Scale Collection (page 8)

Daily Mail coloured map of part of the Western Front
Daily Mail coloured print of a map of part of the Western Front from Bethune and La Bassee in the North to Albert and Peronne in the South with Arras in the centre of the map

The defences of the village of Caestre
Scale 1/2500 of the defences of the village of Caestre - April 1918, showing 11 machine gun positions, trenches and barbed wire produced by 286681, E. North, 90th Field Coy, Royal Engineers

A week of food required for the German Army, WW1
A scale drawing giving an impression of the volume of food needed to feed the German Army for one week during the First World War compared to the spires of Cologne Cathedral. Date: 1914

New Zealand troops storm Le Quesnoy
New Zealand troops scale the walls of the French town of Le Quesnoy. In their last major action of the war, the New Zealanders successfully took the town that had been occupied by German forces since

French Air Force by G. H. Davis
The French Armee de l Air: latest types of fighter and bombing aircraft in large-scale production at the start of the Second World War

Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News cover - Goodwood
Front cover of the Goodwood Number of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring a jockey in the weighing room prior to a race. Date: 1928

The Extinct Animals model-room at the Crystal Palace, Sydenh
These life sized models were based on the fossilised remains of the original animals, and allowed people to imagine their true scale. Date: 31st December 1853

The San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906
Cartoon showing a globe-headed American character nursing his bandaged head; a humorous look at the effects of the San Francisco earthquake on the American economy

DURLSTON GREAT GLOBE
The Great Globe at Durlston Head, near Swanage, Dorset, England. a remarkable large scale geographical sphere of the world, created for George Burt from Portland Stone. Date: 1887

Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering silkworms from egg paper
Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering the silkworms from the egg paper using a delicate feather brush. Date: circa 1909

WW2 - The Scales of Victory - Oil and Steel Output compared between the Free Labour of the British Commonwealth and the USA and the Slave Labour of Germany and her subject nations

Russian Street Lock Seller and Locksmith, his wares hanging across his chest. Date: circa 1901

Propeller and rudder of large ship
The propeller and rudder of mid-sized vessel, with a hardy dock worker demonstrating the scale of the thing. Date: circa 1920s

Kenyan boy scaling a tree trunk on the hunt for honey Date: 1930s

Sorting and weighing tea leaves - Sri Lanka
Sorting and weighing tea leaves at the Great Western Tea Factory - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1920s

Plan of the Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi Mosque, Medina
Plan of the Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi Mosque (Prophets Mosque), Medina, Saudi Arabia. Date: circa 1905

Chancellor Balance at the Royal Mint, London
Weighing Ingots on the Chancellor Balance at the Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London Date: circa 1910s

Leroy Randle Grumman (right), 1895-1982, co-founder and President of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, shows a group of radio commentators a scale model of a Grumman Wildcat fighter

Experimental Kaman rotochute application on a standard military M2 air-drop container, centre. One-third scale model left and one-sixth scale model right. On the right is Wally Wannlund

Miles M52 full-scale mockup

A Lockheed Altair in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA

A Loening XSL-1 single-engine flying boat in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA, in October 1931. Date: 1931

A full-scale replica of Sputnik I is viewed by Isolde Dawe of Acton, London, at the UNESCO International Geophysical Year exhibition at the Royal Geographical Societys headquarters in Kensington

Langleys successful petrol-driven 1 / 4-scale model 1903
Samuel Pierpont Langleys successful petrol-driven -scale model flies over the potomac. August 8th 1903

Blue Steel MkII full-scale mock up fitted with wing-tip-mounted Bristol Siddeley ramjets

Blue Steel Viper variant full-scale mock up

Two-fifths scale Blue Steel model on handling trolley with top covers removed

Blue Steel 1 / 8th scale free-flight model
Blue Steel 1/8th scale free-flight model

Two-fifths scale Blue Steel model in free flight after launch from a Vickers Valiant

Blue Steel scale models were tested from Vickers Valiant bombers in Britain and Australia

Technicians at NACAs Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
Technicians at the NACAs Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory making final adjustments on a full-scale ramjet engine for a guided missile in the 8 by 6 foot test section of the worlds largest

Two-stage version of Black Knight
A full scale model of the second stage and re-entry head assembly in the two-stage version of Black Knight. The model is on display at an RAE open day on 9 June 1961. Date: 1961

Short S31 M-4 half-scale wooden prototype
Short S31, M-4, half-scale wooden prototype of the Stirling bomber. Powered by four Pobjoy Niagra radials

WWI Poster, Thousands have answered the nations call
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Thousands have answered the Nations Call, but you may be The One to turn the scale at a critical moment. Do you realize this? Date: 1915

Pagrus guttulatus
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Papilio palinurus, emerald swallowtail
SEM image of an emerald swallowtails wing

Artogeia napi, green-veined white
SEM image of the wing of a Artogeia napi, green-veined white butterfly

Pieris rapae, small white
SEM image of the wing of a small white butterfly

Papilio machaon, old world swallowtail
SEM image of Papilio machaon wing

Pollicipes mitella
These barnacles were collected by Hugh Cuming who is mostly known for collecting shells. He gave Darwin his barnacle collection to study

Papilio palinurus, emerald swallowtail
SEM image of an emerald swallowtails wing

Arapaimo gigas, giant arapaimo
Specimen of the giant arapaimo (Arapaimo gigas), the worlds largest fresh water fish growing up to 5m long. Found in Brazil, Guyana and Peru

Fossilised Mesturus verrucosus
Fossilised fish from upper Jurassic lithographic limestone, Eichstadt, Germany. 150 million years ago

Plate 16 from Brian Hodgsons watercolour collection
Plate 16, watercolour by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894) from his collection of reptiles, fish, mammals and birds of Nepal

LS Plate 173 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 167 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 177 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Manidae manis, pangolin
LS Plate 82 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856

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