Fuse Collection

Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus for Saving Lives from Shipwr
Engraving showing Board of Trade equipment for use to help shipwrecked sailors, 1886. The items are (from left to right, top to bottom)

Women workers, World War I
Women workers packing fuse heads in the Coventry Ordnance Works during World War I

David Lloyd George (1863-1945) Introducing the Munitions Bil
Illustration showing David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, then Minister of Munitions, delivering a speech to the House of Commons on the Munitions Bill

Comic Valentines Postcard - Old Maid about to be blown up
Comic Valentines Postcard - Some seriously racey language punning against an image of an Old Maid about to be blown up. 1908

Tombs in Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall and Westminster Bridge. Young man pointing to a Latin inscription on a stone tomb in Westminster Abbey 52

Soldier of the time of King James I armed with a caliver or arquebus, 17th century. Copperplate engraving by N.C. Goodnight from Francis Groses Military Antiquities respecting a History of

Front cover, The Electric Guide, 8th Edition
Front cover, The Electric Guide, 8th (Abridged) Edition, by Arthur L Golding. Date: circa 1930s

Photograph showing a time-fuse from a German shrapnel-shell which burst over British lines. Date: 1915

Types of grenades in WWI
The Marten Hale hand grenade, which can be also fitted to any type of service rifle. Hale time grenade, bomb is thrown, the ignition of the time-fuse does not occur until the grenade reaches a

French bracelet grenade, which hooked around the throwers wrist with a strap or thong. Innocuous while in the mans hand, the jerk as the grenade extends the strap

WWI British 18 pounder high explosive fuse
First World War British 18 pounder high explosive fuse.. Trench Art

Florence Upton playing cards - Weg with Fuse. circa 1900s

Musketeer of the Infantry of Louis XIV blowing the fuse of t
France. Army of the 18th century. Musketeer of the Infantry of Louis XIV blowing the fuse of the musket. Colored engraving

A Smiths H823 clock encased in a German 77 mm shellcase
A Smiths H823 clock encased in a German 77 mm. shellcase mounted on an AEG 15 HZ 14 fuse and resting on a German Howitzer shellcase base. Trench Art

Engaged in Making Progress, WW1
Engaged in Making Progress, three British Gunners at work on the Western Front during the First World War, loading shells into a field gun. The man on the left is setting a time fuse. Date: 1914

The secret of the German offensive 1918
This diagram shows several types of grenades the Germans were using during World War One, Besozzi grenade which had a 5 seconds time fuse, Pear-shaped grenade

Assembling fuses 1916
Munition workers in World War One, packing fuse heads. 1916

William Peel throwing a live shell
Captain William Peel (1824 - 1858) depicted in the act of bravery that won his first Victoria Cross during the Crimean War

Lloyd George in Commons
David Lloyd George, at this time Minister of Munitions, exhibits a high-explosive fuse in the House of Commons

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