Atomic Gallery
Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 59 pictures in our Atomic collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
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1957 nuclear test: Fall-out
Fallout: The sinister and prolonged after-effect of nuclear explosions: a drawing illustrating some characteristics of this haunting phenomenon.An illustration by special Illustrated London News artist G.H Davis, with the cooperation of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, showing the dangers of nuclear fall-out. Britain's first nuclear tests in May 1957 prompted fears about the long term effects of the explosions on human life. Possible dangers listed here include radio-active dust and particles in rain, and the contamination of fish stocks.
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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Splitting of the Atom - apparatus used by Dr J D Cockcroft
Dr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus, which appears to break up into two helium nuclei. Physicists Cockcroft and E T S Walton developed the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator to artificially accelerate atomic particles to high energies, to enable them to observe the results of splitting the atom. At the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
1932
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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Hiroshima - re-building after WWII
Reconstruction of Aioi Bridge and Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce & Industry Hall, Hiroshima, Japan. The epicentre of the explision caused by the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945 was close to this location, completely destroying the Bridge rail and rendering the pavements as if 'dug up from underground'. Date: circa 1950
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
