drill. Colored engraving

Paris Universal Exhibition (1878). Installation by J. Herman
Paris Universal Exhibition (1878) held at the Trocadero. Installation by J. Hermann Lachapelle, Continuous equipment maker for the production of soft drinks

Charles Balloon Lands
The unmanned gas-filled balloon flies from the Champ de Mars, Paris, to Gonzesse, where it is attacked by peasants who know a device of the Devil when they see one. Date: 27 August 1783

De Groofs Fatal Crash
DE GROOFs device is launched from a balloon over Cremorne Gardens, London. Unfortunately, something goes terribly wrong, and he plunges fatally to the ground. Date: 9 July 1874

Air-Sea Kite Device
A combination of raft and kite, this device should be able to take you anywhere so long as theres a wind and that its blowing in the direction you want to go. Date: circa 1890

Advert for J. W Rowe & Co. electrical massage apparatus 1902
Heath in every home! by using Rogers consoidated electrical massage and medical apparatus. Claims to cures lots of alliaments. 1902

William Brassey
WILLIAM BRASSEY Son of the railway engineer Thomas Brassey Date: -

Electrical gold finder
Experiments with an electrical device to find gold underground. Date: 1892

Reynaud Projecting Zootrope
Reynauds Projecting Zootrope, a very sophisticated device, but also, doomed to be made obsolete by the praxinoscope and even more so by the first cinematograph projects. Date: 1890

Crests of some early Archbishops of Canterbury
Crests of early Archbishops of Canterbury - (from top left): Thomas Becket (circa 1119 1170), Henry Chichele (also Checheley) (circa 13641443), John de Stratford (circa 1275-1348)

Children looking into a peep box device, c.1810. Date: C.1810

Loose page from a scrapbook of crests and heraldry
Loose page from a former scrapbook of crests and heraldry featuring family crests, coats of arms and many devices, shields, monograms and mottos! Date: late 19th century

The Duke of Edinburgh at the Road Research Laboratory
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, examining the motor-cycle combination fitted with devices for recording aspects of road surfaces, when he toured the Road Research laboratory in Harmondsworth

Book Plate - Chelsea Public Library
Book Plate - Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea Public Library - The True university of these days is a collection of books. Date: 1903

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Crackers dog show inventions (with the authors apologies to Heath Robinson). Smoothing the Scotch Collie, Pampering the Pom, and Improving the Kerry Blues Beard

Water works, machines for raising water, 19th century.. Water works, machines for raising water, water bellows, Chremnitz fountain, and Mr John Whitehursts device. Copperplate engraving by W

Unknown Device, England. Date: 1900s

Unmanned boat steered by light, war device
An unmanned boat steered by light: a 25, 000 war device. Tested during the First World War before Lord Fisher and Mr Balfour on Penn Pond in Richmond Park

Rome, Italy - The Mammertine Prison
Black and white. Low-ceilinged room with a carving and mantlepiece to one side. There is a hole in the floor with a low ridge around it (possibly a well or some kind of drainage device?)

Serving warmed beer, Berlin, Germany
A bartender serving a customer with a warmed glass of beer, using a new electrical device, in Berlin, Germany. Date: circa 1930

Suffragette Flora Drummond Stanhope Toy
A Stanhope or optical toy, a device which allows the viewing of microphotographs without using a microscope. The stanhope was invented in 1857 by Rene Dagron, a French photographer

The town hall carillon of Levallois-Perret, 1898
The town hall carillon of Levallois-Perret, Paris. Date: 1898

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