Screw Collection (page 4)

Thomas Cook Archive - Photo - the Amasis
Thomas Cook Archive - Photo - the screw steamer Amasis. early 20th century

Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien, Loiret, France
Street mobile French Grape Press at Gien a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Date: 1910s

Engineers working at Husband & Co, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 1962. The engineers are assembling a giant worm screw drive for a radio telescope at Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall into its housing

Sir Joseph Whitworth, British mechanical engineer, 1887. Whitworth (1803-1887) produced the standard screw thread which bears his name and invented numerous machine tools

Joseph Whitworth, British engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, c1880. Whitworth (1803-1887) produced the standard screw thread which bears his name and invented numerous machine tools

Transitional ship, 1886. Sectional view of a vessel fitted with both sails and a steam engine driving a screw. From Physics in Pictures by Theodore Eckardt. (London, 1886)

Various representations of hydrodynamics, Wurtemberg, c1850. 2) Fountain: 3) Persian wheel or Noria: 4) Archimedes Screw: 5) Chain pump: 6&7) Suction and force pumps: 8) Fire engine: 10, 11

Joseph Whitworth, British engineer and inventor, c1880. Whitworth (1803-1887) produced the standard screw thread which bears his name and invented numerous machine tools

TSS California, steamship of the Anchor Line
TSS California, (turn screw) steamship of the Anchor Line. Date: circa 1930

American Screw Company s. United States. Engraving, 1884
American Screw Company s. Manufactory of patent Gimlet-Pointet Screws. United States. Engraving, 1884

Kabyle Olive Oil Press - North Eastern Algeria
A quite outstanding postcard (incredible detail) showing an olive oil press in operation in the Kabyle Region of Algeria. The Kabyle people are Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimated

Quebec Steamship Company - S. S. Bermudian
The S. S. Bermudian of the Quebec Steamship Company - held the record for the fastest trip between New York and Bermuda of 39 hours, 20 minutes, set on 9th February, 1912. Date: circa 1913

One of the first Atlantic twin-screw steamers. A twin-screw steamer (or steamship) is a steam-powered vessel propelled by two screw propellers, one on either side of the plane of the keel

Bassinet With Screw Fastening For The Ventail, Said To Have Belonged To Guy, Earl Of Warwick, C. 1460
Bassinet With Screw Fastening For The Ventail, Said To Have Belonged To Guy, Earl Of Warwick, C.1460. From The British Army: Its Origins, Progress And Equipment, Published 1868

The S. S. Great Britain Leaving Liverpool, England In 1853. From Cyclopaedia Of Useful Arts And Manufactures By Charles
The S.S. Great Britain Leaving Liverpool, England In 1853. From Cyclopaedia Of Useful Arts And Manufactures By Charles Tomlinson

Diagram Showing Comparative Size Of Rms Titanic With World Landmarks. From Left: Washington Monument At 555 Feet, Metropolitan Tower New York At 700 Feet, New Woolworth Building New York At 750 Feet

Blocks Of Eco-Friendly Natural Reclaimed Wood Screwed Together To Form A Flat Pattern Wall Surface; Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States Of America

Switzerland, Close-up of propeller; Duebendorf

Tools with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Mechanical Engineer works on a rifle in gun factory, Gun Quarter area of Birmingham, 1950

Hamburg America Line twin-screw express steamer, New York to Southampton, London and Paris and Hamburg

Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1
Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The

PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Rabaul. Japanese reconnaissance aircraft Mitsubishi F-1 shotted down in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, during the Second World War

The Screw Em Out golf hole cleaner by Heath Robinson
A typically convoluted contraption from William Heath Robinson, the first in a series entitled, Very Patent Aides to Sport, showing the Screw-Em-Out golf hole cleaner in action on a golf course

Tobacconists shop in Chester, Cheshire
The House of Bewlay tobacconists shop in Eastgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, where paranormal activity was reported from 1968 onwards

Screw
Illustration of a screw screwed in a wood

Spanner turning bolt, front view

Engraving of worm-driven fire squirt
Engraving of people operating a large worm-driven fire squirt mounted on two wheels, to put out a fire in a burning building, reproduced from Besoni, Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum, 1568

Aptyxiella portlandica (Sowerby), Portland screwstone
A gastropod steinkern or internal cast of a Portland screwstone (Aptyxiella portlandica) from the Jurassic Portland Stone, Top Roach, Portland

Spirochete bacteria, TEM
Spirochete bacteria, coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM). Spirochetes are bacteria with helically coiled cells

