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[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a telegraph apparatus, facing slightly left]

[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a t...

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[Technical illustration shows four stages of André Garnerin's parachute: apparatus for inflating a balloon with hydrogen, a balloon in flight, parachute attached to ascending balloon, and parachute deployed in descent] / Fauchery, del. et sc.

[Technical illustration shows four stages of André Garnerin's parachut...

"Pl. I" from unidentified publication. Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Responsible post. Washington, D.C., Sept. 28. A post, which probably carries with it more responsibility than any other in the field of aviation, is held by Richard C. Gazley, New Chief of the Safety and Planning Division of the Bureau of Air Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce. All problems relating to aircraft, airports, air transport, education, international relations, power plants, and radio development come under his direct supervision. One of the most important phases of his job is the developing and testing of all new safety devices for aircraft. In this picture, Gazley is shown inspecting an audio meter for testing radio receiving apparatus.

Responsible post. Washington, D.C., Sept. 28. A post, which probably c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Demonstrates Bell Laboratory wonders. Sergius P. Grace, Vice-President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, shows the old and the new in telephones. That in his right hand is a model of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone through which sounds were first electronically transmitted in 1875. The larger apparatus near his right hand is the artificial lung and larynx, which enables people with paralyzed vocal cords to talk again. 12/30

Demonstrates Bell Laboratory wonders. Sergius P. Grace, Vice-President...

A black and white photo of a man holding a microphone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gathering meteorological data from stratosphere. Dr. L.F. Curtiss, of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, is shown here with part of the equipment he uses in experiments using radio to gather meteorological data at great altitudes. The complete radio apparatus for attachment to a balloon weighs less than two pounds, and preliminary trials show that the signals can be heard clearly at altitudes of 14 miles and at distances of 80 miles. A direction finder [...]bles experimenters to determine the location [...] he balloon the instant the radio wave is [...] out. 10/17/35

Gathering meteorological data from stratosphere. Dr. L.F. Curtiss, of ...

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Albuquerque, New Mexico. An apparatus for shortening drawbars in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad blacksmith shop. Repeated blows from the hammer at the heated end will shorten the bar to the desired length

Albuquerque, New Mexico. An apparatus for shortening drawbars in the A...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Scientific apparatus used by Lavoisier in studying chemical reactions in combustion of substances, including mercury, top right] / Paulze Lavoisier, sculpt.

[Scientific apparatus used by Lavoisier in studying chemical reactions...

Illus. in: Traite elementaire de chimie / Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Paris : Cuchet, 1789, plate 4. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 187.

Plan of air ducts, heating and ventilating apparatus

Plan of air ducts, heating and ventilating apparatus

U.S. General Post Office? (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

MINE RESCUE APPARATUS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

MINE RESCUE APPARATUS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Rennes. The American Red Cross conducted a school for the re-education of French mutiles at Rennes, France. A competition was held, the men working with apparatus. They are shown here hoeing, one man with his right arm missing and the other using the apparatus in place of the left arm, lost in battle

Rennes. The American Red Cross conducted a school for the re-education...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles [Henri A. Coles](Miss Harper Rey) Date published: 1919 Feb. 14. Gift; Ameri... More

Apparatus machine by radio - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Apparatus machine by radio - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Apparatus machine by radio - Public domain dedication image

Apparatus machine by radio - Public domain dedication image

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Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Coal pusher apparatus with coal storage

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. Co...

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Village hall, Garden City, Long Island. Firehouse with apparatus I

Village hall, Garden City, Long Island. Firehouse with apparatus I

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[Girls in bloomers on climbing apparatus, Western High School, Washington, D.C.]

[Girls in bloomers on climbing apparatus, Western High School, Washing...

No. 31. In album: Washington, D.C., school survey : Western High School. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Air conditioned hen house is latest. Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. Biddy increases the production of eggs in an air-conditioned hen house, U.S. Department of Agriculture experts have discovered after extensive experiments. The first temperature controlled maternity ward for hens has just been put into operation at the governmental experimental farm here. The hens have voiced their approval by laying more frequently; also a more uniform egg. R.B. Nestler poultry expert, is pictured as he removes the eggs from the automatic chute in the new room. Note the air conditioning apparatus on the ceiling, 8/9/38

Air conditioned hen house is latest. Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. Biddy i...

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Nurse instructor, left, shows "refresher course" student the new Wagenstein apparatus in use in post operative cases. Retired nurses brush up on latest techniques through this course before again going on active duty

Nurse instructor, left, shows "refresher course" student the new Wagen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Pumping station engineer with an apparatus known variously as "pig", "go-devil", and "scraper". It is sent through the eight inch pipeline at intervals for cleaning, to remove obstructions and to detect leaks

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Pumping station engineer with an apparatus known vari...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Argentine, near Kansas City, Kansas. Checking the telegraph apparatus in the telegraph room of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad office building

Argentine, near Kansas City, Kansas. Checking the telegraph apparatus ...

