Automatic Collection

'Drawing of Francis Picabia', c1930. Creator: Francis Picabia
'Drawing of Francis Picabia', c1930. Francis Picabia's early works were in the Impressionist style. After 1912 he developed a style of abstract cubism with orphic elements which

Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth...Princess Louise Starting the Ship by Electricity...1876. Creator: W. H. O
Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth Dockyard: Princess Louise Starting the Ship by Electricity, 1876. Mr. W. B. Robinson

Fisher's Patent Label Manufactury, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Fisher's Patent Label Manufactury, 1857. We have to notice the invention of a new patent label, which, from its being composed of cloth

Post Office Department Cancelling Machine, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Post Office Department Cancelling Machine
Post Office Department Cancelling Machine, 1913

Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917
Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. It had an electric player violin and a player piano. It played music off of rolls'. Machine that automatically played a violin and a piano

Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917
Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. It had an electric player violin and a player piano. It played music off of rolls'. Machine that automatically played a violin and a piano

Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917
Violano Virtuoso, between 1914 and 1917. It had an electric player violin and a player piano. It played music off of rolls'. Machine that automatically played a violin and a piano

G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918. Creator: Harris & Ewing. G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918
G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918. Men in printing workshop

G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918. Creator: Harris & Ewing. G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918
G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918. Men in photography studio. Glass plate in rack on right, acetic acid behind

G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918. Creator: Harris & Ewing. G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918
G.N. Press Car, between 1913 and 1918. Men in printing works

The Bank-Note Paper-Mill, Laverstoke, Hants. 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Bank-Note Paper-Mill, Laverstoke, Hampshire, 1854. Processing paper used for banknotes. The building, the machinery, and, indeed, the entire premises

Maj. Gen. George Barnett, Commandant, U.S.M.C. Marine Corps Rifle Range; Inspecting... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Maj. Gen. George Barnett, Commandant, United States Marine Corps, Rifle Range; Inspecting Colt's Automatic, 1917. First World War

Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. One man and a four-row cultivator does the work of eight men and eight mules under the one man-one mule system which is still common

Tractor and integrated four-row cultivator, Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi, 1937
Tractor and integrated four-row cultivator, does the work of eight men and eight mules. Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi

Resident of Longview Homesteads in sawmill, Longview, Washington, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resident of Longview Homesteads in sawmill. Longview, Washington

The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Building in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Punching Machine, 1850. View of...the operations of punching bolt-holes in the bars of iron, and cutting off the ends by the shears

The International Exhibition: Gruner's patent folding, stitching and pressing machine, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Gruner's patent folding, stitching and pressing machine, 1862. This compact little folding-machine

Interior of a Power-Loom factory, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Interior of a Power-Loom factory, 1844. We are persuaded that the annexed engraving will be interesting to our readers, in connection with the great question of " The Factory Bill

Love Conquered Fear, c1840. Creator: Auguste Hervieu
Love Conquered Fear, c1840. Ragged child workers in a Victorian textile factory. British writer Frances Trollope visited Manchester in 1832 to witness the condition of children employed in

Automatic Train Stop, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Automatic Train Stop, 1922. From The Romance of Modern Railways, by T. W. Corbin. [Seeley Service & Co. Limited, London, 1922]

Automatic dumper at the co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Automatic dumper at the co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe trip

Large-scale, mechanized farming - potato planter, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California. Large-scale mechanized farming. The potato planter, operated by a crew of three men, makes the rows, fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation

Automatic Pilot, Mechanical Mike, Wiley Post, 1930s. Creator: Sperry Corporation
Complete assembly with hydraulic actuators, plex top for viewing

The Automaton Chess Player, 1845. Creator: Unknown
The Automaton Chess Player, 1845. A machine...invented in the year 1769. by Wolfgang de Kempelin...the concealed player was seated immediately under the chess board of the Automaton...the reverse of

Imported Silk Reeling Machine at Tsukiji in Tokyo, 4th month, 1872

2011 Automated car-wash. Creator: Unknown
2011 Automated car-wash

2012 Honda Jazz CVT. Creator: Unknown
2012 Honda Jazz CVT

In Alsace, a peasant woman is caught in a threshing machine, 1929. Creator: Unknown
In Alsace, a peasant woman is caught in a threshing machine, 1929. En Alsace, Une Paysanne Est Happee Par Une Machine A Battre

Motor-Car Equipped with the New Storage Battery, 1902. Creator: Unknown
Motor-Car Equipped with the New Storage Battery, 1902. From " The Windsor Magazine Vol. XVI - June to November 1902". [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London, 1902]

Reaping Machine, early 19th century. Creator: J Moffat
Reaping Machine, early 19th century. Diagram of a farm implement used for harvesting crops mechanically. Plate CCCCLXXIX from the " Edinburgh Encyclopaedia" edited by David Brewster

Washing A Locomotive on the Canadian National Railway, at Montrea, 1935. Creator: Unknown
Washing A Locomotive on the Canadian National Railway, at Montreal, by means of the special spraying equipment devised for this purpose, 1935. From " Railway Wonders of the World, Vol. 1"

Automatic Coaling at Hornsey Station, Middlesex, 1935. Creator: Unknown
Automatic Coaling at Hornsey Station, Middlesex, 1935. From " Railway Wonders of the World, Vol. 1". [The Amalgamated Press Limited, London, 1935]

Destroyed 75, automatic anti-aircraft gun, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Automatic Ticket and Change Machines at Westminster, 1926. From My Railway Book, No. 40, by Cecil J. Allen. [John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd. London, 1926]

Maxim machine gun, c1895. The engineer Hiram Maxim developed the first fully automatic machine gun (1884) which he offered to the United States War and Navy departments

Super calculating machine, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Automatic telephone exchange, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Modern cinema operating box, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

A metal worker with automatic drill stripping an engine casing, 1940. From Our Air Force published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd. 1940

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Gun, (c1924). Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916) invented the first portable, fully automatic machine gun in 1884

Gatling rapid fire guns, 1862. Artist: William George Armstrong
Gatling rapid fire guns, 1862. Various models of the machine gun patented by American inventor Richard J Gatling in 1862. The weapon, a hand-cranked multiple-barrelled rotary gun

Gatling rapid fire gun, 1862. This was a revolving battery gun and, with ten barrels, had a firing capacity of 1200 rounds a minute. Camel-mounted model. From The Science Record. (New York, 1862)

Gatling rapid fire gun, 1870. This was a revolving battery gun and, with ten barrels, had a firing capacity of rounds of 1200 rounds of a minute. From The Graphic. (London, August 20, 1870)

Montigny mitrailleuse, rapid fire gun, 1870. Artist: Joseph Montigny
Montigny mitrailleuse, rapid fire gun, 1870. Various views of the gun, invented by Joseph Montigny, introduced by the French during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871

Early design of a quick firing cannon, 1482. From De re militari (On Military Matters) by Roberto Valturio. (1482). Written in about 1455, the first printed edition was published in Verona in 1472

Henry Morton Stanleys African expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, 1886-1889 (1887). Emin Pasha, who was in the Egyptian service and Governor of the Equatorial Province

Gatling rapid fire gun, 1861-1862 (1872). This was a revolving battery gun and, with ten barrels, had a firing capacity of 1200 rounds a minute. From The Great Industries of the United States

Mademoiselle Claire, an automaton built by Robert Herdner, 1912. Artist: Robert Herdner
Mademoiselle Claire, an automaton built by Robert Herdner, used by him at l Hopital Bretonneau to hand out surgical instruments from tgrolley. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 18 August 1912

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