The Shipbuilder, Souvenir Number
Front cover of a Souvenir Number of The Shipbuilder industry journal, focusing on the White Star Line triple-screw cruise liners, Olympic and Titanic

HMS Phoenix after the Hong-Kong Typhoon, September 1906
Photograph of HMS Phoenix, the twin-screw steel and wood sloop of 1895, heeled over beside the coaling station, Hong Kong

SS Ernest Bazin, 1897
Illustration of M. Bazins Roller Steamer, SS Ernest Bazin, leaving Le Havre on a sea trial, July 1897. This vessel, launched in 1896

Rattler V Alecto Test
In a British government trial to compare the merits of screw and paddle wheel, the warsloop Rattler proves more powerful than the paddle- steamer Alecto

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

Perpetual motion machine described in about 1664 by Ulrich von Cranach of Hamburg. Iron balls drive the water wheel that operates the Archimedean screw that raises the balls up again

Launch of the Hannibal steamship, 1854
The launch of the HMSS Hannibal screw steamship on 31st January 1854 at Deptford Dockyard. The ship served in the Crimean War. Date: 1854

How can you do it on your screw? ( Screw meant how much you earned). The question here is... How indeed was she getting so much money for all these fancy clothes, hats and shoes...!!! Date: circa 1909

Saint Louis steamship renamed to USS Louisville in WWI
Saint Louis, twin-screw, was a transatlantic passenger liner built for American Line by William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1895. Sponsored by Mrs

Study the air screw by Leonardo da Vinci. Manuscript B, shee
Flying machines. Study of air screw by Leonardo da Vinci. Manuscript B, sheet, 83 V, 1483-1486. Model by Mario Alberto and Vittorio Somenzi, 1952. The science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardesque models. Adjustable-tilt wing and Wing-beating d
Leonardesque models. Adjustable-tilt wing (Codex Atlanticus) and Wing-beating device with a screw and lead screw system ( Manuscript B). Leonardo da Vinci.16 th century

Model. Wing-beating device with a screw and lead screw syste
Flying machines. Wing-beating device with a screw and lead screw system. Manuscript B, sheet 77 r. Leonardo da Vinci.15th century. Model by Mario Alberto and Vittorio Somenzi, 1952

CALCUTTA IN ROUGH SEA
The Royal Mail screw steam- ship in a hurricane off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean - the wretched passengers below deck must have been alarmed and uncomfortable. Date: 1853

Colgate Dental Cream / Adv
An advertisement for Colgate Ribbon Dental Cream - for strength and happiness...good to taste and good for the teeth. Date: 1919

STEAMSHIP BERLIN
Doppelschraubensalondampfer (twin screw passenger liner) of Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Date: early 20th century

Advert for H. W. Koehler - vacuum flask 1912
" Autotherm", vacuum flask, maintaining heat for 24 hours and keeps liquid cool for days. 1912

East and West India Dock, London - Arrival of John Bowes
East and West India Dock, London - Arrival of the John Bowes screw steamer into the Collier Dock. Date: 1852

City of New York steamer
The City of New York, a screw-steamer built by Messrs Tod and Macgregor, of the Clyde, Glasgow, for the Inman Line (the Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company)

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From the depths of South Wales to the grandeur of New York, screws have played a pivotal role in shaping our world. Two miners, tightly wedged in a narrow coal seam, rely on screws to secure their safety as they extract precious resources for progress. The White Star Line's majestic vessels, Olympic and Titanic, were held together by countless screws that symbolized both luxury and tragedy. In every case of nails and screws lies the potential for construction or destruction - it is up to us how we wield this power. Gutenbergs press revolutionized knowledge dissemination with its intricate screw mechanisms binding books that would enlighten generations. A Cunard Line poster proudly displays the engineering marvels driven by powerful screws across vast oceans. Meanwhile, halfway around the globe, Kabyle People in Algeria ingeniously employ wooden screw olive presses to extract liquid gold from nature's bounty. The LCC-LFB Magirus (screw) 100ft turntable ladder stands tall as a testament to human ingenuity and precision engineering. Nettlefolds patent pointed screws hold together structures that withstand time's relentless assault. Red Star Line Ocean Liner Belgenland boasts triple-screws propelling her forward into an era of unparalleled exploration and adventure. Even dentistry benefits from these small wonders; dental implants secured by LM cross-sectioned screws restore smiles with confidence. Amidst towering skyscrapers in The City of Boston or bustling streets of New York, hidden within every structure lies the humble yet mighty screw – silently holding everything together.