Woman buying a ticket at Liverpool Street station, London, 17 June 1964.

Close-up view of Crater Galle on Mars, c 2004-2006.

Ivory 200 series dial telephone, c 1935.

Chat Moss, 1831.

Ivory 200 series dial telephone, c 1935.

Improved patent magneto-electric machine for nervous diseases, 1862.

'The automatic man', 27 January 1938. Rene

Wheatstone's automatic telegraph transmitter, 1858.

Sir Hiram S. Maxim with the first automatic gun.

Beach entertainer, c 1905.

Full Earth, 7th December 1972

Model F aerial automatic film camera, 1915-1921.