Tube Collection (page 2)

Empty tube station, Blackhorse Road on the Victoria Line, London, 1974. Period posters on the wall include adverts for Marlboro Cigarettes and the Evening News on the right hand side

Tube train standing at Blackhorse Road station on the Victoria Line, London, 1974. Blackhorse Road station in Walthamstow was opened in 1968 and is the least used station on the Victoria line

Passengers waiting at Blackhorse tube station on the Victoria Line, London, 1974. A traveller in a typical mid 1970s leather Jacket carries a plastic suitcase, so common at the time

Blackhorse Road tube station on the Victoria Line, London, 1974. Artist: Michael Walters
Blackhorse Road tube station on the Victoria Line, London, 1974. Blackhorse Road station in Walthamstow, after undergoing some refurbishment in 1974

Empty Jubilee Line Tube tunnel, before completion, London, 1974. Artist: Michael Walters
Empty Jubilee Line Tube tunnel, before completion, London, 1974. The The new Fleetline section of the Julilee Line from Baker street to Stanmoore was started in 1971

Great Man-Made River monument, Tripoli, Libya, late 20th century. Started in 1980, the Great Man-Made River project is one of the largest engineering schemes in the world

The Signal-Box at a Tube Railway Junction, 1926.From My Railway Book, No. 40, by Cecil J. Allen. [John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd. London, 1926]

Interior of the Latest Type of Tube Coach, 1926. From My Railway Book, No. 40, by Cecil J. Allen. [John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd. London, 1926]

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]

Excavating a tube railway, Great Northern and City Railway, London, c1903 (1903). Artist: Pearson & Son Ltd
Excavating a tube railway: at work in the shield, Great Northern and City Railway, London, c1903 (1903). The Great Northern & City Railway constructed underground tunnels to allow electrified trains

Londons New Streamlined Underground Train, Northern Line, 1940. The destination of the train is Golders Green via City. From Trains of Today. [Juvenile Productions Ltd. London, 1940]

A dining-room suite, with table and chairs of steel tube. By Practical Equipment Ltd. of London, 1932. From The Studio Volume 103. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1932]

The Ignitron tube, 1938. Invented by Joseph Slepian, an employee of Westinghouse, the Ignitron is a gas-filled tube known as a mercury-arc rectifier

Native girls with their water vessels made from shafts of bamboo, Philippines, 1907. Artist: HC White
Native girls with their water vessels made from shafts of bamboo, Philippines, 1907. Detail from a stereoscopic card

The Most Mysterious Substance in Nature - Radium, 1903. Artist: Alfred Hugh Fisher
The Most Mysterious Substance in Nature - Radium, 1903. Experiments made in Paris by the discoverers, Pierre and Marie Curie

Adams still, 1886. Illustration from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, by Charles Tomlinson, Volume I, (Jamess Virtue, London, 1886)

Two drunken men in a bed, 1906

James Henry Greathead, British engineer, (1934). Greathead (1844-1896) worked on the underground railway networks of London

Torricellis demonstration of the effect of atmospheric pressure on a column of liquid, 1643 (1873)
Evangelista Torricellis demonstration of the effect of atmospheric pressure on a column of liquid, 1643 (1873). Torricelli (1608-1647), Italian physicist and mathematician

Steel works c1925

Sectional view of a mid-19th century steam railway locomotive, 1882. The illustration shows the workings of the locomotive, including the firebox and boiler tubes

Galileos thermometer, 1592. Artist: Galileo Galilei
Galileos thermometer, 1592. A 1994 copy of the air thermometer made by Galileo Galilei, the celebrated Italian scientist. This was probably the first instrument made for the measurement of

The Workmens Train, 1872. This picture shows steam trains at Gower Street station on the Metropolitan (underground) railway which opened in 1863. Workers hurry to catch their morning train to work

Discharge in Geissler tubes containing rarefied gases, 1887
Discharge in Geissler tubes containing rarefied gases. Investigations of these phenomena led to the discovery of cathode rays, x-rays and electrons. From A. Ganot Natural Philosophy. (London, 1887)

Blood transfusion, c1880. Blood flows from the arm of the donor (left) into a cup, and is then pumped from the bottom of the cup and forced through a canula into the patient

Artists signature, Sibelius Monument, Sibelius Park, Helsinki, Finland, 2011 Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Artists signature, Sibelius Monument, Sibelius Park, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. Made from stainless steel, this monument to Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finlands greatest composer, was unveiled in 1967

Sibelius Monument, Sibelius Park, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Sibelius Monument, Sibelius Park, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. Made from stainless steel, this monument to Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finlands greatest composer, was unveiled in 1967

Replacing an old gas main, Commercial Street, London, 1906
Replacing an old gas main, Commercial Street, Stepney, London, 1906. Works during tramway electrification: replacing an old 48-inch gas main with a new one at the junction of Whitechapel High Street

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