Record Collection (#42)

Fantasy Gramophone 1911
A girl listens as the gramophone issues flowery hearts Date: 1911

Farman Biplane Record
Henry Farman, an Englishman working in France, wins the Grand Prix for distance, at Reims, with a flight of 180 km in just over three hours Date: 27 August 1909

Thermometer on garden surface to measure ground temperature, Cumbria, England, august

Dairy farming, two women from National Milk Records looking at laptop computer in cow shed, England, may

Dairy farming, woman from National Milk Records taking sample from bulk milk tank, England, may

Flight height of birds, historical art
Flight height of birds. Coloured historical artwork showing the maximum flight heights of various birds. The scale down the left edge of the image gives the altitude in metres

Hottest day. Crowds of people at the beach. This is Brighton beach, England, on Sunday 10 August 2003, when the hottest temperature in the UK since records began was recorded (39 degrees Celsius)

Evidence of life on earth stored in Voyager 2

Soviet transpolar flight, July 1937
Soviet transpolar flight. Americans gathered around a Soviet ANT-25 single-engine monoplane on 15 July 1937, after it had flown non-stop from Moscow, USSR, to San Jacinto, California, USA

First overnight balloon flight, 1836
First overnight balloon flight. Historical artwork of the first overnight balloon flight, which used coal gas and took place from 7-8 November 1836

Phonovision, 1920s video disc, coloured photograph. This is a standard 78 rpm (revolutions per minute) gramophone disc, used by the Scottish engineer John Logie Baird (1888-1946)

Magnetic pickup cartridge of a record player. The cartridge holds the stylus or needle (not seen), which transforms the grooves in a record (black, lower centre) into sound

Phonograph
Gramophone record player

Edison phonograph - 1889
Edison phonograph. Prominent Frenchmen including Jules Janssen, who made the first film recording of the transit of Venus, testing an Edison phonograph in April 1889

Soviet transpolar flight crew, USA, 1937
Soviet transpolar flight crew, in Los Angeles, USA, in July 1937. From left to right, the three Soviet pilots are: Andrei Yumashev, Sergei Danilin and Mikhail Gromov

Earliest recording of a European meteorite
Earliest recorded European meteorite. Medieval manuscript page which is the first to record a meteorite (shown in woodcut image at top)

Medical records. Nurse carrying a pile of medical records. This could represent the burden of paperwork in hospitals

Footprint recovery
MODEL RELEASED. Footprint recovery. Forensics officer photographing a footprint at crime scene. After taking the photograph, a cast will be made of the print

Fingerprinting suspect
MODEL RELEASED. Fingerprinting suspect. Inked finger of a suspect who is being fingerprinted. The ink is applied to below the first knuckle

Recording thumbprint. Inked thumb of a suspect who is being fingerprinted. The ink is applied to the tip of the digit and this is rolled once over the paper to record a print of the whole surface

Record surface, SEM
Record surface. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of grooves on the surface of a record. The grooves in the plastic vary in shape

Record stylus playing record, SEM
Record stylus playing record. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the needle (stylus) of a record player in a groove on a record

False-colour SEM of stylus in groove of LP record
False-colour scanning electron micrograph of a diamond stylus travelling through the grooves of a long-playing, stereo record. The grooves are cut into a flat disc of polyvinyl chloride

Genetic information storage. Conceptual computer artwork representing the storage in digital form of data derived from genetic research

Tropical storm Zeta, 2nd January 2006
Tropical storm Zeta over the Atlantic Ocean on 2nd January 2006. Zeta was the 27th named storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, extending the already record-breaking season yet further

Record surface, light micrograph
Normarski differential interference contrast (DIC) light micrograph of the surface of a vinyl record, showing the grooves

Facemapping, artwork
Facemapping. Computer artwork of a grid system layered over a human face in order to create a digitised version of it

Biometric recognition, conceptual artwork
Biometric recognition, conceptual computer artwork

1893 Francis Galton criminal photograph
This Anthropometry photograph was taken of the polymath Francis Galton at age 71 when he visited Bertillous Criminal Identification Laboratory in Paris 1893

Weather balloon, 19th century

Bell X-1 supersonic aircraft
Charles Elwood " Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) English pronunciation: is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot

Sir Francis Drakes voyage 1585-1586. 16th century map showing the journey Sir Francis Drake made to the New World from 1585-1586

Fog and snow-covered UK, December 2010
Fog and snow-covered United Kingdom, December 2010. Satellite image of snow (dense white) and fog (greysish white, bottom) covering the UK during the cold spell in December 2010

Hospital medical records

Commodore Byron and Patagonians
Engraving depicting the meeting between John Byron and Patagonian tribespeople in 1741. Byrons ship, HMS Wager, had been shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia (now Argentina)

Breadfruit, 18th century plate
Breadfruit. Engraving of breadfruit, the fruit of the breadfruit tree (Artocarpus altilis). The breadfruit is a staple food of the Pacific

Fuegans in their hut, 18th century
Fuegians. Engraved plate depicting a group of Fuegians, the indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America

Polynesian artefacts, 18th century
Polynesian artefacts. Engraving of several artefacts seen by explorers in Tahiti. They ae (left to right): two chisels or gouges, an adze, an implement for crushing breadfruit into paste

Maori fortified town, 18th century
Maori own. Engraved plate showing a maori fortified town (or hippah) on the coast near Tolaga in New Zealand. Seen in the water are two boats, one rowed by British sailors (left)

Matavia Bay, Tahiti, 18th century
Tahiti. Engraving of the view across Matavia Bay, Otaheite (Tahiti), as seen from One Tree Hill. The tree is shown here and is a specimen of Erythrina tahitensis

Captain Wallace and Tahitians, 1767
Surrender of Tahiti. Engraved plate depicting the moment in 1767 when Queen Oberea of Tahiti surrendered the island to Captain Samuel Wallace, the first Westerner to make contact

Kangaroo, 18th century plate
Kangaroo. Engraved plate showing a kangaroo standing on some rocks. The name kangaroo derives from the local Aboriginal language of the area around the Endeavour River where they were first seen by

Fly swats, Polynesian, 18th century
Fly swats. Engraving depicting fly swats (or fly-flap, fly whik) used by Polynesian people to keep flies off the body. The one at centre is from Ohiteroa

Vinyl record. This is a 33rpm LP

JOE DIMAGGIO (1914-1999). American baseball player. About to kiss his signature baseball bat following the 1941 season, during which he hit safely in a record 56 consecutive games while playing for

AUTO RACING, 1910. American automobile racer Barney Oldfield setting a record speed of 131.7 miles-per-hour in his Blitzen Benz, at Daytona Beach, Florida, 1910

Talbot-Lago Race Record

Ferrari 250 GTO series 2
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