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Sportsmens depot established in 1826. John Krider, gun maker, dealer in fishing tackle and all kinds of sporting apparatus, N.E. corner 2nd & Walnut sts., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sportsmens depot established in 1826. John Krider, gun maker, dealer i...

Print shows an advertisement for gun maker John Krider of Philadelphia, with two hunters sitting, holding their guns, with their dogs, and a man fishing on the bank of a stream, as the central image enclosed by... More

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodney French Boulevard, 550 feet west of main entrance, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodne...

Significance: The Fire Apparatus Building retains its integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship. It was built in connection with the development of Fort Rodman during the Endicott Period, an im... More

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodney French Boulevard, 550 feet west of main entrance, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodne...

Significance: The Fire Apparatus Building retains its integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship. It was built in connection with the development of Fort Rodman during the Endicott Period, an im... More

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a possible 25, on Oct. 27, seven weeks after school opened, and a few of the beet workers families have already finished and returned to town. The school is very well equipped and well kept, with a capable man teacher, good playground apparatus, etc. Location: Brush, Colorado / Photo by Hine.

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a pos...

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[Underwater breathing apparatus]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

[Underwater breathing apparatus]. Book illustration from Library of Co...

Print shows a device with a long tube for breathing, worn over the head, to allow a soldier to walk underwater; also shows the device being used in the background. Illus. in: Fl. Vegetii Renati De re militari ... More

Belin telephoto apparatus - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Belin telephoto apparatus - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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M[...] apparatus for aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

M[...] apparatus for aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new experimental radio apparatus with which the Dept. hopes soon to make possible night flying. The little lead fish at the bottom of the picture is let out while flying and carries with it a long copper wire which serves as the antennae. A sound-proof covering over the pilot's set and transmitter is necessary and the electricity is manufactured by a generator run by a free fan. Experiments conducted at Bolling Field, Wash. Aug. 2, 1922

Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new exper...

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Add record depth reached by Navy divers. Lieut. A.R. Benhke, Medical Corps, U.S.N., uses the van slyke gas analysis apparatus in extracting gases from body fluids following the dives. Analysis of body fluid is made immediately after each diver comes from the water, 8/9/38

Add record depth reached by Navy divers. Lieut. A.R. Benhke, Medical C...

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A milk tester for the Triple B milk testing associations. His equipment includes test tubes, pipettes, a centrifuge and laboratory apparatus seldom found on the farm. Black Hawk County, Iowa

A milk tester for the Triple B milk testing associations. His equipmen...

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Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yards for analysing solutions of metals used in locomotives and the railroad plant, in general, Chicago, Ill.

Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yards ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train, railroad, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. The x-ray plate is contained in the apparatus in front of the girl. The apparatus in the foreground contains an x-ray tube

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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A black and white photo of two men working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men working on a machine. Office of War...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. How'd it go today with the boys at Bataan? These employees of a Midwest heater company take time out for lunch and the news before resuming work on installing assembly apparatus for M-4 tank bogie wheels in a company warehouse

Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. How'd it go today with the boys a...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Oliver Coleman has apparatus for recording in his home on Indiana Avenue. He uses it to record the work of his students and his own drumming

Chicago, Illinois. Oliver Coleman has apparatus for recording in his h...

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Tulsa, Oklahoma. Putting "scraper" or "go-devil", a cleaning apparatus, into the pipe at the pumping station of the Great Lakes pipeline to send it up to the Barnsdall station, fifty miles north

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Putting "scraper" or "go-devil", a cleaning apparatus...

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Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. A centrifuging room and apparatus used in making blood plasma

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. A...

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Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodney French Boulevard, 550 feet west of main entrance, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodne...

Significance: The Fire Apparatus Building retains its integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship. It was built in connection with the development of Fort Rodman during the Endicott Period, an im... More

[Inflated balloon with filling apparatus attached to barrels of gas]
Wireless apparatus at Post Office Dept.

Wireless apparatus at Post Office Dept.

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More awakening of the Turks. New motor fire apparatus to replace the hand pump and runners of ancient times. The first day this was used after the Allied withdrawal, it passed through a couple of houses on a street corner The watch tower of Stamboul. On watch here for fires and enemies ; This boy uses his eyes to wriggle extra "baksheesh" out of his customers.

More awakening of the Turks. New motor fire apparatus to replace the h...

