Diagram Collection

Technical diagram of a flying machine, with measurements and annotations. The small red circle labelled C is the pilots seat. late 18th century

Technical diagram of a flying machine, with pilot
Technical diagram of a flying machine, with measurements and annotations, and a pilot seated at the controls. circa late 18th century

Imperial Airways Poster, four types of plane
Imperial Airways Poster, showing four types of plane, with cutaway drawings of interiors of each class -- Heracles and Hannibal, Scylla, Atalanta, and Scipio. 20th century

The Great Aerial Navigator, or Atmospheric Machine! An article with a detailed diagram showing an aerial machine claimed to be capable of transportation to India and China in the space of five days

Imperial Airways Poster, seaplane Scipio
Imperial Airways Poster, showing a diagrammatic drawing of the seaplane Scipio, one of the new Kent class, for use on the trans-Mediterranean service. 1931

Early flying machine design
An early flying machine design, showing a man standing in a winged assembly similar to a paraglider. Designed by Jacob Degen, Vienna, 1807, with measurements given below. 1807

Tank manoeuvres controlled by radio-telephony by G. H. Davis
Annotated illustration showing a company-commander broadcasting his orders to his section-commanders by wireless. The tank in the foreground is seen cut away diagrammatically to show the driver

Advertisement for General Motors six new cars -- the Fleets in! With a woman saluting to two men in uniform, and a diagram below to illustrate the use of steel. 1937

School for Butlers
Trainee butlers take notes as their teacher points to a blackboard diagram, explaining the correct way to carve lamb. Date: early 1930s

Poster showing details of the ME109 Messerschmitt
English poster showing details of the ME109 German Messerschmitt fighter plane, used during the Second World War. Date: 1939 - 1945

Tin Model of a Bluebird

Marabou Storks - diagram
Marabou Storks (Leptoptilos crumeniferus) - diagram 1949

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