Mercury Collection (page 4)

Pompeii - Italy - Strada di Mercurio - Archway. Date: circa 1910s

Paris - L Avenue des Champs Elysses - Les Chevaux de Marly ( Horses restrained by grooms, known as The Marly Horses ) - now in the Louvre Museum, Paris. Date: circa 1910s

Mercury - Filton House, Bristol Aero Engine Department
Mercury relief on Filton House, the administrative offices of the Bristol Aeroplane, Co Ltd. c.1936

Bristol Type 118, K2873 was R-3, used for endurance testing of the Mercury V radial engine

de Havilland DH86, G-ACVY, Mercury, of Railway Air Services at Croydon

Short S20 Mayo upper component G-ADHJ Mercury
Short S20 Mayo upper component, G-ADHJ, Mercury

Handley Page Halifax VI RG815 Mercury
Handley Page Halifax VI, RG815, Mercury of the RAF Empire Radio School. September 1946. Date: 1946

New Type BTH magneto installation on Bristol Mercury rear cover

The fuselage of Lt Spenser Greys two-seat Mercury III outside the Balm Road, Leeds, works ready for despatch to Brooklands in December 1911. Date: 1911

B C Hucks fuelling the Mercury I
B.C. Hucks fuelling the Mercury I before the Filey-Scarborough flight on 17 May 1911. Date: 1911

Ham - a 37-pound chimpanzee - Americas first astronaut
Ham - a 37-pound chimpanzee - became Americas first astronaut when he was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Redstone (MR-2) suborbital flight on 31 January 1961

Miss Sam prior to being launched in a Mercury capsule from Wallops Test Station on a Little Joe 1-B (LJ-1B) on 21January 1960. Date: 1960

Short-Mayo composite aircraft S21 Maia G-ADHK
Short-Mayo composite aircraft, S21 Maia, G-ADHK, and S20 Mercury, G-ADHJ

Bristol Bulldog IIIA R-5 fitted with a Mercury IVS 2 radial
Bristol Bulldog IIIA, R-5, fitted with a Mercury IVS.2 radial

Bristol Bulldog II J9591 in use as a Mercury testbed
Bristol Bulldog II, J9591, in use as a Mercury testbed, is fitted with a Mercury IVA with a special exhaust ring and cylinder helmets

de Havilland DH86 Express Air Liner G-ACVY Mercury
de Havilland DH86 Express Air Liner, G-ACVY Mercury, of Railway Air Services

Hawker Hart K3020 powered by a Bristol Mercury VIII radial
Hawker Hart, K3020, powered by a Bristol Mercury VIII radial and fitted with a Rotol propeller

An Atlas D launch vehicle on Pad 14 for the second attempt to place an unmanned Mercury spaceceaft into Earth orbit. August 1961. Date: 1961

John H Glenn climbs out of his Mercury space capsule
John H. Glenn climbs out of his Mercury space capsule, Friendship 7, after his daily checkout. 13 February 1962. Date: 1962

A Sikorsky UH-34 helicopter lifts the Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, out of the Atlantic following the first US sub-orbital spaceflight carrying astronaut Alan B. Shepard. 5 May 1961. Date: 1961

The Mercury-Redstone rocket that carried Virgil Grissom on the second US manned sub-orbital spaceflight. The Mercury capsule was named Liberty Bell 7

Avro Lincoln B2 RE414 Mercury II
Avro Lincoln B2, RE414, Mercury II, used by the Empire Radio School, Debden

Astronomical Observations. 1711. Series of eight panels (51 x 35 cm. each one) dedicated to the planets. Detail of the pictures of the Moon (left), Mercury (center) and Venus. Baroque art

Mercury by RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Flemish art. Oil on canvas

Mercury and Argus, 1659. Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez (1599-1660). Oil on canvas, 127 x 248 cm

Cover design, Circuit of Britain Programme
Cover design, official programme issued by the Royal Aero Club for the Circuit of Britain 1010 Miles Air Race for the Second 10, 000 Daily Mail prize

Summit of the Puy de Dome and ruins of the temple Mercury, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

There is a rich land to the south - the Pan-American Mercury to the yankee manufacturers. Illustration shows the Roman god Mercury wearing a hat labeled Pan-American Union

Mercury Sea Scouts on a beach with a tripod, perhaps ready for erecting a tent. circa 1912

Three Sea Scouts in a dinghy off TS Mercury
Three Sea Scouts in a dinghy off their training ship TS Mercury, enjoying the sound of the harmonica. circa 1912

Mercury Sea Scouts rowing an open cutter. 1912

Mercury and Calypso
Mercury orders the nymph Kalypso (Calypso) to release Odysseus

Launch of Mercury Space Capsule carrying John Glenn
Launch of an Atlas Rocket bearing the Mercury Space Capsule carrying John Glenn, blasting off from Cape Kennedy. Glenn was the third American in space

Lysander Mercury and Perseus planes, with detachable bomb racks, used for army cooperation during the Second World War. Seen from four different angles. 1941

Ancient ships in a Roman seaport
An ancient Roman ships in a Roman seaport. Mercury, messenger of the gods and god of commerce, oversees proceedings from atop a column in the harbour

Dunlop Tyre Advert 18
with Hermes / Mercury... Date: 1934

FLIGHT OF THE MERCURY
THE FLIGHT OF THE MERCURY (Charles R Tanner) The space travellers from Earth make their escape from Mars in their ether-propelled spacecraft Date: 1930

Poster advertising the Sixth Paris Fair, 1909
Poster advertising the Sixth Paris Fair, from 12 to 28 February 1909, at the Grand Palais in the Champs Elysees

Poster advertising the 1939 Milan Fair, held from 12 to 27 April

Arriving in Hell
Charon brings a boatload of new residents to the infernal shores, accompanied by barking from Charon : Mercury and other deities contemplate the scene

Sailboat on Mercury
The insectoid residents of the planet Mercury will develop their own technology to navigate their chemically polluted waters : mica will be the material of choice

A City on Mercury
The inhabitants of Mercury are insectoid, and their techno- -logy is a superior form of that used by ants and bees on Earth : quartz crystals are used to build their cities

Planets - Mercury
MERCURY (Hermes) drives his chariot drawn by two carrier pigeons over Earth where merchants are trading, importing, selling, bartering, and exchanging goods

Mercury & the Woodcutter
MERCURY & THE WOODCUTTER A woodman who has lost his axe begs Jupiter to send it back; Mercury brings axes of gold & silver, but the honest woodman claims only his own

Herse and Mermes
Hermes/Mercury falls madly in love with Herse, daughter of Cecrops, and bribes her sister Aglaura to help him achieve his amorous ends

Astronaut Walter Schirra
WALTER SCHIRRA One of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, Americas first effort to put men in space

Advert / Leicester Shop
Advertising outside a Leicester shop, using all available space

Hermes / Mercury
Decoration on fairground ride

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