Developed Collection (#3)

Congreve / Earthworks
The rockets developed by William Congreve in 1804 are here shown fired from earthworks in bombardments Date: 1827

Rail / Britain / Waterloo
Waterloo Station and the surrounding area being developed. Date: 1848

John Curwen - English music educator
John Curwen (1816-1880), English music educator developed sol-fa system after Sarah Ann Glover. Bust portrait. Date: circa 1880

Fashion Show - Eatons British Ambassadors of Fashion
In November 1946, Eatons (a large Canadian Fashion Retailer) presented The British Ambassadors of Fashion. This show had been developed

Heinkel He 111H -ostensibly developed as an airliner, the He 111 proved itself it during the Spanish Civil War

Fairey IIIB on floats-the IIIs were to be developed well into the 1930s

Portrait of Fulton. Engraving
FULTON, Robert (1765-1815). North-American nautical engineer. Inventor who developed the first commercially successful steamboat

Portrait of Fulton. Oil
FULTON, Robert (1765-1815). North-American nautical engineer. Inventor who developed the first commercially successful steamboat

India - A winter morning view over the town, Darjeeling
Black and white. View from an elevated path over a town with Westernised buildings - the British developed the town of Darjeeling (famous for its tea) in the mid 19th century

Palawan Monitor Lizard - searches for food along a public path with its tongue outstretched (the tongue has a highly developed olfactory sense) (Varanus marmoratus)

By-products developed from coal by G. H. Davis
The enormous importance of coal as the basic element in vital war manufactures. A diagrammatic drawing showing a great variety of by-products developed from coal. Date: 1944

Crews for British night fighters by G. H. Davis
Seeing in the dark: stringent eyesight tests precede the selection of crews for British night fighters during the Second World War. The men selected have highly developed vision. Date: 1944

Underwater Cameraman
Underwater photography has now been developed into a fine art thanks to this diving cameraman in his special waterproof gear, diving to photograph the floor of a dock Date: September 1932

Boy with pet dog
Boy with Dog. Ceruti, Giacomo 1698-1767. Born in Milan, Ceruti trained there and absorbed the north Italian interest in still-life painting associated with the work of Caravaggio

Boy with Vegetables. Ceruti, Giacomo 1698-1767. Born in Milan, Ceruti trained there and absorbed the north Italian interest in still-life painting associated with the work of Caravaggio

A Boeing-developed air launched cruise missile is launched from a USAF Boeing B-52G Stratofortress, 58-0182, over the White Sands Missile Range during 1976. Date: 1976

George Cayleys governable parachute. Developed from a design for a man-carrying glider, called a governable parachute. Facsimile of the illustrations as they appeared in Mechanics magazine

A hydroplane model developed by Lawrence Hargrave

Livingston, Maxim, Gates, Grahame-White - Olympia Aero Exhib
Hendon, Londons first aerodrome, had been largely developed from 1910 by Claude Grahame-White, against the views of the newspaper media who had derided his earlier efforts to develop the airfield

1934 single-seater Maserati
The 1934 single-seater Maserati with 2.9 litre straight-eight engine represented (together with the corresponding Alfa Romeo)

Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883. Date 1883

Starting blocks - 1948 Olympics
New adjustable, aluminium starting blocks developed by Mr. H. Rottenburg and used at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Date: 1948

Starting blocks - 1948 Olympic Games
New adjustable, aluminium starting blocks developed by Mr. H. Rottenburg and used at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Date: 1948

A patrol of boy scouts marching to the rendezvous at the commencement of operations. The Scouts field day at Aldershot has developed into a splendidly organised monthly meeting

Medieval Siege Weapons
Mediavel siege weapons are little developed from Roman times. A movable castle gives a platform for bowmen, and two cannons will bombard the castle with cannonballs. Date: 14th - 15th centuries

Origin Species, CH Bennett, man of finance - shark
Alls fish that comes. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of man of finance from a shark. Shark fins have developed into a swallow-tail coat, his own tail into a pair of legs

Prince John of Wales (1905-1919), youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, pictured here wearing a dress. Until after the First World War it was normal to dress small boys

Bust Enhancement Advertisement, 1916
Advertisement for a bust enhancement product sold in Britain, 1916. The advertisement headline reads Flat-chested for 15 years, she developed her bust six inches in thirty days

Professor Arthur Korn, with his telegraph photographic machi
Professor Arthur Korn with his tele-photographic apparatus. Korn developed a method of transmitting photographs through telephone wires. In 1907 he produced the first facsimile telegraph

Venus Sailing Ship
The inventive folk on Venus have doubtless developed ingenious solutions for navigating their oceans : this sailing vessel has wooden sails like Venetian blinds

Life on the Stars 2
Sirius, brightest star in the Canis Major constellation, may well have developed a highly advanced civilisation with sophisticated technology

Egyptian Writing
Egyptian hieroglyphs developed the scope of visual symbols to an extraordinary degree, graphic as well as decorative

Arabian Script
Apart from its practicality, the Arabs developed the art of calligraphy to supreme heights, using it to ornament buildings and objets d art

Christian Diors Spring Fashion Show, 1948
Christian Berard, the Surrealist painter, seated on the floor, gazing at passing gowns during Christian Diors Spring Fashion show, 1948

Mauretania
The Mauretania, built in 1906 at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the time, she was the largest liner in the world at 32, 000 gross tons

Demonstration of the Dracone, Southampton, 1958
Photograph of the Dracone, a flexible towed trailer for the transport of fluids lighter than water, Southampton, 19th September 1958

Jablochkoffs electric light apparatus
Diagrams showing Jablochkoffs candle lamp. Paul Jablochkoff (1847-1894) was a Russian telegraph engineer who would rise to the post of director of telegraphs between Moscow and Kursk

Ayrton and Perry
Portrait engravings of Professor William Ayrton and Professor John Perry, electrical engineers. Ayrton held the post of Professor of Natural Philosophy

William Flinders Petrie
SIR WILLIAM MATTHEW FLINDERS PETRIE English Egyptologist. Developed principle of sequence dating of potsherds

Gramme Dynamo / 1870
A dynamo (electricity generator) developed by Belgian engineer Zenobe Gramme (1826-1901) in 1870

Hydrogen for Balloons
Henri Giffard developed a process for the preparation of hydrogen gas for air balloons and dirigibles. His first dirigible flight took place in 1852 from Paris to Trappes

Eastman Camera / 1887
A rendition of the first Kodak camera, developed by George Eastman

Wtg Morton / Colour
WILLIAM THOMAS GREEN MORTON American dentist who developed the use of ether

Farman / Biplane Cig Card
Henri Farman, French aviator, and his Farman Biplane, which he developed with his brother Maurice

X-Ray Tube / Vickers / 1936
Million volt X-ray tube; developed by Metropolitan Vickers; installed in St. Bartholomews Hospital

Fieseler Flying Wing
One of the few practicable delta-wing projects is this German Fieseler F-3 Wespe (Wasp) - very advanced for its day, but never developed into a fighting machine

Swan in Laboratory
sir JOSEPH WILSON SWAN chemist and electrician who developed a primitive electric light (1860), invented the dry photographic plate, and other important developments

Quick-Hitch Harness / 1881
Shortly after 1880 the quick hitch harness was developed, allowing faster response to call-outs by the fire brigade

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