Photographs show a fire truck in the street, a watchtower and a shoe shine boy with box, Istanbul,Turkey. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1409 (top left image), no. 1411 (top right ... More

Col. M.A. DeLaney, U.S.A., the man who has been treating Pres. Coolidge on May 22nd while the Pres. was in the air-tight room receiving the chlorine gas treatment for his cold. Col. DeLaney is watching the apparatus that denotes the amount of gas being sent into the air-tight chamber

Col. M.A. DeLaney, U.S.A., the man who has been treating Pres. Coolidg...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vintage activities at Richon-le-Zion, Aug. 1939. Refrigerating apparatus in the cellars (Wine refrigerators in action during fer[mentation][?]

Vintage activities at Richon-le-Zion, Aug. 1939. Refrigerating apparat...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hotel Bryant Coffee Bar, Broadway and 54th St., New York City. Counter view of apparatus

Hotel Bryant Coffee Bar, Broadway and 54th St., New York City. Counter...

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Morse apparatus and alphabet - Public domain book illustration

Morse apparatus and alphabet - Public domain book illustration

Print shows apparatus for sending and receiving coded telegraph messages, with the alphabet and numbers in "Morse code." Illus. in: Knight's American mechanical dictionary. New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1877, ... More

[Transatlantic Panorama Pavilion, the Palace of the French Navy and the Life-saving Apparatus and Navigation exhibitions, along Seine waterfront, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Transatlantic Panorama Pavilion, the Palace of the French Navy and th...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wheat streaming into wagon, showing patent apparatus for measurng the grain, Illinois

Wheat streaming into wagon, showing patent apparatus for measurng the ...

Man with shovel seated on wagon. Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 6403. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farm machinery and implements; Ill. Misc. 1905; ... More

Men engage at apparatus of Zodiac dirigible balloon

Men engage at apparatus of Zodiac dirigible balloon

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King's birthday celebration. Army truck mounted with radio receiving apparatus

King's birthday celebration. Army truck mounted with radio receiving a...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detail of apparatus used for determining moisture content of dehydrated vegetables at the regional agricultural research laboratory. Albany, California

Detail of apparatus used for determining moisture content of dehydrate...

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Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Children playing on apparatus in one of the numerous playgrounds situated in shady groves

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Children playing on appa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oliver Coleman has apparatus for recording in his home on Indiana Avenue. He uses it to record the work of his students and his own drumming. Chicago, Illinois

Oliver Coleman has apparatus for recording in his home on Indiana Aven...

Public domain photograph of musician playing music, musical instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. In their daily outdoor play, children have wheel toys to ride and pull, climbing, digging and swinging apparatus

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Albuquerque, New Mexico. An apparatus for shortening drawbars. The drawbar has just been taken out of the forge and is being lowered into place in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad blacksmith shop

Albuquerque, New Mexico. An apparatus for shortening drawbars. The dra...

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The philosopher's stone! Gold & silver plating, by the electro-magnetic apparatus ... Alton. Printed at the Telegraph Office [1840?].

The philosopher's stone! Gold & silver plating, by the electro-magneti...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 35.

Apparatus and room in which dogs are killed by carbonic acid gas, Society for Animal Relief, Paris, France

Apparatus and room in which dogs are killed by carbonic acid gas, Soci...

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Submarines mine, apparatus attached to mine so that it may be examined & repaired in safety

Submarines mine, apparatus attached to mine so that it may be examined...

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Frozen fire apparatus, Equitable fire

Frozen fire apparatus, Equitable fire

Photo shows a fire at the Equitable Building, Pine Street, Brooklyn, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

[Man submerged in tank with breathing apparatus]

[Man submerged in tank with breathing apparatus]

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Tel Aviv. Cheese factory. Int[erior]. Cheese mixture submitted to high steam temperature (closed apparatus)

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Working with a maze of wires and sensitive apparatus, these girls assemble the electrical instruments such as gas gauges, oil gauges, light switches, and so forth, to what is known as the wire "harness" for Dodge Army trucks

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Working with a maze of wires and sensi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nurse instructor, left, shows "refresher course" student the new Wagenstein apparatus in use in post operative cases. Retired nurses brush up on latest techniques through this course before again going on active duty

Nurse instructor, left, shows "refresher course" student the new Wagen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mechanical milking apparatus on farm in Black Canyon Project. Canyon County, Idaho

Mechanical milking apparatus on farm in Black Canyon Project. Canyon C...

