Minute Collection (#5)

Picture No. 10865272
Birth of Tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) embryo enters pouch after a 2 minute climb. Australia Date:

Armistice Silence
1919: The scene on Oxford Street, London, during the two minutes silence on Armistice Day. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Boeing 247s of United Air Lines
Luxury at three miles a minute: Comfort goes hand in hand with speed in the new high-speed Boeing 247s of United Air Lines

Montigny mitrailleuse, rapid fire gun introduced by French during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. 37 barrels, operated by 5 men could deliver 482 rounds per minute. From The Graphic, London, 1870

Aubrey Eneass of Boston solar motor. Demonstrated at Edwin Cawstons ostrich far Pasadena, California. A reflector 33 feet (10.05 metres) in diameter lined with 1

Sergeant Ezra Lee making a dive in Turtle in 1776. Submarine by David Bushnell (1742-1824). Air sufficient for 30 minute submersion. Propeller turned by handle and rudder moved by another

Portrait of Prince George of Denmark Composed Entirely of Minute Writing, 1860 Engraving

Portrait of Queen Anne Composed Entirely of Minute Writing, 1860 Engraving

Time is money, conceptual artwork F006 / 8743
Time is money, conceptual artwork

LFB strength test for recruits
LFB strength test -- every recruit must carry a man of approximately his own weight 100 yards in one minute

Charlotte Fire Department vehicle, North Carolina, USA, August 1935. It was the first enclosed Sedan-type fire appliance in America -- a six-cylinder engine of 160 horsepower with a pumping capacity

LFB firefighter with new motor pump
LFB firefighter at HQ with newly delivered motor pump fitted with a six-cylinder engine, pumping capacity about 930 gallons per minute, 11 April 1938

Fire engine and crew, LCC-London Fire Brigate
A fire engine and its crew at Southwark HQ -- the first pneumatic tyred appliance, commissioned in April 1928, with a Dennis Tamini pump capacity of 500 gallons per minute

Cheirolepis, fossil fish
A fossil fish from the Old Red Sandstone with minute square scales and a single dorsal fin

Thrip in amber
A thrip, a small to minute sucking insect seen here preserved in Dominican amber. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene

United Kingdom, Great Britain; England; London. Famous Big Ben clocktower, a London landmark

UK, London. Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament with Iconic London Red Bus

The fair trade minute men. Illustration shows Sereno E. Payne in the role of British Major John Pitcairn, commander of an occupying troop of British soldiers in Massachusetts in 1775

Safeguard your home - always disconnect cord when leaving iron even for a minute. Poster promoting home safety. Date 1940

The Federal Theatre Div. of WPA. presents Ten minute alibi by Anthony Armstrong A startling mystery in 3 acts. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Ten minute alibi at the Waterloo

Pacing horse Billy Boyce of St. Louis: as he appeared at Buffalo N.Y. Aug 1st 1868 pacing the last half mile in the second heat in 1 minute 5 1/4 seconds

First call - I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always be proudest of those who answered the first call. Poster showing Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer. Date c1917

Make every minute count for Pershing. Poster showing a man working in a shipyard. Date 1917

Webers Parisian widows up to the minute. Date c1897

Long-range view of flight 69, in which Orville covered a distance of 358 feet in 1 minute and 31 seconds, large tree in the foreground, machine in the background; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio

A mile a minute. Date c1891

Hoyts A midnight bell laughter every minute. Date 1898

The Minute-Men of the Revolution
The Minute-Men or militia of the American Revolution. Date: 1876

Sand timer. This device is used to measure a set period of time by the flow of sand (blue) from one chamber to the other through a narrow gap

Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball
Lady, Mimi, preparing her last minute fancy dress for the Three Arts Ball of 1923

Brazil. A Gold Washing. Gold Dust
Engraving of grains of gold, oval in shape like minute coins

A Land-rush in the United States. A Minute after the signal
Horses and wagons of all sorts take the participants in the land-rush to stake a claim for their plot. The land on which Arkansas City was to be built had belonged to the Cherokees until they were

The threads of the railway timetable system. Arranging the running of the railway service, each section of the board represents one hour, which inturn is subdivided into five minute sections

Railway ticket printing machine
A hand leaver ticket printing machine, tickets are printed on every stroke with a consecutive number and discharged in a receiver below. The machine is capable of printing 200 tickets per minute

Cosmic Mutation
Minute fluctuations in the cosmic rays which strike our planet and cause evolution (!) could lead to mutations which would not be advantageous to life as we know it

Fashionable flappers
Two young women, dressed in up-to-the-minute knee length dresses pose on a verandha or balcony under the light of a crescent moon

Popes oscillating engine
Engraving of a cross-section of Popes oscillating engine. The engine made 70 revolutions per minute with the engine power calculated to be that of four horses

Last Minute Mascara
A young woman applies some last minute mascara, as she looks in the mirror over the fireplace before going out

Malcolm Campbell and Blue Bird II
Photograph showing Malcolm Campbell next to his Blue Bird II after breaking the world land speed record of 245.736 mph (over four miles a minute)

Who will first drive two miles a minute? Motor driver Resta
Illustration showing the driver Resta covering a half-mile in 17.372 seconds (or at a speed of 103.615 miles an hour) at Brooklands

Making Toys at Factory
In a London factory, two women workers attend to the last minute orders for Christmas; here a stack of toy locomotive engines await dispatch

Orpheus Loses Her
Orpheus almost succeeds in rescuing his wife Eurydice from the Underworld, but at the last minute he looks back, which is the one thing he has been told he must not do

Orpheus Rescues Eurydice
Orpheus tries to rescue his wife Eurydice from the Underworld, but he mustn t look back as they go : at the last minute he turns to check shes still there... alas !

Coin Presses at Mint
The coining presses are capable of striking coins of any denomination at the rate of one hundred and twenty per minute

Wright Plane 1908
Wilbur Wright makes a last minute check before taking to the air with a passenger

Pre Andree Departure
Andree, with Strindberg and Fraenkel, make last-minute preparations at Spitzbergen for their flight : in a few moments they will be on their way to the North Pole

Merryweather Fire Engine
One of two motor fire engines completed by Merryweathers in 1927. This vehicle is a six- wheeled version, with a Hatfield pump capable of delivering 400 gal a minute

Mamas Advice
Mama gives her daughter some last-minute advice and reassurance

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