Equipment Collection (page 6)

Gas mask. This device is to allow the user to breathe during a chemical gas attack, or in a smoke-filled building. The tube at lower left is for drinking liquids such as water

Cotton weaving shed, Preston, Lancashire
A huge cotton weaving shed at the works of Messrs Horrockses, Crewdson and Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire, with people at work

Person with a camera, X-ray
Person with a camera. Coloured, frontal X-ray of a person holding a camera (blue, left). The persons skull (centre) and neck bones (vertebrae, lower centre) can be seen

Goldfish – in goldfish bowl with weed
BB-1013 Goldfish - in goldfish bowl with weed Carassius auratus Brian Bevan Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Lawn Mower Advt, 1884
British advertisement for a lawn mower and garden roller

The new R. A. F. Centrifuge 1955
Testing the effects of gravitational stresses experienced by pilots at high speeds: the new R.A.F. centrifuge at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough, Hampshire

HMS Cornwall is pictured sailing through some rough water in the Gulf of Aden. The Royal Navy Type 22 frigate was conducting counter piracy operations in the area at the time

Washing machine, artwork F006 / 7157
Washing machine, computer artwork

Marconi radio valve. This is a Marconi transmitter valve of the type M.T.6. Marconi patented his radio equipment in 1896, founding a company in 1897 to build the new equipment

Marconi with his radio, 19th century
Marconi with his radio, 19th-century artwork. The apparatus consists of a receiver and a transmitter. Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)

Distillation, 16th century woodcut
Distillation. Coloured 16th century woodcut depicting apparatus used for distillation. Two liquids to be distilled are being heated in large flasks (bottom left and right)

W. Heath Robinson
Cartoon, Safety First. A Cricket forecast for 1922 showing the new safety equipment for playing cricket, which is health and safety gone mad

Advert for The Ford Typewriter. 1902

Illustration, axe with wooden handle

Interior of the Forge, 1837 (oil on canvas)
XIR154717 Interior of the Forge, 1837 (oil on canvas) by Parran, Rosine (fl.1831-39); 65x53 cm; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France; French, out of copyright

Eyeglasses for chickens patent, 1903 C024 / 3600
Eyeglasses for chickens patent, 1903. Artwork of a device designed by Andrew Jackson Jr. to protect the eyes of chickens from aggressive pecking by other chickens

Double bicycle patent, 1905 C024 / 3615
Double bicycle patent, 1905. Artwork of a double bicycle patent invented by Karl Lange. It was designed to perform a loop the loop stunts at circus performances

18th century fire engines
Various early fire engines and firefighting equipment from the 18th century Date: 18th century

LCC-LFB general purpose lorry
A general purpose lorry, manufactured by Dennis of Guildford

LCC-LFB Holloway fire station appliance room
Station 76 was Holloway fire station, North London, located in Mayton Street, opened in 1907. Here its self propelled pump and pump-escape stand ready in the appliance room

Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, aerial photograph. Goonhilly is the largest satellite Earth receiving station in the world with sixty communications dishes in total

Fingerprint scanner. Persons finger being scanned by a fingerprint scanner. This scanner is being used to open a door. The ridges on peoples fingers form a unique identifying pattern

Rust treatment. Brush being used to apply a rust removing mix of chemicals to a rusty spanner. Many commercial mixes of chemicals are available to remove rust (iron oxide)

Firefighter
MODEL RELEASED. Firefighter in a smoke-filled training room

Normal EEG read out of the brains alpha waves
Normal electroencephalogram (EEG) read-out of the brains alpha waves. original is b/w m400/01m

Card index box. Index cards arranged alphabetically in a box

Camera lenses. Seen here (from left to right) are: a wide-angle fixed lens, a standard zoom lens (left), a wide-angle zoom lens (right) and a telephoto lens

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) observing a lunar eclipse in Rome, Italy, in 1500. Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who studied in both Poland and Italy

Gyroscope spinning on a piece of string
Gyroscope. Toy gyroscope spinning on a piece of string. A gyroscope is a heavy spinning disc mounted so that its axis is free to adopt any orientation

Beekeeping, 19th century
Beekeeping, 19th-century artwork. Beekeeper extracting honey from honeycombs obtained from a beehive. Bees collect nectar from a wide range of flowering plants

Military aircraft cockpit with head-up display. Photographed at the 2009 Paris Air Show

Oil drilling rig at night, North Sea
Oil drilling rig at night. Byford Dolphin semi-submersible oil rig moored in the Cromarty Firth at the town of Invergordon, Scotland

Oil drilling rig, North Sea
Oil drilling rig. Byford Dolphin semi-submersible oil rig moored in the Cromarty Firth at the town of Invergordon, Scotland

Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), soviet cosmonaut and first man in space. Gagarin made the first manned space flight on 12 April 1961

Seance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research
Undated photograph of corner of the sance room at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, with trumpets on table. HPG/1/2/1 (vi)

British First Airborne Troops march towards Arnhem; Second W
Photograph showing men of the British First Airborne Division marching into Arnhem with their guns and equipment, after landing outside the town, September 1944

Geologists Equipment
A geologists equipment includes hammers, a sieve, tweezers and a strong satchel

William A. Doberck, Danish astronomer
William A. Doberck (1852-1941), Danish astronomer. Doberck became the first director of the Hong Kong Observatory from its foundation in 1883 until 1907

Return to Flight spacewalk. Astronaut Soichi Noglichi (from Japans space agency) waving for the camera. Astronaut Steve Robinson is seen taking the picture reflected in the visor

Paddle steamer Natchez on the Mississippi River, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Multi-pipette
Multi-channel pipette. Droplets of fluid hanging from the openings of a multi-channel pipette that is being used to fill a multi-well sample tray

Dog - pug on agility course
LA-1802 Dog - pug on agility course Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Dog training / Agility
LA-1395 Dog training / Agility Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Gaumont Projector 1903
Gaumont projector, adaptable to both still and moving pictures, Date: 1903

Primus Stove 1932
The Primus stove is an indispensable item in any campers equipment, burning paraffin gas without a wick, pumped by hand and extremely efficient

Calvados Distilling
A local yokel sits beside Calvados distillation equipment on a Normandy farm

Fire-Fighting Motorcycle
Merryweathers fire-fighting motor-cycle and sidecar unit of 1910, with manual fire- pump mounted on a platform

Filling a Tooth
A rather bored-looking young dentist fills his clients tooth with the aid of a small dental mirror

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