Vintage Engineering Innovations

Black and white images showcasing 1950s and 1940s mechanical devices, including dishwashers and watch manufacturing, emphasizing technology and craftsmanship.

Lockdown shot of man keeping alcohol bottle in ice bucket
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Sticky Bomb- the Production of the No 74 Grenade in Britain, 1943 A glass flask is examined to gauge the depth of the neck of the flask at a factory producing sticky bombs somewhere in Britain. These glass flasks form the main body of the bomb and are covered in an adhesive coating and protective casing before being filled with explosives at a filling factory.
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Woodford, Photoheliograph, Telescope in an observatory at Woodford, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, Plate XXXIII., height 197 mm, width 128 mm, maker, manufacturer, 1882 - 1892, paper, collotype, photoprint
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Engraving depicting the Earth's path around the Sun, showing the seasons of the year. In the margin are various comets and nebulae. Dated 19th Century
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Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 Piercing Neustustoms shot chlorine barrier (CV 1912). undated
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Damaged balloons descending over field in the Nebraska.Stratosphere - Three stages of the attempt by three American adventures to penetrate the Stratosphere. September 17, 1934. (Photo by The Associated Press).
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Vintage photograph. Hand holding test tube with liquid.
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Poll photo collection. Factory for fertilizer Pantex at Haifa. A laboratory employee is doing with a apane that largely consists of varied tubes of all kinds. January 1, 1964. Haifa, Israel
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Elsevier photo collection. Unbreakable POP demonstrated, resistant passing car. March 30, 1954. Utrecht
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Left: for 12cm M.16 / a. H.M.W.Komplt.res.-Manometer. Right: For 2nd bottles - connection Complis. Airfiller. .
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Optical telegraph. Telemuseum in 1969.
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Britain's Atomic Expert: A Profile of the Director of Atomic Research.A Peep Into The Future: (Included as a possible cover picture).A little girl, the youngest daughter of Professor Sir John Cockcroft, peeps through the door of her father's study.Professor Sir John Cockcroft, C.B.E., F.R.S.On July 17, 1948, the cloak of secrecy was lifted from the activities of Britain's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, near Didcot, in Berkshire. November 4, 1949. (Photo by The Central Office of Information, London).
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Vintage photograph. A general view of the laboratory, showing the 75 cm sphere gap on the left and the 100 cm sphere gap on the right.
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Brains That Bounce And Skeletons To Order -- An assembly of the bones of the hand. Drilling each tiny bone to provide for the articulation is a highly skilled job and the girl responsible has a very sound knowledge of all limb construction. May 14, 1953. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Largest perfect sphere of crystal in world now in National Museum circa 1930.
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A woman wringing out a piece of cloth. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
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Dmitri Skobeltsyn at the Time for Research by the Compton effect by Anonymous /© The Lebedev Physics Institute (FIAN), Moscow/1924/Russia/Genre
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S63-20800 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Chimpanzee Ham being assisted into spacesuit prior to the Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) test flight which was conducted on Jan. 31, 1961.
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The first travellers rocket-blasted from the earth will experience the mule-kicks of acceleration. Then they will experience the mosquito - bite irritations of a gravity-free existence in a cramped spaceship.Let us review the seriocomic aspects of trying to live without gravity.Picture yourself in a gravity-free spaceship. You're seated at a dinner table with a meat, platter and glass of water before you. You're thirsty. You raise the glass to your lips, accelerating it in the process.As the glass reaches your lips you decelerate it to a stop. The water, however, is not fastened to the glass. October 30, 1955. (Photo by Press Feature Service Pty. Ltd.).
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Monkey sitting on a chair and being trained for space research work, School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, USA
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Elsevier photo collection. N.V. KEMA. Shielding high-voltage laboratory. 1938. Arnhem
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Description: Barbados. 'Arrow (flowering head) of sugarcane plant being examined to determine sex'. Photograph No D 77052 Official Barbados photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Publicity statement on reverse. Location: Barbados Date: 1955 Mar barbados, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens
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Einer Nielsen, Danish medium, producing ectoplasm at Oslo Date: 4 September 1921
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