House Hold Collection (page 10)

Science fiction story, 19th century
Science fiction story, 19th-century artwork. This artwork accompanied the republication in serial form of part of an early French science fiction story Ignis (1883)

Toy manufacturing, 19th century
Toy manufacturing, 19th-century artwork. Family working together at home to make wooden toys. This is an example of small-scale crafts production (cottage industries)

Hand drill tool, on a white background

Can of WD-40 oil
Spray can of WD-40 oil, on a white background

Ideal Home Exhibition stamp, 1920
Ideal Home Exhibition stamp. This stamp was used to advertise the Ideal Home Exhibition, held in Olympia, London, and organised by the Daily Mail

Solar-powered lights, conceptual image
energy saving lamp with solare module

Coloured light bulbs, artwork
saving energy light signal light

Coloured light bulbs
energy saving light bulb

Swallowed toothbrush, X-ray
Swallowed toothbrush. X-ray of the abdomen of a female patient who has swallowed a toothbrush (lower middle)

Electroplating, 19th century
Electroplating. Artwork showing an inspection of a workers skill in the technique of electroplating. The electroplated object is being examined

Household rat, artwork
Household rat. Artwork of a rat peering through a hole in an internal wall in a house. The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is a rodent found worldwide, especially in Europe and North America

Solar water heater
Rooftop solar water heater. This device uses sunlight to heat water that is piped through it. Photographed in Hawaii, USA

Domestic electricity meter. Photographed in Cocoa, Florida, USA

Gobal refuse, conceptual image
Global refuse, conceptual image

UK refuse, conceptual image. Full dustbin bags over a map of the UK and Ireland

European refuse, conceptual image

Barbeque, thermogram
Barbeque. Thermogram of tongs being used to handle food being cooked on a barbeque. Thermography records surface temperatures by detecting the long-wavelength radiation emitted by an object

Cooking with a saucepan, thermogram
Cooking with a saucepan. Thermogram of a ladle being used to stir a liquid being heated over a gas hob in a saucepan. Thermography records surface temperatures by detecting the long-wavelength

Kettle and teapot, thermogram
Kettle and teapot. Thermogram of a kettle being heated on a gas hob next to a teapot filled with hot water. Thermography records surface temperatures by detecting the long-wavelength radiation

Frying an egg, thermogram
Frying an egg. Thermogram of an egg being fried in a frying pan being heated over an electric heating surface. Thermography records surface temperatures by detecting the long-wavelength radiation

Microgeneration power technology. Small-scale wind turbine, solar panels (arrays of photovoltaic cells) and solar heat collectors (centre of top row) on the roof of a building

Wastage - scrap aluminium food trays on white background

Solar technology, Germany
Solar technology. Solar heat collectors (black panels) on the roof of a building on the Braamwisch Ecological Housing Estate, part of the Karlshohe Solar Project, Hamburg, Germany

Wireless internet households, artwork
Wireless internet households, computer artwork. The yellow broadcast symbols represent the wireless networks installed in each house

Solar power technology, Germany
Solar power technology. Solar panels (arrays of photovoltaic cells) and solar heat collectors (upper centre) on the roof of a building

Residential solar panels, UK. Photovoltaic cells on the side of a block of flats. The cells turn the energy in sunlight into electricity for use in the flats

Solar heat collectors, Germany. Solar heat collectors on the roof of a building on the Braamwisch Ecological Housing Estate, part of the Karlshohe Solar Project, Hamburg, Germany

Domestic micro wind turbine. Vertical axis micro wind turbine on top of an apartment block. The triple helix shape enables it to catch the wind from any direction

Candles burning

Friction demonstration materials. Collection of different materials that will be used as part of a classroom demonstration of friction

Building, thermogram. A thermogram shows the variation in temperature on the surface of an object, measured by the long-wave infrared radiation it emits

FRENCH KITCHEN. A kitchen in a middle-class household in Paris, France. Oil on canvas, 1815, by Martin Drolling

GANC2A-00275
Veiled bride in ancient Rome. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Girl pouring water from a tin into a bucket
A girl in a summer dress pouring water from a large tin into a plastic bucket

Woman washing a sheet in a river in Portugal
Woman washing a sheet at the side of a river in Portugal. She is kneeling on a specially designed wooden platform, which stops her getting too wet

Woman hanging out the washing on a line
A woman hanging out the washing on a line (or two), apparently at the side of a stretch of water

Holiday, by Ethel Parkinson. Having worked hard at their household chores all week, at last this little Dutch girl and boy can have a days holiday

Royal Grooms - Buckingham Palace
Royal Grooms at Buckingham Palace, London

Teenager being told off
An older woman knits in her sitting room, whilst delivering a stern reprimand to a sullen faced teenage girl (her daughter) who sits alongside her looking downcast and moderately fed up

Household Brigade at Hawthorn Hill Meeting
Prince Alexander of Teck (Queen Marys brother), with his wife Princess Alexander of Teck (Princess Alice of Albany) standing behind the fence on his right, watching the riders at the water jump

The Kitchenmaid and the Constable
A humourous photograph of a kitchenmaid, busy doing the washing up, being proposed to by her policeman admirer. The photograph is entitled Cupboard Love

Dad and the Spring Clean
Getting out of the house in the morning. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Spring-Cleaning in Full Swing VI
A man uses a door handle as a shaving mirror while women are spring cleaning carpets around him. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary

Spring-Cleaning in Full Swing
Women spring clean the house around a man who is eating breakfast. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Shortage of Labour during WWI
Depicting the problem of manpower shortage on the home front during World War One. A householder finds it impossible to get an odd job man to fix a dripping tap. They re all off fighting the war

Adverts for Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management
Two pages of advertisements for Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management and other Cookery Books, still going strong in the early 20th century

The Officers Quarters, Knightsbridge Barracks, 1880
Engraving showing the exterior of the then newly built Officers Quarters, for the Household Cavalry, in Knightsbridge, London, 1880

Pet Squirrel C1860
A pet squirrel in a German household

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