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Side View of Improved Railway Carriage, 1847

Reynoldss Improved Patent Safety Cab, 1846

Improved Breech-Loading Gun

The benefits of Mrs. Nicholas Gearys Corsets, from Female Beauty, as Preserved
XJF618912 The benefits of Mrs. Nicholas Gearys Corsets, from Female Beauty, as Preserved and Improved by Regimen, Cleanliness and Dress by Mrs. A

Noahs Ark improved, or an attempt to land in the teeth of the wind, Holland, William, active 1782-1817, en sanguine engraving 1790

Opening of the National Fisheries Exhibition at Norwich, 1881: 1
OPENING OF THE NATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION AT NORWICH, 1881: 1. Arrival of the Prince of Wales at St. Andrews Hall. 2. Norfolk Fishermen. 3. Odd Fish. 4. The Annexe. 5

WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Poor Shops do good business with the arrival of troops of the International Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Date: circa 1905

Domestic Sheep, ewes, flock grazing Santiago winter wheat, grazed at twelve sheep per hectare, improving crop and sheep health

Domestic Cattle, Limousin calves, one-day old, born as part of embryo transplant program to improve genetics, England, November

Plan and side views of the improved riding rudder glider model. 1853. From Cayleys original notebook

The Boeing B-17D Flying Fortress had improved engines and increased weights over the B-17C

Threshing machine by Andrew Meikle (1719-1811) Scottish inventor and millwright. Top: Original form powered by horses. Bottom: improved form powered by water wheel. Engraving 1811

Robert Bakewell (1725-1795) English agriculturist. Improved sheep and cattle by selective breeding, particularly New Leicester (Dishley) sheep and Longhorn cattle, at his home Dishley Grange

Edisons improved form of JW Trowbridges electric dynamometer. Scientific American New York 1879

Edison generator for electric light at Menlo Park. Behind doors is the 80 hp engine. The two vignettes (top) are Edisons improved form of JW Trowbridges electric dynamometer

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) French chemist. Among other achievements, Lavoisier was one of the discoverers of oxygen, and established the laws of chemical combination

Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869) English physicist and opticist who made important improvements to the microscope. On the table beside him is his improved microscope (1828)

Rumfords fireplace. Improved efficiency by reducing chimney and depth of fireplace and putting polished plates to reflect heat into room. Wood engraving c1880

Longhorn cattle owned by Sir John Harpur-Crewe, Calke Abbey. Robert Bakewell (1725-1795) of Dishley, Leicestershire, improved the breed. Dual purpose, beef and dairy. Chromolithograph 1885

French postal service. Sorting letters on the Paris-Marseilles express by the light of oil lamps. The expansion of the railway network in the nineteenth century greatly improved mail services

Noahs Ark improved, or an attempt to land in the teeth of the wind, Holland, William, active 1782-1817, en sanguine engraving 1790

Side View Of Improved Railway Carriage, 1847

BRANCEPETH CASTLE, is a castle in the village of Brancepeth in County Durham, England, some 5 miles south-west of the city of Durham

Reynoldss Improved Patent Safety Cab, 1846

LITTLEs IMPROVED ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, 1851 engraving

Improved Breech-Loading Gun

The Beaumont Improved Compressed Air Locomotive for Street Railways, 1882

Cattle farming, dairy heifers in roundhouse building, designed for healthy enviroment by improving ventilation, England, May

Domestic Sheep, Improved Welsh Mountain rams, three standing in pasture, Welshpool, Powys, Wales, October

Chalked hands, high-speed photograph C015 / 6533
Chalked hands. High-speed photograph of a man applying gym or climbing chalk (white) to his hands. This is magnesium carbonate

DAGUERRE, Louis-Jacques-Mande (1787-1851). French inventor that improved the photography. Litography

Adams Improved Omnibus
ADAMS IMPROVED OMNIBUS Date: 1847

Jacquard Loom
JACQUARD LOOM An improved version of the loom originally invented in 1804 Date: 1915

Riga, Latvia. St. Peters Lutheran Church in Townhall Square

Moorheads improved graduated magnetic machines. Man showing two women a machine designed to send a magnetic force through the body to cure illness. Date c1848

To the right hon able the Earl of Hertford, ... this plate representing winding, warping with a new improved warping mill, and weaving; is... inscribed by... Wm. Hincks

Improved order of red men in freedom, friendship and charity. Date c1867 Dec. 10

Improved buckeye, with table rake reaper

Garricks Villa
The entrance to Hampton House, now known as Garricks Villa, home of the famous English actor DAVID GARRICK from 1754. Much improved by the ADAM brothers. Date: 18th century

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - section
A sectional view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - elevation
The elevation view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - ground plan

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - bed designs
Bed designs in Jeremy Benthams proposed panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The scheme, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Boat Invention / Lincoln
An improved system for buoying vessels, patented by Abraham Lincoln, future President of the United States. A model of the invention and facsimile drawings are shown here Date: 1849

HARRISONs NO 5
Harrisons number 5 timekeeper or chronometer for finding longitude (an improved version of the number 4). Date: circa 1760

Excavator improving stream bank to help prevent flooding, Cumbria, England, june

Lords Cricket Ground renovation. Aerial photograph of Lords cricket ground (upper left) as the outfield was being relaid during maintenance work

Angioplasty techniques. Computer illustration of balloon and laser angioplasty. Angioplasty is a surgical procedure to unblock

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