Impact Collection

Bus embedded in house, Blackstock Road, London
Bus embedded in the front of a house in Blackstock Road, London NW4, on 13 January 1974. The car in the foreground was shunted through a garden wall after being struck by the bus

A Game of Football in the Streets of London, c. 1314
Illustration of a game of football being played in the streets of London during the 14th century. Football of this time, played without rules in narrow medieval streets

Train collision, Maze Hill Station, SE London
Train collision and derailment at Maze Hill Station, SE London, 4 July 1958. Close-up of the point of impact. Date: 1958

Wold meteorite
Watercolour of the Wold meteorite, Yorkshire by Hariet Topham, 1797. Image from Sowerby Collection

Meteorite in Antarctica
A large meteorite found in the MacAlpine Hills, Antarctica in 1988

Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N6715A
Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N671SA (msn 67001), at the SBAC Farnborough Airshow, held between 1-8 September 1974. N6715A crashed while conducting a low-level aerobatic demonstration at the Farnborough

Comic postcard, Edinburgh Exhibition - man collides with woman Date: 20th century

Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. Date: 1875

CRYSTAL PALACE IN B+W
A distant view of the exhibition building showing its location in Hyde Park; visitors relax in the park after the overwhelming impact of the display... Date: 1851

Mitsubishi Ki-67 Peggy -this Japanese Army heavy bomber, first flown in December 1942, came too late to have much impact

Railways and Wild Boar
In Sweden, a herd of wild boar are panicked by a railway train plowing through their forest habitat

Johann Von Dreyse - 2
JOHANN NIKOLAUS VON DREYSE German inventor of the needle gun, in which the cartridge is exploded by the impact of a needle. Date: 1787 - 1867

Cornstalk Abstract
Maybe they are meant to be ears of corn, but who cares - this is a splendid jugendstil motif, restrained yet full of impact. Date: 1904

The Radio Widow
THE WIRELESS WIDOW The social impact of thecoming of radio takes many forms... Date: 1923

Old impact marks of volcanic bombs from an ancient volcano eruption basalt rocks at the East shore of Ilot Gabriel island Round Island and Ile aux Serpents island on horizon June North of Mauritius

Dornier Do 335A -a rare cine still of the first of its breed Fortunately this very fast twin propeller engined fighter was too late to have any impact in combat

The impact the war had on upper classes in Hyde Park
A slightly comedic illustration in Hyde Park, showing the effect of WW1 on the upper classes. Shown in rags, the only sign of their class is the style of their clothes with a suggestion that this was

Zeppelin bomb explosion diagram
A special Sphere diagram combining a photograph of bomb damage on a building in Antwerp with an added illustration of the bomb, dropped from a German Zeppelin, exploding on impact with the ground

British Hurricane ramming Italian raider by G. H. Davis
The new technique in air attack during the Second World War: a British Hurricane ramming an Italian raider in mid-air. The British pilot said of the incident

A pin-up beauty providing a Package of Oomph
A scantily-clad striking ginger-haired beauty providing a Package of Oomph! Date: early 1940s

Wold meteorite landing site
Pen and ink sketch showing an obelisk marking the landing site of the Wold Meteorite, Yorkshire, 1812. Image from the Sowerby Collection by Gerrit van Spaendonck

Variety of tektites

Glatton meteorite
Mr Arthur Pettifor holding the Glatton meteorite which fell in Cambridgeshire on 5th May 1991

The famous iceberg that slew the Titanic - Sphere
Double page spread from The Sphere, reporting on the eye witness account of Joseph Scarrott, a crew member on the Titanic

Meteor Crater - Arizona - 4150 feet across and 570 feet deep

SaF bomber attacking German barracks in North Africa; Secon
Aerial photograph showing a South African Air Force bomber attacking a German barracks at Mareth in Tunisia during the Spring of 1943

Franco-Prussian War. The Streets of Strasbourg during the S
Between August the 4th and 6th 1870 Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia defeated French Marshal MacMahon at Worth and Weissenburg, pushing him out of Alsace and surrounding Strasbourg

The Civil War in America: cottonburners in the neighbourhood
Cottonburning and the lack of cotton exports during the Civil war in America had a significant impact on British trade at this time. Date: 1862

Science / Instruments
Collision balls, used to demonstrate the laws of impact

Military Fashions 1914
The initial impact of the war on fashion i.e a source of style. Military taileur of hobble skirt & 3/4 jacket with flared skirt, Napoleonic collar & cuffs, braiding & epaulettes

Tunguska / Kulik Portrat
LEONID KULIK (1883 - 1942) Discovered the impact site, spent most his life unsuccessfully trying to prove it was a meteorite

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