Machine Collection

Fast order chef

Montgolfier balloon, built in the garden of Jean-Baptiste Reveillon, Rue de Montreuil, Faubourg St Antoine, Paris, funded by the Academie Royale des Sciences. Depicted here being filled by gas

Bus conductor

Bunny Cuddles

Flying machine or airship
A flying machine or airship, 18th century copy of the one designed in the 17th century by Francesco Lana de Terzi, the Italian Jesuit, mathematician, naturalist and aeronautics pioneer. circa 1670

Balloon ascent, Champ de Mars, Paris
Balloon ascent by Montgolfier, d Anonai and Vivarais from the Champ de Mars, Paris. 27 August 1783

Bus drivers and conductors
People You See. Bus drivers and conductors. From Teddy Bear (7 May 1966)

Hensons Aerial Steam Carriage
The Aerial Steam Carriage -- underside view with covering fabric in place. This flying machine was patented by William Samuel Henson (1812-1888) and John Stringfellow (1799-1883) in 1842. 1843

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

Tailor and dress maker
People You See. Tailor and dress maker. From Teddy Bear (30 November 1963)

Montgolfier balloon in flight over Lyons, France
General view of Lyons, France, taken from the top of the Faubourg de la Guillotiere, showing the Montgolfier balloon Le Flesselle in flight above the city. 19 January 1784

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

The Aerial Steam Carriage, or Ariel. An artists imaginary representation of a propeller-driven flying machine with wings. By Permission of the Patentees, this Engraving of The First Carriage

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

Satirical cartoon, Locomotion
Satirical cartoon: Locomotion. Walking by Steam. Riding by Steam. Flying by Steam. Showing two women riding a wheeled vehicle made of a large teapot

Man-powered flying machine
A man-powered flying machine in a countryside setting. The Aerostat - Worked by Manual Power - Invented by W. Miller, M.R.C.S. 1843

Imaginary view of a flying machine
Imaginary front view of a Vaisseau Volant (flying machine), looking like a Faberge egg with green wings. 1780s

Save Power at Work - Help your Fuel Watcher
World War Two public information poster for the Ministry of Food & Power - Save Power at Work. " Hi! Don t leave that machine running idle! And turn off that Blue Pencil Light!" circa 1940s

Satirical cartoon, Locomotion Plate 2, A few small inconveniences Theres nothing perfect. Showing a man in a steam powered walking machine with things going wrong all around him. circa 1835

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

Man at work in a clothing factory, Hemel Hempstead
Man at work in a clothing factory in Hemel Hempstead, cutting multiple pieces of cloth. Date: 1963

French wartime poster, spanner in the works
French wartime poster for allied fighters, saying that your compatriots in occupied countries are fighting too. Showing a hand literally putting a spanner in the works of the Nazi war machine. 1940s

Man at work in Harris Tweed mill
Man at work in a Harris Tweed mill. Date: 1920s

Saw Mills, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the saw mills at Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, with tree trunks about to be cut into planks. circa 1905

Harvesting scene with soldiers, Western Front, WW1
A harvesting scene with soldiers on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

Australian machine gunners returning from trenches, WW1
Australian machine gunners returning from the trenches on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Man and boy sifting tea, China. circa 1890

A small Letterpress Machine in operation at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s

Operating the Velox Plate-Graining Machine at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s

The Baked Potato Man with his cart -- an aspect of London life. The cart holds metal drawers for keeping the potatoes hot, and spikes at the top to stick the potatoes on. early 20th century

Advertisement for the Westinghouse Laundromat automatic washing machine. 20th century

Minder of a two-colour Letterpress Machine
The Minder of a quad medium two-colour Letterpress Machine checks his sheet into the grippers at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s

Advertisement for Greens Lawn Mowers, featuring the Silens Messor, which was designed to make very little noise. early 20th century

New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure
The New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure. Cartoon by William Heath Robinson. Date: circa 1940

Lifting a proof off a large forme at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s

Large Offset-Litho printing machine
The large Offset-Litho two-colour printing machine (a Roland-Ultra) preparing to run at the Lund Humpries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s

Machine for testing wagon springs
The Worlds First Railway Laboratory was set up at Crewe in 1864. One hundred years later, the Duke of Edinburgh opened new engineering research laboratories at Derby

Poster: Simple jobs that girls can do to help win the war. 1940s

Horse-drawn harvester
Two shire horses pull a farmer sitting asride an basic harvesting machine. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

American soldiers with machine gun, Western Front, WW1
American soldiers with a machine gun behind barbed wire on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

British soldier demonstrates gun to American troops, WW1
A British machine gunner demonstrates the workings of a gun to American troops on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

Studio fashion models in science laboratory
Two studio fashion models in a science laboratory setting. circa 1970s

British motor machine gun battery, Western Front, WW1
A British motor machine gun battery leaving camp in answer to a signal on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

