Dick Pope tries a new sport, aqua-gliding, Manhasset Bay, New York, late 1920s. The idea is to achieve a great speed, use the ramp for lift, and then...
Electric artists at the Electric Gallery on Avenue Rd. Try out one of their contraptions titled The Works. The girl going into the machine is Marlene...
Thirty-two years ago tomorrow 47 persons stood shivering on the ice over Bras d'Or Lake; Baddeck; N.S.; while mechanics fussed over a queer-looking...
Costumed cast from the Cirque Mechanics' new production, "Pedal Punk" make their way through Times Square December 14, 2015 to promote the show which...
Costumed cast from the Cirque Mechanics' new production, "Pedal Punk" make their way through Times Square December 14, 2015 to promote the show which...
Domestic Chores for husbands in the Victorian eras meant lacing up contraptions like this and made the gay nineties not so gay. The corset required...男人
Ricky Petterd bumps into a boxing bag contraption during an Richmond Tigers AFL training session at ME Bank Centre on April 24, 2014 in Melbourne,...
Brett Deledio kicks the ball next to a boxing bag contraption used to bump into players during a Richmond Tigers AFL training session at ME Bank...
Coach Damien Hardwick reacts while using a boxing bag contraption to bump into players during a Richmond Tigers AFL training session at ME Bank...
Coach Damien Hardwick reacts while using a boxing bag contraption to bump into players during a Richmond Tigers AFL training session at ME Bank...
Coach Damien Hardwick uses a boxing bag contraption to bump into players during a Richmond Tigers AFL training session at ME Bank Centre on March 13,...
Players push back a boxing bag contraption during a Richmond Tigers AFL training session at ME Bank Centre on March 13, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia.
Players push back a boxing bag contraption during a Richmond Tigers AFL training session at ME Bank Centre on March 13, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia.
Toddler swing sits empty on a deserted playground. Although it may look like an instrument of torture with its chains and bars, it is actually a...
Rickett's steam carriage, 1860. An early form of transport; the passengers include the James Sinclair, Earl of Caithness.歸檔, 汽車
Keeling's Engine, 17th century. An early form of firefighting, with a large pump powered by four men. A fifth aims the hose at the flames.
Roger Wallace in his electric car, 1899. A Victorian man in formal dress driving an early electric car.電動車, 19世紀風格
'French Penalty', between 1824 and 1828. Goya, Francisco, de . Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
Illustration from the children's book The Adventures of Uncle Lubin, 1902. From a private collection.
Fan staging on a post mill at Tottenhill, Norfolk, 1936. The fantail is a device for rotating the mill in order to keep the sails facing the wind at...
Knife and scissors grinder, London, 1926-1927. Illustration from Wonderful London, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, Volume I, published by...
'The New-fashioned Phaeton', 1776. Sic itur ad astra - Thus do we reach the stars. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ......電梯
Thomas Rickett's steam carriage, 1860 . Rickett, a Birmingham maker of agricultural implements, built a steam-powered plough in 1858. This prompted...汽車
Samuel Franklin Cody, 1912. American-born Cody invented the manlifting kite as a means for military observation. On 16 October 1908 he made the first...
Potato peeler, 1899. A machine for washing, peeling and removing eyes and sprouts from potatoes. Les Inventions Illustrees. .
The Man in the Moon . Frontispiece of a novel of Gonzales showing a man flying by means of a contraption pulled by birds. Published in History of...
Six early forms of bicycle, c1870. 19th century hobby horses, fore-runners of the bicycles, including the Dandy Horse, Gompertz's velocipede, the...
'Garrett & Son's Double-Cylinder Steam Ploughing Engine and Tackle', c1862. Men lay out a system of ropes or cords connected to a steam engine. The...
Diagram of Mrs Anne Edson Taylor in the barrel in which she plunged over the Niagara Falls on 25 October 1901, her forty-third birthday. She was the...
One of the contraptions. The 16th Annual Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction Event held at MIT, featuring 34 teams and their Rube Goldberg...
Small robot looks to pass along orange ball to another contraption. The 16th Annual Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction Event held at MIT,...
Zoe Miller of Arlington, Mass., right; explains her chain reaction contraption to Jennifer Manthei and her son, Christopher, 7. The Friday After...
The Friday after Thanksgiving 16th Annual ChainReaction Event featured 34 teams with their Rube Goldberg contraptions. Simon Schwartz looks on at his...
The Friday after Thanksgiving 16th Annual ChainReaction Event featured 34 teams with their Rube Goldberg contraptions. Teams and spectators await the...
Participant holds on to his flying contraption while taking part in the Red Bull Flugtag, the first to be held in India, at Sankey Tank in Bangalore...
The Utah Jazz Bear performs rides a contraption during a timeout during a game against the Golden State Warriors at EnergySolutions Arena on November...
Lewis Evans and Tony Harris lowering their Cooper racing car from the roof of a Land Rover on to a metal ramp at the Crystal Palace race circuit.路虎汽車
Mr Meredith of Liverpool has built a radio set from old tins, a bottle, a clothes peg, a cigarette and some razor blades. An assistant in Mr...
Two men using a 'butterfly', a contraption for cutting and raking up weeds from channel beds in Lake Bangweulu, Zambia.
Valerie Davis of Chelsea, London, secures the dog collar around the neck of her friend Peggy Appleton, who wears two more canine contraptions; one as...
Schoolboys showing off their device for brushing the turf in their sports field to their headmaster. Broom heads are fixed to chicken wire and the...教師
Jack Oakie the stage name of Lewis D Offield, the American comic actor is sitting on a metal contraption, high in the sky in a scene from 'Shoot The...
Housepainter uses a contraption that suspends a portable fan in front of his face to keep cool while working.
Passengers on the sea railway which crosses the tidal harbour at St Malo in Brittany. The contraption was worked by cable.
American film star, Anna May Wong framed by a sinister-looking contraption in a still from one of her films.黃柳霜
Full-length image of a patient standing semi-suspended from a contraption designed to treat spinal curvature as two doctors adjust the ropes and...歸檔, 醫生
Life preserver and swimming machine patented by Oscar B Lyon and William H Young . The contraption is operated by turning a handle at the front which...機械, 游泳
Korean man in old fashioned Korean clothing. On his head is a folding contraption which is worn over a small summer hat in rainy weather.朝鮮半島, 男人