Public domain photograph of industry and equipment, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This worker is at the controls of an extruding machine, a powerful piece of apparatus in a brass and copper mill that pushes billets of metal usually heated red hot, through a die to form rods, tubes, angles, channels and other shapes. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This worker is at the control...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rough grind of flawless glass. The first rough grinding of optical glass for the delicate aiming apparatus of the big guns. A large eastern arsenal turns these out as well as ammunition

Rough grind of flawless glass. The first rough grinding of optical gla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Firehouse Station No. 4. Firemen on probation learning to use rescue apparatus

Washington, D.C. Firehouse Station No. 4. Firemen on probation learnin...

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Fort Madison, Iowa. Apparatus for testing diesel cylinder heads for cracks in the diesel head shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Water is forced into the head under pressure and with the aid of a small magnifying glass can be seen seeping out through any cracks

Fort Madison, Iowa. Apparatus for testing diesel cylinder heads for cr...

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Clovis, New Mexico. Refacing the tires of a locomotive with a Ledgerwood apparatus. The locomotive is drawn down the rails by a cable, while cutting edges inserted in the brake shoes does the refacing in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops

Clovis, New Mexico. Refacing the tires of a locomotive with a Ledgerwo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Signal apparatus] - Public domain architectural plan drawing

[Signal apparatus] - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Images of equipment. Title devised. Inscribed as indicators of objects: Flying light; foot light; wind shade. Printed on verso, stanza 8 of Signal corps song. Formerly Waud no. C-147. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (D... More

[Apparatus for shooting large arrows], engraving, Library of Congress

[Apparatus for shooting large arrows], engraving, Library of Congress

Illus. in: Poliorceticōn, sive De machinis, tormentis, telis, libri qvinqve ... Antverpiæ : Ex officina Plantiniana, apud I. Moretum, 1599. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western tech... More

[Microscope and other scientific apparatus]

[Microscope and other scientific apparatus]

Illus. in: Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon. / by R. Hooke .... London : Printed by J. Martyn and J. Alle... More

[Position of the First Battalion of the Second Division of the Fire Brigade with steam pump and rescue apparatus] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

[Position of the First Battalion of the Second Division of the Fire Br...

At the training grounds at Yıldız. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 5. In album: Fire Brigade personnel and equipment, barracks, hospitals, and factories, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. ... More

Boy working with electrical apparatus [telegraph]

Boy working with electrical apparatus [telegraph]

Public domain photograph related to development of telegraph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Life saving apparatus in use at coal mine, La Salle, Ill.

Life saving apparatus in use at coal mine, La Salle, Ill.

Men demonstrating types of resuscitation equipment, stretcher, lanterns, underground breathing gear. Photo by This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card... More

Bureau of Mines, life saving apparatus

Bureau of Mines, life saving apparatus

Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oyster inspecting fire apparatus
Leg saver. Chester Antos, student at Georgetown University medical school, photographed with the newly devised Emerson suction pressure apparatus which designers believe will prevent amputation in many cases. The mechanical "boot" is to be used in treatment of severe cases of peripheral vascular diseases. The device was developed by Dr. Louis A. Hermann of Cincinnati. By increasing and decreasing the air pressure alternatively, the "boot" tends to stimulate circulation through the leg. The pump boot is a gift to Georgetown University Hospital from an alumnus. 11/12/35

Leg saver. Chester Antos, student at Georgetown University medical sch...

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a bed. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potatoes coming through cleaning apparatus at the cellar where they are being sacked. Klamath County, Oregon

Potatoes coming through cleaning apparatus at the cellar where they ar...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Vice-President of her local, United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), Mary achieved the job of forelady by working as a hand at many varied operations. She has made a suggestion to conserve bakelite lamp bases, formerly discarded (a suggestion now in use at the plant), and is also the inventor of an apparatus which prevents short-circuiting during tests of lamps. Mary Petillo, forelady of a Newark, New Jersey factory making lamp bulbs and tubes for the Signal Corps, is an active member of her plant's Labor-Management drive to speed victory. She was elected from a plant personnel of 1700, 350 of them men

Vice-President of her local, United Electrical Radio and Machine Worke...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detail of cleaning apparatus on portable-type mechanical hop picker, Yakima Chief Hop Ranch, Yakima County, Washington

Detail of cleaning apparatus on portable-type mechanical hop picker, Y...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Member of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery pours up fresh milk. Notice the electric milking apparatus in his left hand. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho

Member of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery pours up fresh milk. Not...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detail of cleaning apparatus on portable-type mechanical hop picker, Yakima Chief Hop Ranch, Yakima County, Washington

Detail of cleaning apparatus on portable-type mechanical hop picker, Y...

