Control Collection (#42)

Pollution control
MODEL RELEASED. Pollution control. Technician inflating a boom on a shingle beach during a training exercise. A boom is an inflatable piece of equipment used in the containment of oil spills

Railway signalman, 19th century
Railway signalman operating train track switches and holding a furled signal flag. The first mechanised and centralised railway switching system dates from 1856

Jacquard loom, 19th century
Jacquard loom. This device for weaving textiles was invented in 1804 by the French weaver and inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834)

Internet censorship, conceptual artwork

Apollo lunar module cabin mock-up
Mock-up of the Apollo lunar module cabin, showing two triangular windows, a facsimile of the control panel and astronauts hand-controllers, and the exit hatch below

Aircraft flight controls
Aircraft flight control display at the 2011 Paris Air Show. Controls include (from left to right) elevator and trim, emergency brake (black and yellow stripes)

Nuclear bomb control console, Russia
The control console for the detonation of the first nuclear bomb is displayed in the nuclear weapons museum in the Russian Federal Nuclear Center in Nizhny Novgorod

The Earth held by a human hand
Earth held by a human hand. Conceptual composite image of the control humans have over the Earth

Tram electrical systems, 19th century
Tram electrical systems, 19th-century artwork. Electrification of trams (also called streetcars) took place in the 1880s and 1890s

Nuclear missile launch lights
Launching a nuclear missile. Lights on part of a control panel at a strategic missile launch training centre in Russia. The text on the lights translates to " launch sequence started"

Sewage sludge burning plant
Sewage disposal. View of pipework at a sewage sludge combustion plant. Combustion is a common method of dealing with sewage sludge

Liquid nitrogen fire appliance controls
Fire fighting. Control valves of a liquid nitrogen fire fighting vehicle. Called the AGT-4000, this is intended for fires in contained areas

Crane truck control panel
Crane control panel

Controls of a metro train in Russia
Train controls. The cab of a metro train at its depot. This cab has been retrofitted with modern controls. This makes the train safer and more comfortable to operate

Ships radio, 1914
Ships radio. At left is part of the tuning apparatus. At right, is the detector and the radio transmission controls and coils

Gas compressor station in Belarus
Gas compressor. View of a natural gas compressor station. Such stations are sited along natural gas distribution pipelines

Insulated propellant tank
Propellant tank for a satellite wrapped in insulating foil, otherwise known as multi-layer insulation (MLI). This helps to maintain the temperature of the propellant independent of the external

Russian spacecraft computer
Russian space computer. View of an Argon-16 computer, of the type used on the Russian Soyuz T-2 spacecraft. This computer was used to control the docking

Assembling equipment in a power station
Electricity generation. Workers assembling part of a turbine generator at a power station. Photographed at Kaliningrad, Russia

Checking TV circuit board components
Television manufacture. Workers checking components for use in plasma screen televisions. Photographed at the Samsung factory in the Kaluga Region, Russia

Cytology laboratory. Close-up of a technician operating a fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) machine. FACS is a specialised type of flow cytometry

Turbine hall at a power station
Electricity generation. View across the turbine hall of a power station. The turbine hall is where high pressure steam from the boilers is fed into turbines that are connected to generators

Digital Production monitoring panel
Desalination plant. Digital Production monitoring panel. This facility turns salt water into drinking water using the Reverse Osmosis Process

Testing motor fuel
Testing fuel. Samples of fuel from a petrol station being checked for quality. Here a sample of petrol is heated to determine its flash point

Power station control room
Israel, Hadera, The Orot Rabin coal operated power plant the central control room. All facility activities are monitored and controlled from this room

Eggs used in vaccine production
Vaccine production. Chicken eggs used in the production of influenza vaccines. The eggs act as a culture medium for the antigen for the specific influenza virus

Overpopulation, conceptual image. Artwork of a crowd of human couples representing overpopulation of the Earth. The Earths population grew rapidly in the 20th century due to increased healthcare

Surveillance, conceptual image

Auto-louvre in domestic greenhouse. Opens and closes automatically depending on the ambient temperature

Wireless thermostat 2 C009 / 9146
MODEL RELEASED. Wireless thermostat. Householder handling a wireless programmable thermostat for controlling a central heating system

1778 Falkland Islands Wolf Fox Extinct
1778 " The Wolf Fox of Faulklands Islands", a copperplate engraving from Commodore Byrons " An account of a Voyage Round the World"

Prokaryotic mechanosensitive ion channel molecule. Computer model showing two views of the molecular structure of a Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance (MscL)

New York police crowd control barriers
New York policeman leaning on crowd control barrier

Pumping engines, 19th century
Engraved plate showing diagrams of various pumping engines. These are steam engines designed to pump water from deep underground in mines

Barn Owl coop
Israel, Hula Valley, Barn Owl (Tyto alba) coop in the fields. The Barn Owl is used by the farmers in Israel as a natural pest control

New York policeman leaning on barrier
New York policeman leaning on crowd control barrier

Bioreactor. Small-scale bioreactor used for studying bacteria. Bioreactors are devices that maintain a specific environment to allow organisms or their derivative substances to undergo chemical

Remote control

Scanning electron microscopy
MODEL RELEASED. Scanning electron microscopy. Researcher operating a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Scanning electron microscopes use electrons to view objects at magnifications much higher than

Farmers spraying pesticide on rice paddy
Farmers spraying pesticide on a rice paddy. Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the worlds most important crops

Firefighters in cherry pickers controlling a fire within a furniture factory. Photographed in Moscow, Russia

Serotonin N-acetyl transferase molecule. Computer model showing the molecular structure of the four sequence motifs (coloured) that make up the arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase (aNAT) complex

Glucagon hormone molecule. Computer model showing the structure of the human hormone glucagon. Atoms are colour-coded spheres (carbon: grey, nitrogen: blue, and oxygen: red)

Atrial natriuretic peptide molecule. Computer model showing the structure of a molecule of the hormone atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)

Calcitonin hormone molecule. Computer model showing the structure of the human hormone calcitonin. Atoms are colour-coded spheres (carbon: dark grey, hydrogen: light grey, nitrogen: blue)

Tobacco processing quality control. Testing being carried out in a tobacco processing plant quality control laboratory. This laboratory is operated by the Russian company Donskoi Tabak

Pancreatic hormone molecule. Molecular model showing the secondary structure of the hormone known as pancreatic polypeptide (PP)

Corticotropin-releasing factor complex
Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) complex. Molecular model showing the structure of the human hormone and neurotransmitter CRF in complex with its receptor

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