Rocket Collection (#5)

Congreve rocket making process
A monkey press, or small pile driver, as used for filling Congreve rockets Date: 1855

WW2 - Prams with possessions return with Evacuees going home
WW2 - Prams containing possessions return to Euston, London, following Evacuees heading home after the passing of the V1 and V2 rocket attack scare - September 1944. Date: 1944

Bristol Siddeley Gamma Mk201 rocket engine showing the four swivelling combustion chambers

Crashed V-1 Flying Bomb; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a French civilian (left) and a Canadian Sergeant examining a crashed German V-1 Flying Bomb rocket, France, 1944

THE SHOT INTO INFINITY (Otto Willi Gail) Space voyagers from Earth spacewalk around the Moon Rocket

Passenger Rocketship
Passenger-Carrying Space Rocket

Ufos / Rome, Italy
Unnamed witnesses report a metallic UFO which takes off vertically like a rocket

When we go to the moon by rocket - 1929 vision of space
A 1929 impression of space exploration with a a rocket hovering over the lunar surface. Forty years later, this dream would become a reality. Date: 1929

WW2 - Rocket Gun Battery in action
Photograph, 1941 (c): rocket gun battery in action. The trail of scores of rockets shooting towards the sky and bursting. Associated with World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)

Cartoon, The Gaiety Rocket, Pinero
Cartoon, The Gaiety Rocket, with a caricature of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English actor, playwright and stage director, whose play, The Rocket

Gentleman, lady & baby pose on unknown motorcycle
Gentleman, lady & baby pose for photograph on unknown vintage motorcycle & sidecar

Susi - with white flag and fireworks
Susi - with white flag -- Join My Anti-Fireworks Demo! 1950s

Motorbike and rocket-style sidecar, with father and daughter. circa 1930s

Space Ship of 1933
A giant rocket-ship of days to come... Date: 1933

Cattaneos Rocket Plane
Italian pilot Cattaneo tests his rocket-powered monoplane. Date: 1932

Rockets Fired from Boats
Congreve rockets being fired from men-of-war boats, to attack enemy coastlines, the purpose for which William Congreve originally developed his rocket in 1804 Date: 1827

Annihilator rocket leaving for Mars
The Annihilator rocket leaves Earth for Mars Date: 1910

De Havilland DH98 Mosquito FBIV being armed with 3-inch rocket projectiles, Bamff, Scotland, Feb 1945

Rocket or arugula, Brassica eruca.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

Wild rocket or arugula, Eruca sativa, Brassica eruca.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

Space rocket to the Moon 1946
Experiments with rockets by America and British Governments to set up a rocket-testing range in Australia caused a lot of discussion by the general public to the possibility of sending man by rocket

Rescue following V2 rocket attack, Manor Park, London, WW2
Rescue of a woman following a V2 rocket attack in Manor Park. Although many rescues took place, hundreds of Londoners died in these attacks, launched in the latter stages of WW2

SOS Rocket Stick Trenches, Mount Sorrel
SOS Rocket Stick. Trenches, Mount Sorrel. NOTICE ON BOARD - Rocket Stand Stick. Please do not interfere with this. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance

Hales Rocket Factory, Rotherhithe
Hales Rocket Factory, at Rotherhithe Date: 1853

Stephensons Rocket with a George V class engine
An interesting comparison: a full sized model of Stephensons Rocket(originally built in 1829), alongside an engine of the George the Fifth class(construction of which ceased in 1915)

Flights into the Future - technicians inspecting space ship
Technicians making a final inspection of a space ship, before it makes its flight to the moon - a futuristic prediction of fiction which will one day be fact

Rockets and flying bombs by G. H. Davis
Rockets and flying bombs as seaborne weapons of future navies. How wireless-controlled robot projectiles may be carried and operated by capital ships. 1945

British soldier in trench with signal rockets, WW1
A British soldier in a trench on the Western Front in France during World War One, with rockets used for signalling. Date: circa 1916

Scene on the Humber during rain by G. H. Davis
With our naval artist at Grimsby. The biter bit -- a lively scene on the Humber during the rain, with a rocket exploding in the sky. Scene observed by G. H. Davis during manoeuvres. Date: 25 July 1913

Air battles at 500 mph by G. H. Davis
Air battles at 500 miles an hour: possibilities of the new jet- and rocket-propelled aircraft. A pictorial outline of some problems likely to face pilots

RAF and Army cooperate against enemy by G. H. Davis
Rocket typhoons versus German tanks: how the RAF and the Army cooperate in smashing enemy armour during the Second World War

Apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck
Various apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck. A Dennetts rocket line is shown both in action and arranged for firing, as well as and the landing of a crew using the breeches buoy

Warship with guided missiles by G. H. Davis
The shape of ships to come: a warship armed with guided missiles and protected against radioactivity. An artists impression of a battleship of the future

Rocket firing tests by G. H. Davis
Firing rockets across half a continent: the new V2 test range. The UK-Australian experimental guided missiles range, with 1200 miles from firing point to coastline

German military rocket camera, WW1
A German military rocket camera with a Zeiss lens being fired into the air in the early weeks of the First World War. It was designed to map enemy territory to facilitate invasion

Europe to America in 45 minutes by G. H. Davis
Not a Wellsian fantasy, but an actual project in preparation by Germany: Europe to America in 45 minutes. Drawings of a long-range rocket designed in Germany during the Second World War

The volunteer life brigade at work : life saving at sea
The late storm: the volunteer life brigade at work. Rocket life-saving apparatus kept ready for use whereby a rocket is fired to throw a line over the ship in trouble from the shore

Royal Aircraft Establishment model display of the Skylar?
Royal Aircraft Establishment model display of the Skylark high-altitude research rocket at the 1957 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 September

Dassault Mirage III 001 with a SEPR rocket pack added

Dassault Mirage I modified to take a SEPR 66 rocket motor under the rear fuselage

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