British machine gun transport, Western Front, WW1
British machine gun transport on a road on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

British officers watching machine gun demonstration, WW1
British officers watching a machine gun demonstration on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

British machine gunners in snow, Western Front, WW1
British machine gunners sitting in a group in the snow, near the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Motor machine guns taking cover, Western Front, WW1
Motor machine guns taking cover in a sunken road on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

British machine gunners on guard, WW1
British machine gunners on guard on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

Bathing machine
Illustration of an Edwardian lady entering the sea from a bathing machine.Date: circa 1903

Man in textile industry operating machine, Scotland

SAVA armoured car, WW1
A SAVA armoured car, used by the Belgian army during the First World War. 1914-1918

Workman in a factory operating machinery

Machinery in a factory
An array of machinery in a factory manufacturing white lead

Two women in a factory

Factory with coiled wire
A factory with newly manufactured wire standing in coils on the floor

Boy operating a sewing machine
A boy operating some kind of sewing or stitching machine with a treadle

Private of the 2nd Battalion of The East Yorkshire Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) - Normandy 1944. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: 1944

The Monotype Caster Room at a Printing Works
The Monotype Caster Room at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. The Gentleman holding the clipboard is recording the results of a production time study. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s

Faces of two British soldiers on D-Day
The faces of two British soldiers on D-Day, both members of the 3rd Infantry Division. The gunner on the left is firing a machine gun

Student at Corsham Art School
A student at Corsham Art School, Wiltshire, carefully inspects a print which has just come off the press. Date: 1957

A selection of mincers, mashers and marmalade cutters. Date: circa 1900

Monotype keyboard operator at a printing works
Monotype Keyboards at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. The operators readily surmount the problems posed by complicated mathmatical formulae or even composition in Arabic or Hebrew

Dug in - D-Day - Machine Gun Team

An assortment of coffee roasters and mills. Date: circa 1900

A Spooner Travelling oven
A immense Spooner Travelling Oven - with baked loaves of white bread transported from the large central baking oven round a periphery conveyor belt and roller system to the next stage of the process

Soviet propaganda poster from World War Two
Soviet propaganda poster, TASS Window no. 469. An heroic young female partisan resists the invading Germans. A patriotic poem by Vasyl Lebedev-Kumach appears below the image. Date: early 1940s

95th Para
British paratrouper from 95th Para - involved in the first stage of Operation Overlord, the D-day invasion of France on June 6th 1944

Wartime poster, Britain Expects that you too, this day, will do your duty. Suggesting that civilians as well as soldiers have a role to play in the war effort. 1940s

Knives and Scissors to Grind Oh
Old Street Cries -- Knives and Scissors to Grind Oh!! 20th century

Threshing wheat during the First World War -- more wheat was needed because of the U-Boat campaign. 1914-1918

Machine Gun Corps Poster
Travel all over the world with the Machine Gun Corps. A persuasive military recruitment poster, promising the potential for travel to far corners of the globe Date: 1914-18

To the Public Danger
Humorous scene by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing policemen chasing a gentleman in a futuristic flying machine along a main road. Satire on flying which was in infancy. Date: 20th century

Automatic Milk Machine
A little girl demonstrates how easy it is to fill up a jug with milk from an automatic milk machine! Date: early 1930s

Daily Mirror Advertising space advertisement - Hatter
An advertisement from the Daily Mirror looking for companies to advertise in the newspaper, using the argument that more skilled workers than ever are readers of the paper

Advertisement for the Bendix washing machine

Bendix washing machine advertisement, c. 1955
Advertisement for the Bendix automatic home washer, which, claims the woman in the advert, really does do everything. I find that hard to believe. c.1955

Manufacturing Wool Yarn
The largest (at the time) single line of worsted carding machines for opening scoured raw wool prior to combing at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Permanent Hair-Waving machine, 1928
Curls are attached by the flex to the chandelier-like electrical machine. This device was exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibion at the White City, 1928. Date: 1928

Machine Sheep Shearing
A row of men machine shearing sheep at a New Zealand Sheep Station. Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for Paul Kitchens of Breaston, Derby, with London showrooms in Old Bond Street. Showing a stylish modern fitted kitchen with red and white cupboards

George V Pillar Box
An English postman in his uniform, demonstrates the knack of buying a book of stamps from a vending machine attached to a King George V pillar box. Date: early 1930s

Clothing Factory 1963
Rows of women working with sewing machines in a clothing factory in Hemel Hempstead Date: 1963

Quorum Boutique, London
Interior of Kensington fashion boutique Quorum, founded by Alice Pollock and later joined by Ossie Clark; here a break from the sewing machine and ironing board Date: 1964

Psychometric Test
A young woman, wired up to a Psychometer machine, undergoes a psychometric test. Date: early 1930s

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