Device Collection (page 64)

STEAMSHIP PITTSBURGH
White Star liner on the Atlantic crossing known as The Electric Ship because she incorporates so many electrical devices Date: 1924

Multiple Autograph Tool
A starlet saves herself a lot of time and effort by using a device for signing several autographs at once

Artist Using Device
An artist makes use of a perspective device to help him paint a portrait

Ignitron Device C1936
The Westinghouse " Ignitron" tube was designed to register fast-moving objects

Weighing the Earth C1936
A gravity-measuring device which can measure the weight of the earth

Aerial Recce Foreseen
A flying machine capable of carrying out reconnaisance over the battlefield will be of great help in tomorrows wars : this fantastic device shows how it might look

Stevens Screw Propeller
American engineer John Stevens is the first to apply the screw principle to propel a steamboat, though it will be some time before his device replaces the paddle wheel

Codys Kite (Cig Card)
Codys military kite was tested by the Royal Navy as a communications device

RITCHELLs DEVICE 1878
RITCHELLs FLYING MACHINE : the inventor demonstrates his neat device at Hartford, Connecticut, though I doubt if he flew as high as this !

Richardsons Swim Device
Richardsons swimming device allows one to sally forth by pedalling a propellor underwater

German Rocket Experiment
German rocket experiments on a windswept spit of land - filling the device with its chemical fuel

LE BRIS 1856 PROJECT
LE BRISs PROJECT the bird-like flying device of Jean-Marie Le Bris

Evening Modes for 1929
A device to lengthen hemlines: the train of this grey princess-shaped gown, also a velvet bridge coat with ruffle trim, a lace gown & a green gown with double bolero corsage

Horn Book / Teach Reading
A Horn-book - a hand-held device which was used to teach reading in schools

Using a Copying Device
A female employee uses Louis Jamins copying device which copies all documents to perfection, he assures us

Grey Hat with Feather
A fetching grey & black felt hat with a low flat crown & broad up-turned brim ornamented with a dyed & shaped feather & a jewelled device for holding it

Industry / Power / Solar
Mouchots solar-powered device draws energy from the suns heat and utilises it to power machines

French Steam Carriage
Many designers believe steam is the best propulsive power for road vehicles, and this device by Dion Bouton and Trepardoux is simply a road version of a rail locomotive

PORCUPINE
Rodent quadruped of the hystericidae family. Its erectile spines, or quills, are a protective device of great effectiveness

Emperors Reading Device
The Emperor Frederick in his study at Charlottenburg can read at ease with this clever book-holding device given to him as a present from the Queen

A Reading in Bed Device
A book-holding device for reading in bed. The book may be inclined to catch the light, whilst the pages are kept free for ease of page- turning

Vowel Simulator / 1900
Marages machine to simulate the sounds and mouth shapes created by saying the five vowels

Watching Bairds Device
Watching a demonstration of BAIRDs apparatus

Prison Hulk, Woolwich
Convicts from the hulks anchored in the Thames off Woolwich, at work on the river-bank handling timber with the aid of a huge lifting device

Lifting Water 1690
Device for raising water : the lower end of the tube is submerged, so when the string of discs is pulled through it by turning the handle, they bring water with them

Anti-Suffrage Device
Automatic Suffragette Exterminating Pillar-Box - a comment on militant suffragettes who sabotage letter boxes

Art / Techniques / Device
Device used to paint or draw landscapes with the correct scale. It is made of glass marked with squares and an eye-piece on the end of an adjustable rod

Seance Device
Four spiritualists try a new method of communicating with the spirits, using a metal plate and electrical controls in a way I don t pretend to understand (text in Swedish)

First Flying Device
THE FIRST FLYING DEVICE a model dove was made from wood by Archytas of Tarento, (428-347 BC) it was sustained by gas and had flapping wings

Prices Device
Investigator Harry Price with the electric control he devised to detect movements of the mediums hands and feet during a seance

ENTREPRENANT - 3
Balloon, used by the French for reconnaisance during the Revolutionary War, notably at the battle of Fleurus - the first use of a manned airborne device in warfare

Le Besniers Device
LE BESNIER, of Sable, France, could not rise from the ground, but launched from a height could cross a river with his flapping paddles

Wechmar Device
Flying man project of Herr WECHMAR, of Austria

Quimby Device
Flying man project of Mr QUIMBY of Wilmington, Delaware (USA)

Capretti Device
CAPRETTIs flying-man project, Milano, Italy

De Groof Accident
DE GROOF launches himself from a balloon over Cremorne Gardens, London, but his device lets him down... fatally

Toilet / Body Deformation
If you want to change the shape of your nose, just use Herr Spezialist Baginskis delightful device

Futuristic device to help a gentleman get dressed
A futuristic device to help a gentleman get dressed in the automatic home of the future. At the press of a button, a mechanical arm holds out his suit, top hat and walking stick

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