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Fuel conservation. Conversion of furnace to coal from oil. In face of the drastic fuel oil shortage in the East and rationing of the supplies which are available, homeowners are urged, where possible, to convert oil burning furnaces to coal. First step is removing the oil burner apparatus

Fuel conservation. Conversion of furnace to coal from oil. In face of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Clovis, New Mexico. Refacing the tires of a locomotive with a Ledgerwood apparatus. The locomotive is drawn down the rails by a cable, while cutting edges inserted in the brake shoes does the resurfacing in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops

Clovis, New Mexico. Refacing the tires of a locomotive with a Ledgerwo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. For daily indoor play the children have dolls, blocks and climbing apparatus; they do clay work, painting, coloring, music and rhythmic exercise, and listening to stories

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Firehouse Station No. 4. Apparatus known to the firemen as the "joker". This system is used throughout the District of Columbia

Washington, D.C. Firehouse Station No. 4. Apparatus known to the firem...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By using a polarized light apparatus to take pictures of plastic models of turbine nuts and bolts, Dr. Hetenyi, Hungarian-born research engineer at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, has discovered how to make this fastening device up to forty per cent stronger. He found that nuts and bolts with broad shoulders and tapered bodies distribute stress on threads more evenly than do ordinary nuts and bolts

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By using a polarized light apparatus to take...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a possible 25, on Oct. 27, seven weeks after school opened, and a few of the beet workers families have already finished and returned to town. The school is very well equipped and well kept, with a capable man teacher, good playground apparatus, etc. Location: Brush, Colorado / Photo by Hine.

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a pos...

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[Exterior view of building with apparatus attached for experiment intended to create a vacuum by draining water from a globe attached to the top of the apparatus]

[Exterior view of building with apparatus attached for experiment inte...

Illus. in: P. Gasparis Schotti ... Technica curiosa, sive Mirabilia artis, libris XII comprehensa .... Norimbergæ : Sumptibus J. A. Endteri, & Wolfgangi junioris hæredum, excudebat J. Hertz, typographus herbip... More

"Fixing things" - a proper steering apparatus found / Th. Nast.

"Fixing things" - a proper steering apparatus found / Th. Nast.

Political cartoon showing Republican donkey tying cut-off tail of Democratic tiger.

Apparatus for pasteurizing milk in an up-to-date dairy

Apparatus for pasteurizing milk in an up-to-date dairy

No. 10774. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tests cold effects on airplanes. Donald Brooks, Automotive Engineer of the Bureau of Standards, examining the valves of the apparatus known as the humidifier, which enables Bureau experts to test the effect of cold upon airplanes

Tests cold effects on airplanes. Donald Brooks, Automotive Engineer of...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Nachlat Izhak. Pattern printing on fabrics. Preparation of original design. Printing table & original drying apparatus

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Lens contained in an apparatus for x-ray photographs

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Workers at the repicking or cleaning apparatus where a stationary-type picker is used for picking hops. Yakima County, Washington

Workers at the repicking or cleaning apparatus where a stationary-type...

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Fort Story cosat defense. Searching the sky for planes. Note the detector apparatus on his chest

Fort Story cosat defense. Searching the sky for planes. Note the detec...

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Mary Petillo, forelady of a Newark, New Jersey factory making lamp bulbs and tubes for the Signal Corps, is an active member of her plant's laboratory management committee. The committee, set up in cooperation with the War Production Board's drive to speed victory, was elected in Mary's plant from a personnel of 1700, 350 of them men. Vice-president of her local, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organization, Mary achieved the job of forelady by working working as a hand at many varied operations. She has made a suggestion to conserve bakelite lamp bases formerly discarded--a suggestion now in use at the plant--and is also the inventor of an apparatus which prevents short-circuiting during tests of lamps

Mary Petillo, forelady of a Newark, New Jersey factory making lamp bul...

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Tulsa, Oklahoma. Pumping station engineer with an apparatus known variously as "pig", "go-devil" and "scraper". It is sent through the eight inch pipeline at intervals for cleaning, to remove obstructions and to detect leaks

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Pumping station engineer with an apparatus known vari...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Firehouse Station No. 4. Probation fireman learning to use the apparatus used in fire fighting

Washington, D.C. Firehouse Station No. 4. Probation fireman learning t...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodney French Boulevard, 550 feet west of main entrance, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Fire Apparatus Building, South Rodne...

Significance: The Fire Apparatus Building retains its integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship. It was built in connection with the development of Fort Rodman during the Endicott Period, an im... More

Automatic ticker apparatus, New York Stock Exchange. Central control station

Automatic ticker apparatus, New York Stock Exchange. Central control s...

Photograph shows a central control station with several automatic ticker tape machines on tables. J258797 U.S. Copyright Office.

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